Blue Pearl
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{short description|English electronic music duo}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| origin = London, England
| genre = House, alternative dance
| years_active = 1990–1993
| label = Big Life
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| past_members = Durga McBroom
Youth
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Blue Pearl are an English electronic music duo consisting of American female singer Durga McBroom and British musician Youth (Martin Glover).{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=1998|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0252-6|page=42}} They charted six times on the UK singles chart{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/26293/blue-pearl/ |title = BLUE PEARL {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company| website=Official Charts }} and had two songs reach the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
"Naked in the Rain" was a No. 4 hit in the UK Singles Chart and a No. 5 dance hit in the US in 1990, which was originally issued on blue vinyl. It was followed by "(Can You) Feel the Passion" (whose melody samples Bizarre Inc's "Playing with Knives"), which hit No. 1 on both Billboard's Dance Club Play and the UK Dance Chart in 1992, reaching No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart. They also had a Top 40 hit in the UK Singles Chart in November 1990 with the No. 31 hit, "Little Brother".{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| pages= 66}}
As McBroom is a backing vocalist for Pink Floyd, their records feature guest appearances from David Gilmour and Richard Wright. A couple of decades later, both Youth and McBroom went on to be involved in the completion of Pink Floyd's 2014 album The Endless River, which charted at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart.
Discography
=Albums=
=Singles=
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rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2" style="width:26em;"| Single ! colspan="9"| Peak positions ! rowspan="2"| Album | ||||||||
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! width="35"| UK
! width="35"| IRE ! width="35"| NED ! width="35"| BEL ! width="35"| GER ! width="35"| AUT ! width="35"| SWI ! width="35"| SWE ! width="35"| US Dance | ||||||||
rowspan="2"| 1990
! scope="row"| "Naked in the Rain" | 4 | 14 | — | 9 | 21 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 5
| align="left" rowspan="3"| Naked |
scope="row"| "Little Brother"
| 31 || 30 || — || — || 75 || — || — || — || — | ||||||||
rowspan="2"| 1991
! scope="row"| "Alive" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
scope="row"| "(Can You) Feel the Passion"
| 14 || 24 || 49 || 34 || — || — || — || 32 || 1 | rowspan="5" align="left" | singles only | ||||||||
1992
! scope="row"| "Mother Dawn" | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1993
! scope="row"| "Fire of Love" (with Jungle High) | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1998
! scope="row"| "Naked in the Rain '98" | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
align="center" colspan="15" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |
See also
References
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