Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are a British jazz funk and acid jazz band fronted by lead singer Jay Kay. They were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement. Their best known track is "Virtual Insanity", which won four awards at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. Jamiroquai have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1998.

The original band was Jay Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender, Nick Van Gelderand Wallis Buchanan. The lineup of the band has changed several times, and the longest serving and now core members of the band are lead singer and songwriter Jason "Jay" Kay and drummer Derrick McKenzie.

Jamiroquai's first single, "When You Gonna Learn", was released in 1992. The first album, Emergency on Planet Earth was released in 1993. It was followed in 1994 by The Return of the Space Cowboy. The single "Space Cowboy" gained notice on the charts and in club rotation.

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, "Virtual Insanity" and "Cosmic Girl". The success of "Virtual Insanity" was due in part to its Jonathan Glazer-directed video, which featured Kay's dance moves and some physics-defying images. At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for "Virtual Insanity" won four awards; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video.

In 1998, Jamiroquai released "Deeper Underground", the first single from their fourth studio album, Synkronized, which also appeared in the soundtrack for the 1998 movie Godzilla. This was followed by their fifth album, A Funk Odyssey, in 2001, and the first single, "Little L", reached #1 in many charts worldwide becoming their best dance hit.

In 2003, Jamiroquai compiled and mixed a DJ mix album which includes tracks from The Pointer Sisters, The Commodores, Johnny "Hammond" Smith and Johnny "Guitar" Watson.

Their sixth album, Dynamite, was released in June 2005 and reached #3 on the UK charts. Singles included "Feels Just Like It Should", "Seven Days in Sunny June", and "(Don't) Give Hate A Chance".

Jamiroquai released a greatest hits collection, High Times: Singles 1992-2006 in November 2006. The album reached the number 1 spot in the UK album chart after its first week of release. The album featured two new tracks, "Runaway" and "Radio".

In October 2006, Jamiroquai recorded a live session for Live from Abbey Road at Abbey Road Studios.

In November 2010, they released their long anticipated seventh album, Rock Dust Light Star, but the American release was delay until April 2012 in a double vinyl LP/CD bundle.