Adriana Kaegi and at 18 moved to New York City to learn the art of entertainment. She co-founded the band Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American musical group created and led by August Darnell. Its music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular "American and Latin American, South American, Caribbean, Trinidadian, Calloway" and conceptually inspired by the big band era...

 together with (ex husband) August Darnell and Coati Mundi

Coati Mundi

Coati Mundi is the stage name of American musician Andy Hernandez, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts. He scored the Top 40 UK hit "Me No Pop I" in 1981, just before the release of Tropical Gangsters...

 (both formerly of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was a big band and swing influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York. They are best known for their #1 US dance hit, "Cherchez La Femme"/C'est si bon, from their self-titled debut album....

).

Her contribution helped land the British Music Award for Best International Live Act and such a-list appearances with the band as The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, the movie Against All Odds, the presidential inauguration of George Bush Sr., a benefit hosted by Princess Diana (Dr. Bernardo), the 40th anniversary of the UN, a performance at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 with Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....

.
Adriana also sang with U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

, Miguel Bosé

Miguel Bosé

Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...

, Towa Tei

Towa Tei

is a DJ, artist and record producer in Yokahoma, Japan.Tōwa debuted as a member of Deee-Lite, from the U.S. label Elektra Records in 1990, and shot to fame via their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart"...

, Vodka Collins

Vodka Collins

Vodka Collins is a Tokyo based Japanese-American rock band, formed in 1971. The core band members are drummer Hiroshi Oguchi , singer-guitarist Alan Merrill, singer-guitarist Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu and bassist Take Yokouchi...

 and created the all girl band Boomerang.
Adriana has recently made a memoir/documentary film about her journey with that band, and in 2009 released her first solo CD Tag.

Adriana Kaegi's Dear Addy, Digital Media company, was an early adaptor of video content for the web. Adriana conceived, produced and hosted one of the first interactive live webcast

Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...

s from New York's Knitting Factory called "Cyber Cabaret" ("Best live web cast" Yahoo and C/Net) in 1998, then moved on to becoming a pioneer in the crossover success of music, style and technology, producing and promoting hundreds of live and on-demand webcasts for major fashion brands and magazines such as Style

Style (magazine)

Style was an iconic South African women's magazine that was founded in the 1980s and published by Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Limited. In late 2006, it was announced that the magazine would be discontinued. The magazine has often been associated with a Kugel readership....

 and Elle

Elle (magazine)

Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...

 covering runway shows from New York, Paris and Milan, which earned Kaegi the nickname of "Queen of Stream".
After a brief absence following the .com crash, Dear Addy has re-emerged producing and promoting branded videos for clients, tastefully weaving PR and commerce into content.

Discography

• Me No Pop I (12") Antilles 1980
• Off the Coast of Me
  Off the Coast of Me
  -Personnel:* Bass - Tommy Browder* Drums - Winston Grennan* Guitar - Franz Krauns* Percussion - Andrew Lloyd* Piano - Peter Schott* Vibes - Coati Mundi* Vocals - Adriana Kaegi, Brooksie Wells, Fonda Rae, Kid Creole, Lourdes Cotto...
  
   (LP, album) ZE Records, Island Records 1980
• Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
  Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
  -Personnel:* Kid Creole* Coati Mundi* Peter Schott* Marc Mazur* Carol Colman* Andrew Lloyd* Winston Grennon* Yogi Horton* Lori Eastside* Adriana Kaegi* Cheryl Poirier* Don Arnone* Dutch Robinson* Beverly Britton Brown* Don Hamilton...
  
   (LP, album) Schweinerei ZE Records, Island Records 1981
• Don't Take My Coconuts (Album) (3 versions) EMI America 1983
• Doppelganger
  Doppelganger (Kid Creole and the Coconuts album)
  -Personnel:* The Boys In The Band - Adriana Kaegi, Bongo Eddie, Carol Colman, Charles Lagond, Cheryl Poirier, Coati Mundi, Dave Span, Ken Fradley, Kid Creole, Lee Robertson, Mark Mazur, Peter Schott, Taryn Hagey...
  
  (album) (2 versions) Island Records ... 1983
• War (Album) (44 versions) Red Light, Surrender` Island Records ... 1983
• Boomerang (2 versions) Atlantic 1986
• These Boots Are Made For Walkin (12") Night Train (Vocal / L... Atlantic 1986
• When The Phone Stops Ringing (12", Maxi) Atlantic, WEA 1986
• New York At Dawn (CD, Album) Other Guys EMI USA, Toshiba EMI Ltd 1990
• Private Waters In The Great Divide (CD, album) CBS 1990
• Sound Museum (album) (3 versions) Tamilano EastWest Japan ... 1997
• Tag, dear addy, 2009

External links

• "Adriana Kaegi: 'The Queen of Stream'", Time Out, Adrienne Weinfeld-Berg
• "Adriana Kaegi: rock star, digital media producer, videoblogger", May 20, 2008
• Dear Addy website
• Artist website
• Adriana Kaegi performs at the Poolside Lawn party
• The Early Days » Cheryl Poirier, Roni Griffith and Adriana Kaegi, Florida 1980