Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware: EP30: Sananda Maitreya, Part 1 on Apple Podcasts". Podcasts.apple.com . Retrieved 1 July 2021. He had been born in 1962 to a Minister father and teacher mother, both of whom sang gospel in church and encouraged young Terence to do the same. Well, there you go,” he says. “When was the last time you heard a pop idol admit that they were having dysfunctional issues? Never! I’m counterintuitive like that.”

the remaining 9 songs were not "Produced" but rather hardened by Martyn 'Teddy Bear' Ware and Terence Trent D'Arby. Except for Seven More Days and If You Let Me Stay which was done by Howard Grey, the Red Headed Scouser of Camden, a b "Terence Trent DÁrby" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland . Retrieved March 5, 2021. The biggest music magazine in the world, Rolling Stone was incensed when Terence had the audacity to only agree to an interview if he was given the cover. They ran the cover with the tagline, “A legend in his own mind”.Sananda Maitreya wins Best Documentary Music Score At Kiez Berlin Film Festival/" . Retrieved 15 May 2023. I moved some people in high places,” he cautiously allows, aware that hubris was one of the things that did for him first time round.

Charts.nz – Terence Trent D'Arby – Introducing the Hardline According To". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 22, 2020. Canadian album certifications – Terence Trent D'Arby – Introducing the Hardline". Music Canada . Retrieved March 5, 2021. In 2023 a documentary Welcome to the MadHouse: The Costa Rica Sessions was released. The film won two awards at international festivals, such as the Kiez Berlin Festival, the International Gold Awards and received two special mentions at the Los Angeles Core Independent Film Festival and International Documentary Film Festival. [33]

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New Zealand album certifications – Terence Trent D'Arby – Introducing the Hardline". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved August 10, 2022. Maitreya has a daughter from a previous relationship, London-based musician Seraphina Simone, born in December 1988. [34] [35] It was while in Germany that Terence began his burgeoning career as a musician. He threw himself into Frankfurt’s vibrant bustling live music scene, eventually finding himself as the frontman of a band called Touch, which he described as “Earth Wind & Fire-meets-The Who”.

Whaley, Christopher (September 2007). "Sananda Maitreya Speaks! (interview)". Sobo Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12 . Retrieved 2008-01-18. Dutchcharts.nl – Terence Trent D'Arby – Introducing the Hardline According To" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 22, 2020.His hospitable wife, who has been listening into most of the three-hour interview, in between supplying us with drinks and providing a generous spread for lunch, winks then laughs. “It’s just a song,” she says, indicating her husband’s priapic prowess and the continued functioning of his organs. “All of it works.” Swisscharts.com – Terence Trent D'Arby – Introducing the Hardline According To". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 22, 2020. The album sold one million copies worldwide in its first three days on sale and topped the album charts around the world. In an interview, D'Arby played with the press and expressed a high opinion of his first album, claiming that it was the most important album since the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. [1] After the comments leaked to US media outlets, he stated that most of what he said was exaggerated, but that it is sometimes necessary to "hit people over the head" to get their attention. [12] The album earned him a Grammy Award in the category Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male (1989) [13] and a BRIT Award for International Breakthrough Act, and he also received Grammy and Soul Train nominations for Best New Artist. [14]

Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby is the debut studio album by Terence Trent D'Arby. It was released in July 1987 on Columbia Records, and debuted at number one in the UK, spending a total of nine weeks (non-consecutively) at the top of the UK Albums Chart. It hit number 1 in Australia and Switzerland. It was eventually certified 5× Platinum (for sales of 1.5 million copies). Worldwide, the album sold a million copies within the first three days of going on sale. [8] The album was also a hit in the US, although its success was slower. It was released there in October 1987, eventually peaking at number four on May 7, 1988, [9] – the same week that the single " Wishing Well" hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. It did peak higher on the Billboard R&B Albums chart at number one around the same time. [10] Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Archived from the original on 2015-05-28 . Retrieved 2015-05-28. A one-man amalgamation of the artists he had been inspired by, Terence’s arrival on the scene was initially met with trepidation. Sananda Maitreya's Introducing The Hardline Remastered and in Spatial Audio/" . Retrieved 1 July 2022.Petridis, Alexis (25 November 2002). "Sananda Maitreya (Terence Trent D'Arby)". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 June 2019. Although Terence defended himself by reiterating his earlier claims he was merely playing the media game and his statements were intended to attract attention to his work, his spoken words essentially overshadowed those he sang with such passion and eloquence. a b Gilmore, Mikal (June 16, 1988). "Can Terence Trent D'Arby Be As Good As He Thinks He Is". Rolling Stone. No.528.