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Birthday:

08-12-1950 (74 years)

Birthplace:

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Thomas August Darnell Browder, aka August Darnell--who goes by the stage name Kid Creole--is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his half-brother Stony Browder Jr., then went on to form and lead Kid Creole and the Coconuts. The latter band, with its trio of backing female singers (dubbed the Coconuts), draw upon musical influences as disparate as salsa, no wave, jazz, disco, pop music and big band. Darnell has written and produced for other artists and bands, such as Machine and Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9. He and the Coconuts have also contributed songs to numerous motion picture soundtracks, including "My Male Curiosity" for Against All Odds (1984).

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Identity Crisis

Act like Thrift Shop Man

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A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.

Obsession: A Taste for Fear

Act like Bookmaker

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A photographer's model is found murdered, sparking a police investigation that targets her ex-boyfriend. As more models die and murder videos surface, the true identity of the killer becomes uncertain.

Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day

Act like Self (archive footage)

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Fatherhood has proved a great subject for a variety of artists - some celebratory, some conflicted, but all inspired by what dad does and doesn't do. Here's a mixture of songs that celebrate and probe the emotional complexities generated by the sometime head of the household. Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Paul Simon, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Mike and the Mechanics, Suggs and the Blockheads, Neil Young, James Brown, Pigbag and even Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter Kelly put in an appearance, making a cracking compilation for Father's Day.

Only You

Act like Self

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Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.

Bad Girls

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The Italian erotic thriller Cattive ragazze (Bad Girls) was directed by gossip columnist Marina Ripa Di Meana, and stars Eva Grimaldi as a recently divorced woman falling in love with a male stripper, alongside a cast of big names such as Anita Ekberg and Burt Young.

Kid Creole and The Coconuts – Live At Rockpalast 1982

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The story of ex-banger racer Jack Elger who has to honor his brothers gambling debt by picking up a rare diamond necklace from an Arab prince off the coast of Cornwall and bring it back to London before he his killed. The trick is to stay alive as they race through the streets of London's Westend dodging bullets in the process.

Downtown '81

Act like Self - Vocals and Guitar, Kid Creole & The Coconuts

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The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 4

Act like self

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Best of Night of the Proms 4

The Forbidden Dance

Act like Kid Creole

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A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.

Mood Indigo

Act like Duke Ellington

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A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

Be Kind Rewind

Act like West Coast Video Employee Passaic

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A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Live In Paris 1985

Act like Self

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Kid Creole & The Coconuts recorded in concert.

Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Live in Montreal

Act like Self

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Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 5

Act like Self

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Best of Night of the Proms 5

Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3