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Nu Shooz is an American Freestyle-R&B-Dance group fronted by husband-and-wife team of John Smith and Valerie Day, based in Portland, Oregon. The Shooz released four albums in the U.S. during the 1980s. Their third album ''Poolside'', brought the group's sound to a wider audience. ==Career== Nu Shooz formed in 1979 in a lineup that originally featured 12 members. This incarnation of the group released its debut album, ''Can't Turn It Off'', in 1982. Although the album saw limited success, the band continued on, paring its lineup down to seven members over the next several years. Nu Shooz originally released the single "I Can't Wait" in Portland in April 1985 on Poolside Records. The original recording was done at Cascade Recording in Portland in the fall of 1984 and was also featured on the band's sparsely distributed second album, ''Tha's Right'', in 1985.〔(Nu Shooz- ''Tha's Right'' album information @nushoozmusic.com ) Retrieved 12-3-2011.〕 "I Can't Wait" was a big hit on Portland radio stations at the time, but they were turned down by every major label. A copy of the song made it to the Netherlands, where it was remixed by Peter Slaghuis. This version is known as the 'Dutch Mix.' The remix came back into the United States as an import on Dutch label Injection Records. It was this version that got the attention of Atlantic Records, which signed the band to a contract in January 1986.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obscure R&B band Nu Shooz morphed into synth-pop stars )〕 Nu Shooz scored two major pop/R&B/dance hits. "I Can't Wait" climbed to #2 on the R&B charts and #3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in June 1986 and spent 15 weeks in the Top 40, and it also hit #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart earlier that year. Its follow-up, "Point of No Return," was remixed by Shep Pettibone and also topped the dance chart in September 1986; the song peaked at #28 on the Hot 100 and #35 on the R&B charts. Both singles were on the album ''Poolside'', which charted on ''Billboards 200 chart at #27, and sold a half million copies in the U.S., garnering gold record RIAA certification on October 2, 1986. In 1987, Nu Shooz was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best New Artist category, based on its breakthrough success the previous year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GRAMMY NOMINATIONS: HIGHS AND LOWS : Winwood, Gabriel and Simon Garner Most Nominations )〕 The group lost to Bruce Hornsby & the Range; the other nominees that year were Glass Tiger, Simply Red, and Timbuk3. In 1988, the band released the album ''Told'' U ''So'', which had its final chart entries to date: "Should I Say Yes?" hit #17 on the R&B charts and #41 on the Hot 100, while the track "Are You Lookin' For Somebody Nu" topped out at #2 on the dance charts. The album itself peaked on the Billboard 200 to #93 and was only an overall success in the urban market. "Time Will Tell" was supposed to be the first single from the third album for Atlantic, which was titled ''Eat & Run'', but the album was never released. In 2007, Nu Shooz was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2009 and Earlier )〕 Also that year Smith and Day formed a spin-off band called Nu Shooz Orchestra with a sound they called "Jazz-Pop-Cinema".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nu Shooz: ‘A record label is good at one thing - selling pieces of plastic’ )〕 They released one album, ''Pandora's Box'', in 2010 along with music videos for the songs "Spy vs Spy," (directed by Mike Wellins) and "Right Before My Eyes" (animated by Smith and Day’s son Malcolm Smith.)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=You Again?: Nu Shooz Orchestra, "Pandora's Box" )〕 The following year "I Can't Wait" was sampled in the hit song "Buzzin'" by Mann.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mann )〕 In 2012, the band released ''Kung Pao Kitchen'', a return to their 80's roots. A year later they put the live group back together for the first time in 20 years and joined the 80's era tour Super Freestyle Explosion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nu Shooz ‘Can’t Wait’ for Super Freestyle Explosion in Ontario )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Super Freestyle Explosion with Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, Exposé, Debbie Deb, Shannon, Trinere, Johnny O, Nu Shooz, Pretty Poison, Stacey Q at HP Pavilion - San Jose, California - 6/29/13 (Concert Review) )〕 A cover of "I Can't Wait", performed by Icona Pop and produced by Questlove, was used in a 2015 series of Target commercials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hear Icona Pop and ?uestlove’s Cover of Nu Shooz’s ‘I Can’t Wait’ )〕 Nu Shooz continues to record and perform.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nu Shooz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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