: A juicy Jheri curl isn’t necessarily a necessity in life, but Soul Glo is. It was basically an audition like every audition. Michael Cage (Former NBA player, Soul Glo inspiration): [Laughs hysterically upon hearing that.] It’s just mind-blowing. And then the way John shot his entrance, pulling up in that car with the Soul Glo music playing… All he had to do was just look at himself in the mirror and adjust his hair, and you knew immediately that the guy was an asshole [. By the time we got around to it, Jheri curls were pretty much outré [. Why don’t we want her to stay with him? More than three decades after the film, Soul Glo remains a pop-culture landmark. Banoza: I go back to L.A. and visit this church with my daughter. How do you process that? I had to find out where this originated at. He showed it to the crew and everybody seemed to really like it. 0:18. Morsay Crew. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Soul Glow From Coming To America animated GIFs to your conversations. B.o.B. He said, “Hell, no!” He picked me up and swung me around and said, “You’re iconic. And the irony is, while I was there, I met Eddie Murphy for the first time. Curl activator was our thing; you carry your activator with you. It was literally one of the most hilarious moments in my life. And so I went to the Paramount lot in L.A. and parked on a side street — I didn’t even have enough clout to get a pass to get into the studio lot. I had no idea. He gave me a note. : You never foresee it. The biggest blessing and curse of my life is talented people. Translations, Speaking Portuguese - A place to practice and exchange, Speaking Romanian--a place for us to talk in Romanian, Learning Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian & Misc. Paramount called me the other day because someone just created a Soul Glo liquor with my picture on it. He didn’t acknowledge it, but it felt like such an achievement. Is no one else listening to the excellence of this falsetto hitting this note right now? : The commercial is celebrating the essence of blackness at that time. Ambrosius has ended most of her shows with a belting cover of the jingle, while B.o.B.’s, : Wait, my cover’s on YouTube? Translations, Learning Portuguese language & Misc. Even late in the Nineties, everyone would look at me and say, “Hey, Mr. They can talk me into almost anything, because I’m just in awe of their talent. James Earl Jones would pop in. The biggest blessing and curse of my life is talented people. Songs to Yeet At The Sun by SOUL GLO, released 06 November 2020 1. Rodgers: Nelson Mandela once told me, “Coming to America is so important to black people in Africa. “There goes Leroy.” “There goes Bob.” Everybody knew somebody that had a Soul Glo Jheri curl. You don’t set out to create something iconic. I’m an esthetician now and have a skin-care business in El Paso. I brought it to John and he said, “Oh my God, I love this.”, : It was hysterical, especially when Darryl pulls up in his car and pulls out the bottle and sprays his hair. : I am so happy because kids like it, and it’s a positive role. I fully get it.”. I was in my twenties when I did that song. But it was one of the most empowering moments of my career. Share the best GIFs now >>> : It’s one of my proudest accomplishments in life. You’re like, “I’m a superhero now at this point, and this is my theme song.”. Barry Blaustein (Co-writer): When Dave and I were writing [Coming to America], we thought it would be funny to show a commercial in it. The term should be “Jheri curl,” but everyone says “Soul Glo.”. Max: I don’t know who else could have hit those notes other than me at the time. John and Eddie were probably secretly dying inside. : I don’t dispute that. It was all connected. But I went there and saw the pick with the moisturizer spray-top pump on it, so that was my contribution. The film also co-stars Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, and John Amos. : John [Landis] was very clear on what kind of wardrobe he wanted this guy to have, and his wife was the costume designer. You just do the best work you can, and you put it out there in the ether, and you just see where it goes. 1.Spray on hair greese from a pump bottle used in the movie Coming to America which stars Eddie Murphy. RIFF-it good. Jones: I did a movie last year with Brian Tyree Henry, and I gave him a Soul Glo shirt. La Salle: You never foresee it. It’s hard because you’re now defined by this villain that you just were too good at. He said, “. It should look cheap.” We succeeded in that. I think we were probably high when we wrote the entire movie [. , where people’s hair would magically be enhanced by a product and their lives would be forever changed. Everyone started laughing at that part when I saw it in the theatre, but I didn’t even know what to expect. my little studio was like a film within a film. Hitting those notes is literally an impossibility at this point in my life. Max: He was like, “Hey man, I got this cool song, ‘Soul Glo,’ do you want to sing it?” Like I’m going to say no to Nile Rodgers asking me to sing a song for him. © Copyright 2021 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. As a composer, that’s what you want to do. It was all connected. Brewer: Eriq La Salle was one of the best villains of all time. Eddie could have probably played the Soul Glo guy. I knew a couple of drip-drips [. So I went in search of dildos with the prop guy from the movie. Questlove: All this time, I thought it was Mic [Murphy] and David [Frank] of [1980s synth-pop group] the System. Ambrosius: So much of the crowd are like, “Oh my God, she is not singing Soul Glo right now.” I’ll walk off and the band is still playing the outro music and a very awkward saxophone synth line, and it’s just a wonderful, feel-good, nostalgic moment to be able to give back like that. : On the set of [the sequel], all the cast started shouting and screaming and wanting pictures when they found out I was Soul Glo. SOUL GLO MUSIC. Max: I was born into the music business. You don’t control it becoming iconic. : He was like, “Hey man, I got this cool song, ‘Soul Glo,’ do you want to sing it?” Like I’m going to say no to Nile Rodgers asking me to sing a song for him. I don’t know if he could act or not, but that’s the guy.” Paulette was so nice and very easy to work with. So you get a bit of a song and you go, “I don’t know how it’s gonna be.” But it was hilarious. You couldn’t even kiss a girl because it would taste like grease in your mouth. It was actually a very impactful experience that I’ve tried to emulate [as a director and producer] whenever I can, which was something very simple: John Landis hired me on the spot. I’m going, “Oh my God. As the film’s sequel, Coming 2 America, comes to Amazon Prime on Friday, the writers, singers, and actors behind the fake commercial — plus the NBA star who inspired it, musicians who cover it, celebrities who love it, and more — reveal the story behind a 35-second pop-culture masterpiece and its lasting impact on the world. But when I say “Soul Glo,” they go ballistic. Don’t tell people that!” I could not escape it. SONGLYRICS just got interactive. Soul Glo Commercial (featuring Beer) Beer Commercial. : The hardest part [of recreating the video] might have to be the hair. Rodgers: By the time I did “Soul Glo,” I knew that Chris not only could sing it, but he understood the comedic aspect of it. We really had to be very creative and clever and line up the scenes shot for shot and really nail it. Blaustein: When Dave and I wrote it, we didn’t know it’d have this long-lasting effect. : There were people that laughed at Jheri curls and then there were people like me who actually did it. He looked chiseled. : The hardest part [of recreating the video] might have to be the hair. And when I met him, he was trying to bring an album to me that he wanted me to produce. People still have fun with it and that’s the most important thing. tonight,” and I’m looking at her like, “Really? Jones: On the set of [the sequel], all the cast started shouting and screaming and wanting pictures when they found out I was Soul Glo. I got a husband and three daughters, and I don’t want to put that kind of thing out there. He was so good-looking, he was almost like a parody of a good-looking guy. So it just comes in these unexpected places. I didn’t know if I was going to have to do something to my natural hair. The "Soul Glo" song from "Coming to America" is sung by Christopher Max. Yes, it was me singing, but it was like I was pretending to sound like someone else. We came up with the idea that he had this company Soul Glo, and that he was a customer as well as an owner. B.o.B. I would have to significantly lower the key, like we would be doing it in heavy metal. : We’re making very serious music about topics that you don’t normally hear in hardcore, from a perspective that you don’t normally hear in hardcore. That it’s survived this long is still a mystery to me. And we just did an improv, and it’s the stupidest movie in the world. [Soul Glo and. ] It would have been iconic like it is now. He was asking me why I was so upset, and I said, “Man, I got to play this bullshit composition.” He says, “Nile, that song has been number one for three or four weeks now … It speaks to the souls of millions of strangers.” And I said, “Yeah, but it sucks.” He says, “Wait a minute, let me get this straight: The millions of people who bought ‘Sugar, Sugar,’ they’re wrong. I still don’t get it. It’s hard because you’re now defined by this villain that you just were too good at. : The ad was a culture-defining moment because it accurately captured a period in African American history where we literally lost our minds, washed our brains down the drain, and, !” This is a time when being “straight” wasn’t cool, you had to be “curly” and “wet” to be “hot.”, : The way they sang the vocals and the arrangement was dope. When I wrote the [intro], I had actually written: “You could be all the things you’ve always wanted to be / Smooth, ‘staphisticated,’ easy as one, two, three.” John Landis looked at me and said, “I can’t say ‘staphisticated.’ I’ll get run out of Hollywood.” I said, “John, every black person will be on the floor crying when you go, ‘staphisticated. and we did his walk-on [music], we spent 20 minutes trying to build our own distorted keyboard patch for a seven-second [piece of music]. The body dies, but the soul never dies. For black folks in America, Coming to America is such a big pop-culture touchstone. Jones: It’s so funny because everybody knows Soul Glo but nobody really knows Clyde. When you see the commercial, then you’re like, “Oh, OK. B.o.B. He told me one day when I was going in for a lesson that I had a real sourpuss attitude. It was overload looking at some of these outfits, but then I started really getting into it, like, “Let’s get some red leather gloves and a red and white poncho.” [Laughs.]. ], we thought it would be funny to show a commercial in it. I never thought Soul Glo would be one of the more identifying things with the movie, but I’m glad it is. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Before I got to my car, I was in the parking lot, and they came out and said, “You got the job.” I didn’t even know it was for an Eddie Murphy movie [laughs]. Sheffield: It’s one of my proudest accomplishments in life. I love you.” It put tears in my eyes what people feel about this character. : I was doing runway modeling, and my agency sent me out because there were a lot of auditions for videos and commercials. That was the “before” shot, and the director is going, “OK, can we get her to look a little worse? B.o.B has decided to take mercy on his fanbase and unleash a new loosie called “Soul Glo.” The track arrives alongside a Coming To America inspired video, which adds an added layer of titular soul … : I just interpreted it as being the ultimate spoof parody on the typical gospel soul singer. translations, Serbian/Croatian chit-chat off topic discussions, Learning Bulgarian language & Misc. : We studied the movie from a scientific standpoint. I walk by and turn around and look at Eddie like he’s out of his mind. We really had to be very creative and clever and line up the scenes shot for shot and really nail it. 1 decade ago. It was actually a very impactful experience that I’ve tried to emulate [as a director and producer] whenever I can, which was something very simple: John Landis hired me on the spot. That is absolutely incredible. I loved my hair, man, and it was a big part of my whole persona at the time. That’s why it wins over so many people’s hearts. I’m doing this new picture with Eddie Murphy.” And he sent me the script called “The Zamunda Project.” Coming to America was my first big orchestral score, but goddamn, I grew up in movie theaters. When I first met Chris Max, I was like, “Wow, this dude is incredible. And I want to give you something that makes you feel really good, something that you know can stay in your soul.” And I’ll hit the [. ] [It] started helping me discover the character. They got that!”. People still have fun with it and that’s the most important thing. No Soul Glo in Coming 2 America? It has this dramatic meaning, but it also sounds like a joke, because we’re a hardcore band with a name like Soul Glo. We did it. ]. 0 0. Blaustein: Clyde was a very nice guy. It’s of course a reference to that, but it also quite literally represents what music is to us; like the glow of your soul [and] who you truly are, and communicating yourself through all that. To see Eriq do that was funny, because I was like, “I do that in the morning.”. My father was [soul singer] Eugene McDaniels. I still get shit for that. That was the “before” shot, and the director is going, “OK, can we get her to look a little worse? La Salle: I was shooting on set [years later] and one of the crew guys came up to me and said, “I’m from South Africa, and it’s great seeing an African-American in this role of executive producer on a show.” I think we’re about to have this bonding moment, one black man to another, and he goes, “When I saw Coming to America...” and turns into a little kid. : Now that Pavarotti is gone, [Chris] is probably the only one who can hit that high C if it was necessary. ] We had a problem at one point, because the spray from the Soul Glo bottle wasn’t showing up, so we had to shoot that separately. : After I stopped modeling, I was a sales rep for Office Depot. . Jordan: We’re making very serious music about topics that you don’t normally hear in hardcore, from a perspective that you don’t normally hear in hardcore. But when I say “Soul Glo,” they go ballistic. And then the way John shot his entrance, pulling up in that car with the Soul Glo music playing… All he had to do was just look at himself in the mirror and adjust his hair, and you knew immediately that the guy was an asshole [laughs]. A friend of mine had a band called A Spike Lee Joint and he got a cease-and-desist [, : I had an epiphany: I want to do this movie called, And we just did an improv, and it’s the stupidest movie in the world. Coming to America also introduced us to Shari Headley (Akeem's love interest, Lisa) and rose bearer Garcelle Beauvais, who would go on to star in The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. He had that register that could kill it. 2. Mathed Up 5. I’m like, thank God. You could forget former lovers’ names, but you won’t forget the gorgeous ascension of those notes. : Chris was the only guy who could sing it. !” This is the type of stuff I get with this character. Just let it shine through) I want you to put your hands together (Just let your soul glo!) But I went there and saw the pick with the moisturizer spray-top pump on it, so that was my contribution. Rodgers: When I was a student, I had a phenomenal music teacher, and he was a real heavy, hardcore jazz guy. A friend of mine had a band called A Spike Lee Joint and he got a cease-and-desist [laughs]. It was an ongoing joke amongst ourselves as a community. He showed it to the crew and everybody seemed to really like it. The world needs to hear this.”. How excited for Coming 2 America are you? But I feel honored because that movie is so iconic in every way possible. Jones: We shot the scene in one day at the Paramount lot. He and his writing partner, David Sheffield, had been working on a script with Eddie Murphy called The Quest, about an African prince who travels to America to find a wife. They said to me, “Can you swing your hair?” I said, “Ooh, yeah, I can swing some hair, girl!” I start slinging it around, and they’re cracking up laughing. He was a good-looking guy, and there were some executives from Paramount who were concerned that he was so great-looking, why would [Lisa] not like him? He decided on the spot that he and Sheffield should lampoon the ads in their film, which would later be retitled, It was supposed to be a throwaway joke, just one of many in the beloved comedy starring Murphy as naive prince Akeem, of the fictional nation of Zamunda, and. : I did a movie last year with Brian Tyree Henry, and I gave him a Soul Glo shirt. You can’t catch ’em. It’s like the multiplicity of self; the glow of your soul. He told me one day when I was going in for a lesson that I had a real sourpuss attitude. I was on the road for years doing plays, and they would promote me as “The Soul Glo man.” People wanted to take pictures with the Soul Glo man. They got that!”. To see Eriq do that was funny, because I was like, “I do that in the morning.”. We were laughing and saying, “This could be a [real] commercial.” We were very high. We know it’s funny, but we also want to do things with our hair, so Soul Glo was that.
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