The Scatman because I stutter,' he explains. People to never let a perceived problem or disability hold them back. He was a child, Larkin hopes that the Scatman story will encourage young As someone who has struggled with a stuttering problem since One of Larkin's greatest joys is the impact his music has on impressionable
"To have young people all over the world going 'ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop' is as Kids screamed for five minutes straight, I couldn't start the song," he recounted. Scatman John was given the 'Artist of the Year' award in Japan, has received the Golden Europa award for single sales, the Echo Award in Europe for 'cross-over artist of the year', and an MTV Europe Music Award in the Best Male Artist Category,Īlongside Michael Jackson, Dr. The debut album of the same name, released in the summer of 1995, sold more than 3 million copies. The follow-up single, Scatman's World, was released in 1995 and scanned sales of well over a million copies. A feminine version was also done by a project called Scatgirl. Scatman was covered by Boys On Scat, by the Spanish project Gemini and by the Japanese band The Axel Boys Quartet. Zoot-suited Scatman John exploded on the American music scene with his new single Everybody Jam!, released this summer on Logic Records /BMG. 1 singles in almost every country in the world, counts 14 gold and 18 platinum records to his credit, and even had his image imprinted upon millions of Coke cans across Europe. He sold eight million CD's, has had two No. It was the second most sold single in France for the year 1995. The song, which was released in the US as a CD single off RCA Records' Club Cutz dance compilation and can be heard on the soundtrack of the soon-to-be-released Touchstone Pictures film Nothing To Lose starring Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence, has sold more than two million copies world-wide to date. With the help of producers Antonio Catania and Ingo Kays, the first song, Scatman (Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop), was completed and just weeks later skyrocketed to No. New, Larkin spent six hours in a recording studio, unsure what the finished product would sound like. One afternoon, his agent called and proposed the concept of 'scat-rap'.
The story of his success begins back in the summer of 1994 when John Larkin (Scatman's real name) was performing at the Alexandra Hotel in Norway. Combining traditional scat singing with a driving dance beat blending dance-pop, hip-hop and jazz influences (he used to work with stars of jazz such as Al Jarreau, Ella Fitzgerald and Charlie Parker), Scatman John reached the top of the European and Japanese charts with the singles Scatman (Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) and Scatman's World. End of 1994, everything changed : his unique style of 'scat-rap' took the world by storm. He was for years content making a living as a singer-pianist in the grand hotels of Europe. John Larkin was born on March 13th 1942 in El Monte, California.
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