Swoop (Australian band)
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Swoop was an Australia
n seven-piece rock, funk and disco band established in the late 1980s by Joshua Beagley and Roland Kapferer.. Fiona Ta'akimoeaka joined the band performing as lead vocalist as well as drummer Calvin Welch and keyboard player Tetsushi. After Ta'akimoeaka left the band, Rebekah Jane joined the group as lead vocalist.
Swoop achieved their highest levels of popularity during the years 1994 and 1995. The largest selling, and arguably most popular single for Swoop was the song "Apple Eyes". Swoop was signed to the Australian publishing firm, Mushroom Records. The band continued together into the late 1990s.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n seven-piece rock, funk and disco band established in the late 1980s by Joshua Beagley and Roland Kapferer.. Fiona Ta'akimoeaka joined the band performing as lead vocalist as well as drummer Calvin Welch and keyboard player Tetsushi. After Ta'akimoeaka left the band, Rebekah Jane joined the group as lead vocalist.
Swoop achieved their highest levels of popularity during the years 1994 and 1995. The largest selling, and arguably most popular single for Swoop was the song "Apple Eyes". Swoop was signed to the Australian publishing firm, Mushroom Records. The band continued together into the late 1990s.
Albums
- Thriller
- The Woxo Principle (Mushroom Records) (1995)
- Freak Fun (compilation on Orange Records)
EPs
- Neighborhood Freak (Freakzone) (1994)
- Apple Eyes (CD Maxi on Mushroom Records) (1995)
- The Raw Funk Power (Freakzone)