The music industry is a pool of talented artists, old and new, with all the bragging virtues of superstardom, star quality, indispensable talent and overall charisma. Staying in the spotlight of fame had been an arduous task and those who have made it will surely relay some ghostly stories of just sticking in there.
Some artists have had the best times of their career within a week, a month, a year, some leaned on risky comebacks and some just hit that plateau wherein attempts are proven futile. But even after their shine dimmed, some stars are still worthy to remember.
Amidst their absence on the popular music scene, the indelible mark on our memories would be enough to enjoy them again. Take Craig David as a perfect example.
Craig David had been an influential R&B singer almost a decade and a half year ago. After his first album release in August 2000, Craig David’s rocking our radio and televisions as if he’s been the singer that we’ve all been waiting for.
With his first hit Fill Me In, Craig David had captured the hearts and ears of millions of listeners worldwide and the beat that has been supplying had been continued up to his last album.
The sad song had immediately topped the UK Hit Charts and is the first string of Top 10s that David had accumulated on his Born To Do It album. Selling for a whopping 8 million copies worldwide, his debut album is so huge that popularity had never been a slippery sap for David. Suitably enough, Born To Do It had ranked second to Michael Jackson’s Thriller as the Greatest Album of All Time on an MTV Poll in April of 2009.
Two years after the enormous success of his first album, Slicker Than Your Average is an appropriate and timely follow-up. Four singles from the album had gone straight as Number 1 Hits on UK Music Charts. This second venture in solidifying his career includes music such as What’s Your Flava? And Rise and Fall which received a considerable amount of airplay and had been patronized globally.
After signing up with music mogul Warner Music, Craig never stopped from being prolific on his craft by turning in his third album, The Story Goes in 2005. A relationship-inclined song such as Don’t Love You No More and 7 Days had yet again dominated the charts and had been his longest running singles to stay on top of the music chain. A ballad is included in this album entitled Unbelievable, which is so mushy, and different of the usual upbeat Craig David hits formerly popularized.
His fourth studio album entitled Trust Me had received mixed reviews from the audience being dubbed as his weakest album of his entire career. While some of the tracks like Hot Stuff and 6 of 1 Thing had ended up as chart toppers, the whole vibe of this album in general is straying from what Craig David is known for—the groove and the megalomania for sensuality.
The last two known albums of Craig David before he went on lie-low are Greatest Hits (2008) and Signed Sealed Delivered (2010). Currently, Craig David is under a huge music conglomerate, Universal Music Publishing Group and fans from all over the world that have been infected by the Craig David potion is waiting for another venture through a come-back album.
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