Sonia Dada is a Chicago-based rock

Rock music

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Soul music

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/rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

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 band, which tours with anywhere from six to eight members. The band formed in 1990, when founding member Daniel Pritzker

Daniel Pritzker

Daniel Pritzker, grandson of A. N. Pritzker and son of Jay Pritzker, is a professional musician living in Kentfield, California. Daniel is a 1981 graduate of Tufts University and earned a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Law School in 1986....

 heard three future members (Michael Scott, Paris Delane, and Sam Hogan) singing in a subway station. Sonia Dada has become a mainstay of the Chicago musical scene in the years since, incorporating elements of rock, soul, gospel

Gospel music

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, and funk.

Their 1992 debut album, Sonia Dada, produced a minor radio hit, "You Don't Treat Me No Good", and sold more than 100,000 copies. The album peaked at #29 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart in 1993. In 1994, the band's tour saw them opening for the group Traffic

Traffic (band)

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, as well as headlining an extremely successful Australian tour. The album reached #1 on the Australian ARIA

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 charts and was the #13 highest selling album for the year of 1993. The single "You Don't Treat Me No Good" was a #1 hit and the #3 highest selling single for the same year, while "You Aint Thinking (About Me)" was #40. However, they are known primarily as a one-hit wonder there.

Since then, Sonia Dada has released four studio albums and a live album. Their 2004 release, Test Pattern, was released in a deluxe edition with a bonus DVD containing short films by Jeth Weinrich

Jeth Weinrich

Jeth Weinrich is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, music video, and commercial director.- Early life :Weinrich grew up in Calgary, Alberta, attended Parsons School of Design, and played for the Calgary Colts of the Canadian Junior Football League, the farm league for the CFL, for two years...

.

Members

• Daniel Pritzker
  Daniel Pritzker
  Daniel Pritzker, grandson of A. N. Pritzker and son of Jay Pritzker, is a professional musician living in Kentfield, California. Daniel is a 1981 graduate of Tufts University and earned a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Law School in 1986....
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Michael Scott - vocals
  Singing
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• Paris Delane - vocals
• Sam Hogan - vocals
• Shawn Christopher
  Shawn Christopher
  Shawn Christopher is a female African American dance music singer from Chicago, Illinois.-Career:She was a touring backing vocalist for R&B singer Chaka Khan from 1982 to 1985. She is also a former member of the industrial dance band known as My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and sang with the...
  
    - vocals
• Dave Resnik - guitar
  Guitar
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• Phil Miller - guitar
  Guitar
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• Erik Scott - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Hank Guaglianone - drums
  Drum kit
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• Larry Beers - drums
  Drum kit
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• Chris "Hambone" Cameron - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Ron Schwartz - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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   & production
  Record producer
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• Scott Steiner - audio engineer

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		AUS ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	NZ	US Heat Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
1992	Sonia Dada Sonia Dada (album) Sonia Dada is the first full-length album from Sonia Dada, released in 1992 on Chameleon Records. It was re-released with two extra tracks in 1994 on Calliope Records; one of these tracks, "Paradise", would also be included on the 1998 album My Secret Life.The album reached #1 on the Australian... Release date: September 22, 1992 Label: Chameleon Records	2	17	29
1995	A Day at the Beach A Day at the Beach (album) A Day at the Beach is the second LP by Chicago group Sonia Dada.-Track listing:Sources: Official Site, Allmusic... Release date: March 21, 1995 Label: Capricorn Records Capricorn Records Capricorn Records was an independent record label which was launched by Phil Walden, Alan Walden, and Frank Fenter in 1969 in Macon, Georgia.-First Incarnation:...	—	—	—
1998	My Secret Life Release date: June 9, 1998 Label: Calliope Records	—	—	—
2002	Barefootsoul Barefootsoul - Track listing :#"Better Brains"#"Baby Woke Up"#"Raise the Roofbeam"#"Angel"#"Daisy"#"Cry"#"Louise"#"I Saw Sister Stealing"#"Happy Together"#"Sometimes"... Release date: August 20, 2002 Label: Calliope Records	—	—	—
2004	Test Pattern Test Pattern (album) Test Pattern is an album by Sonia Dada released in 2004 on Razor & Tie Records. The album was released in a gatefold CD/DVD packaging featuring a half-hour short film by Jeth Weinrich, as well as an accompanying montage for the entire album.... Release date: June 22, 2004 Label: Razor & Tie Razor & Tie Razor & Tie is a New York-based corporation founded in 1990 by Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam. The company encompasses a record label with major label distribution , a home video company, a media buying company, a music publishing business, a marketing, promotion and sales team, and a direct...	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Year	Album details
1999	Lay Down and Love It Live Lay Down and Love It Live Lay Down and Love It Live is the first live album by Sonia Dada. The album was released in 1999 on Calliope Records, and was reissued in 2002 by Razor & Tie... Release date: October 12, 1999 Label: Calliope Records

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
		AUS ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	NZ
1992	"You Don't Treat Me No Good You Don't Treat Me No Good "You Don't Treat Me No Good" is the title of a song recorded by the American soul group Sonia Dada. Released in 1992, the song was a number-one hit in Australia, spending four weeks at the top of the ARIA Charts. Eighteen years later, country music singer Jerrod Niemann released a cover version... "	1	2	Sonia Dada
1993	"You Ain't Thinking (About Me)"	3	19
	"The Edge of the World"	—	—
	"New York City"	—	—
1999	"I Want to Take You Higher I Want to Take You Higher "I Want to Take You Higher" is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone, the B-side to their Top 30 hit Stand!". Unlike most of the other tracks on the Stand! album, "I Want to Take You Higher" is not a message song; instead, it is simply dedicated to music and the feeling one... "	—	—	Lay Down and Love It Live
2002	"Baby Woke Up"	—	—	Barefootsoul
2005	"Old Bones"	—	—	Test Pattern
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year	Video
1993	"You Don't Treat Me No Good"
1993	"You Ain't Thinking (ABout Me)"