Kid Creole

Kid Creole

Nascimento : 1950-08-12, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

História

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).

Perfil

Kid Creole

Filmes

Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day
Self - archive footage
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.
A Espuma dos Dias
Duke Ellington
Colin (Romain Duris) é um homem rico e despreocupado, que nunca precisou trabalhar. Tímido, ele nunca teve muito sucesso com as mulheres, até ser apresentado a Chloé (Audrey Tautou) durante uma festa. Apesar de um primeiro encontro desastroso, os dois se apaixonam e se casam. O casal está sempre cercado pelos amigos Nicolas (Omar Sy), um cozinheiro talentoso, oChick (Gad Elmaleh), um intelectual pobre e fascinado pelo filósofo Jean Sol-Partre, e a extrovertida Alise (Aïssa Maïga). Tudo caminha bem, até o dia em que Chloé é diagnosticada com uma doença rara: ela tem uma flor de lótus crescendo dentro do seu pulmão. O caríssimo tratamento exige o uso de diversos medicamentos e a aplicação de centenas de flores, levando Colin à falência, e a amizade do grupo à crise.
Kid Creole and The Coconuts – Live At Rockpalast 1982
Best of Night of the Proms Vol.  5
Best of Night of the Proms 5
Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 4
self
Best of Night of the Proms 4
Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3
Rebobine, Por Favor
West Coast Video Employee Passaic
Jerry (Jack Black) trabalha em um ferro-velho e decide sabotar a usina elétrica da cidade, pois acha que ela está derretendo seu cérebro. No entanto, seu plano dá errado e ele acaba sendo magnetizado. Assim, quando vai procurar ajuda na locadora de vídeo onde seu melhor amigo trabalha, Jerry destrói todos os filmes disponíveis. Para não perderem uma leal cliente da loja, uma senhora idosa com sinais de demência, os dois decidem recriar diversos dos filmes destruídos, como O Rei Leão, De Volta Para o Futuro, Os Caça-Fantasmas e RoboCop.
Downtown '81
August Darnell
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.
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Live In Paris 1985
Kid Creole & The Coconuts recorded in concert.
O Paraíso Te Espera
Self
Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.
Lambada, A Dança Proibida
Kid Creole
No início da década de 1990, as florestas tropicais brasileiras estão sob a ameaça de uma grande multinacional americana. Buscando uma solução, a princesa Nisa (Laura Harring) viaja com o xamã Joa (Sid Haig) para Los Angeles, a fim de encontrar um modo de salvar a fauna e flora do local. Mas os planos não dão muito certo: Joa é preso e Nisa deve encontrar, sozinha, a solução para impedir a destruição da floresta. A salvação vem quando ela encontra um jovem que dançarino, e juntos resolvem participar de uma competição de lambada promovida por uma emissora de TV.
Identity Crisis
Thrift Shop Man (as August Darnell)
A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.
Obsession: A Taste for Fear
Bookmaker
Diane is a photographer of the ultimate in trendy soft core. Her ex, George, who makes bondage films, hooks Diane up with the muscular Teagan in exchange for a favor with a well-heeled client. Diane asks Teagan to model in her next shoot. When Teagan turns up bound, gagged, and dead, a rough policeman, Lt. Arnold, focuses his suspicions on George. When a second model dies and video disks show up depicting the murders, Arnold is certain he has his man - except that the killer we see in the videos is a red-headed woman. Diane's assistant, Valerie, can't keep her eyes off Diane, and Diane's mixer, Paul, also tries to be her protector. Do the cops have the wrong person?
Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Live in Montreal
Himself