Artist description Canada's top charting indie band. Loads of support from Canadian radio & fans.

Music Style Pop/Rock/R&B

Musical Influences Beatles/Motown/Aretha

Similar Artists Janis Joplin, Stax/Volt artists, Annie Lennox, Motown, The Commitments on acid....

Artist History The Groove Kings came out of nowhere - without the aid of a recordcompany- to put a song on the International pop charts for six months.The Groove Kings are a Montreal-based band led by guitarist/composer Howard Forman (former Muscle Shoals session player)and lead singer Irene Marc (Cirque de Soleil lead and session singer).And you should know that the Groove Kings have 2 CD's, their first self-titled debut, and "Into the Groove Age".

Group Members Irene Marc, Howard Forman

Instruments R&B all dressed. Rhythm section, horns

Albums The Groove Kings, Into The Groove Age

Press Reviews "Amid the post-Nirvanic squalor (comes) The Groove Kings' polished R&B groove, highlighted by singer Irene Marc's powerful, soulful voice...avid listener response from across the country is undeniable. . ."-Montreal Mirror, QCForman has a feel for classic soul and R&B forms and some of the stronger songs here,...funky Burn It Down or Moon To Moon, Sun To Sun, wouldn't sound out of place on a Stax or Atlantic album from the late 1960s" -The Globe and Mail newspaper

Location Montreal, Quebec - Canada

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