Bananarama Facts: Bananarama is a British pop girl group formed in London in 1981. The group originally consisted of three members: Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. They are known for their catchy and fun pop songs, energetic performances, and signature harmonies.
Bananarama’s early success came with their debut single, “Aie a Mwana,” in 1981. However, it was their cover of “Really Saying Something” in collaboration with Fun Boy Three that brought them mainstream attention and their first top 5 hit in the UK in 1982.
Bananarama Facts
1- Founding Bananarama members Sarah Dallin, Keren Woodward, and Siobhan Fahey were roommates before forming their singing trio
2- The group had their first hit in 1982
3- Sarah Dallin collects Bananarama memorabilia and says that her daughter Alice wears her 80s clothes.
4- Fahey left the group in 1988 and formed Shakespears Sister, best known for the UK number one “Stay” (1992)
5- Between 1982 and 2009, they had 28 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.
6- “Cruel Summer” is the only Bananarama song to have the words “Cruel” and “Summer” in the title.
7- Fahey was replaced by Jacquie O’Sullivan in 1988. O’Sullivan left in 1991.
8- Karen Woodward admits to having a shoe obsession and loves online shopping from her rural Cornwall home.
9- Early musical influences for Karen Woodward included David Bowie and Roxy Music.
10- Karen met Bananarama co-founder Sara Dallin when they were 5 years old.
11- In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked them the 94th most successful dance artist of all time.
12- Dallin and Woodward remain best friends and use FaceTime to drink wine together and chat
13- During a press tour in New York City, the group also recorded a song “Riskin’ a Romance” featured in the film The Secret of My Success (1987)
14- Bananarama recorded their first demo, “Aie a Mwana”, a cover of a song by Black Blood, sung in Swahili
15- Sara’s hairspray was originally developed as a weapon of mass destruction.
16- In June 2009, Bananarama performed at the Isle of Wight Festival.
17- Sara studied fashion journalism at the London College of Fashion prior to co-founding Bananarama and jokes that it “was about having the biggest hair.”
18- By 2002, Bananarama had sold 40 million records worldwide
19- Their first single, “Aie A Mwana”, had lyrics in Swahili, which sounded “tropical” to the girls–somehow that suggested “bananas” to them. Then they took the “rama” from the song “Pyjamarama” by the group Roxy Music and put it all together
20- Bananarama featured on the Band Aid single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” and were the only artists to appear on both the original 1984 Band Aid and the 1989 Band Aid II versions (though Fahey only appeared on the 1984 version).
Sources
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