Cringe of the day
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- kingsteven6
This video has been floating around for years, a 2008 cover of One Vision by Queen by mysterious freerunning, hiphop dancing, vocalist extraordinaire Tigriss. A few of her videos can be found online that showcase her vocal talents but One Vision is the cringe classic that just keeps giving.
I showed the video to a friend a few nights ago and he posed the question 'where is she from?' I’d always assumed American or Canadian. so last night I went on a deep dive with the wayback machine, and found a press release from her management:
"Tigriss is a new breed of British recording artist, songwriter, musician and performer. She invents, combines and corrupts many different music genres, arts, dance and street cultures including Freerunning to create a unique and exciting sound and mind-blowing stage performance never seen before! Tigriss is a woman with passion, originality, style and an inexhaustible reservoir of determination, commitment and energy."
So she's British, and her website is insane, her management seems unhinged and promoting her from every angle... There's even a Tigriss web comic :-|
I needed to find out more...
This is the only live footage of Tigriss, pulling out all the stops for a Street Sounds reunion event a Scala night club London:
Street Sounds was run by an entrepreneurial Tory called Morgan Khan who very much modelled himself and his company on Richard Branson's Virgin success 10 years earlier. It was a label in the UK that made it's name in the early 80s. It was an important label culturally because hiphop where it was creating a bigger buzz in Europe than domestically and Kahn realised that Street Sounds could compile the expensive import 12" singles in to affordable LPs for the European market. In hindsight Kahn is about as cringe as it gets and the further you dig you find this is a man with no discernible taste - with no qualms about cashing in on existing street culture. Here's an entire documentary on Kahn presented by Hugh Laurie, that even at the time struggles to paint him in a good light.
Street sounds failed in 1988 but was revived a number of times by Kahn and exists today as an online radio station.
On LinkedIn one of the only employees in this later period is Kahn's assistant from 2004 - 2012, I’m not going to dox the poor woman but a quick google of her name brought up her insta and it's clearly Tigriss, now working quite high up music rights management for Universal Music Group. She’s from Chelmsford, Essex and seems to have retired from singing in 2012 with a solo single under her own name, and appears totally normal and well adjusted. Obviously Tigriss is the result of a very young talented individual taken on a ride and being advised by Morgan Khan, who is really just one of the oddest wee men to have ever lived.
RIP Tigriss, probably for the best
- BrutalfulPhanLo
- She’ll be an NFT soonmonospaced
- I take it this was the nadir of Laurie's career?Nairn
- Interesting that they think that London was the 'hip hop capital of the world' at that point. Is there anything to that? it seems a stretch to my ignant eyeNairn
- Something about the last vid in this post reminded me of this https://youtu.be/uAK…mort_
- She died?drgs
- ughdasohr
- i've heard it exploded, so 82, 83 all of a sudden clubs were just playing hiphop. so i imagine it must have seemed that way... it probably took longer in the USkingsteven
- because y'know...kingsteven
- jesus, i fucked that morgan khan paragraph up with a last minute copy/paste hand didn't realise :Dkingsteven
- i have a friend noel that was in the midst during the 6 year transition from punk to hiphop to house https://www.redbullm…kingsteven
- he must have some stories about khan, noel and his brother maurice were definitely on the cutting edge of thingskingsteven
- @drgs, just the characterkingsteven
- @kingsteven I've been in Noels company a few times, but it was a fairly drunken night out. He was really sound. He's mates with my friend RobPhanLo
- This is fucking fantastic.garbage
- heh, noel is great. he gets about... i just heard he'd moved back here recently then someone else told me he's moving away again.kingsteven
- I don't like her music, so I quickly stopped reading. She may be talented but I'm not sure it's music related. Extremely fuckable tho.cherub
- @cherub welcome to the cringe threadkingsteven
- This is curious timing:
https://www.theguard…Nairn - wow, yeah. i actually realised that noel i mentioned above mixed some of the electro series that launched his success. but i loved that imagination recordkingsteven
- i have it and stakker humanoid on vinyl and didn't know his involvement. i think the thing that kahn maybe fails to recognise is that he's incredibly uncool :)kingsteven
- Every time this comes up in my feed, I have to re-listen to the last videodrgs