Artist
Phats & Small
Phats & Small is a house artist from Brighton, England formed in 1998. 4 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
House · Brighton, England · Best house albums
- 4
- Releases
- 1999–2004
- Active years
- 1998
- Formed
Artist
Phats & Small is a house artist from Brighton, England formed in 1998. 4 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
House · Brighton, England · Best house albums
Phats & Small are a dance music duo from the UK. The duo consists of Jason "Phats" Hayward and Russell Small, they are best known for their single "Turn Around", which became an international hit in 1999. They appeared on the scene in 1998 with "Turn Around", a track that featured sampled vocals taken from Toney Lee's "Reach Up" debuted at #3 in the UK Singles Chart, before climbing to #2, with career sales of this hit amassing them £5,000 in total due to their recording contract. Singer Ben Ofoedu appears in the video for the track miming to the vocals, future releases featured his voice but 'Turn Around' did not. However, Ofoedu has been known to perform the track live. In 1999, they also released their first album, Now Phats What I Small Music, a play on their name and the compilation series Now That's What I Call Music!. Ofoedu sung on two tracks, "Feel Good" and "Tonite", which were also released as singles. In 1999, Phats & Small also achieved notoriety for remixing the Earth Wind & Fire track, "September" and Simply Red's "Ain't That a Lot of Love". Other remixes around the same time included PJ "Happy Days", Space Raiders "I Need The Disko Doktor" and High Steppers "I Will …
