“I know he’s tried to reach out to me, but I’m not going to take his phone call,” he says. While Color Me Badd was the toast of the urban world in 1991, the interracial quartet was all but forgotten a few years later. Calderon would not discuss whether the pair had even gotten physical before, but he says for now he’s not taking Abrams’ calls. The urban contemporary market can be incredibly fickle.
What do I do next?'” By the time he was finished apologizing to and thanking the crowd, Abrams had left the building and when Calderon walked backstage he realized his neck and back were really sore.Īfter a trip to the hospital to get some X-rays, he says he began to feel like he had whiplash, and notes that he’s still sore several days later. I’m thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, what just happened?’ And I go into shock because I’m in front of all these people and this just happened. After an hour, just as he was finishing “I Wanna Sex You Up” and saying his goodbyes to the crowd, unbeknownst to him, Abrams came back on stage and “all of a sudden he shoves me and blindsides me and I’m on the ground. “This was a first.” Calderon says there have been times when Abrams has not shown up for a gig or decided to leave, forcing him to do a show solo, as well as times when he says Abrams has performed while intoxicated.īy the third song, Calderon, 47, realized he’d probably have to do the whole gig by himself with just the dancers. The group sold 8.8 million records worldwide. The original members of the group were Bryan Abrams (born November 16, 1969) Mark Calderon (born September 27, 1970) Sam Watters (born July 23, 1970) and Kevin Thornton (born June 17, 1969). “He has never come on stage and left and then never came back,” says Calderon. Color Me Badd was an R&B vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma. But once he realized Abrams was gone, he figured it was to get a towel or speak to the sound engineer. The MTV cartoon character was commenting on Color Me Badd, a band from Oklahoma City’s Northwest Classen High School hitting it big with I Wanna Sex You Up in 1991. on saturday night (july 21) when he was blindsided by longtime bandmate (and high. He didn’t notice, however, that his partner had walked off the stage. the color me badd singer was wrapping up a show by his vocal group at the vine at del lago casino in tyre, n.y. Previously, Mark was a Music at Color Me Badd. Color Me Badd broke up in 1998 before reuniting in 2010, with various lineups since. Mark Calderon is a Consultant at Music Noises based in Pontiac, Michigan. The duo hit the stage for the first song, “All 4 Love,” and Calderon noticed that Abrams was flubbing the lyrics, which concerned him. Color Me Badd is an American contemporary R&B group that was formed in 1985 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Bryan Abrams (born November 16, 1969), tenor Mark Calderon (born September 27, 1970), second tenor Sam Watters (born July 23, 1970) and baritone Kevin Thornton (born June 17, 1969).