A biopic is currently in production about his life and career with actor Dave Franco cast in the title role. He appeared on Dancing With The Stars in 2016 while he took to the stage again in 2017 on the hit US roadshow I Love The 90’s. He popped up again in 2010 with Irish duo Jedward on their single “Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)”, which went to No.1 in Ireland and No.2 in the UK, his first hit there in twenty years. He was photographed for Madonna’s ‘coffee table book’, Sex, in 1992. He left SBK in 1994 and has been signed to various independent labels ever since. Although he continued to release singles and albums throughout the 90’s and into the early 00’s, none of it saw commercial success. That is really where ‘Vanilla’s career comes to an end. He recorded the “Ninja Rap” for the second ‘Turtle’ film, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze’, the same year as he did with “Cool As Ice (Everybody Get Loose)”, which was recorded for his own ‘movie’, ‘Cool As Ice’, along with British model Naomi Campbell. Once again this used a sample, this time “Fly Like An Eagle” by Stever Miller Band, although it didn’t chart at home, it made No.27 in the UK while a second single, “Satisfaction”, peaked at No.22 there. ‘Vanilla’ released a live album later that year, “Extremely Live”, which featured the song “Rollin’ In My 5.0”. At this time, ‘Vanilla’ released his debut album, “To The Extreme”, which topped the US chart and sold over seven million copies and a further eight million internationally.Ī re-released “Play That Funky Music” followed in early 1991, reaching No.4 in America and No.10 in the UK while a third single from the album, “I Love You”, just about scrapped in the lower depths on both sides of the Atlantic. Global success followed later in 1990 as the song topped the chart in seven other countries, most notably a four week stay at the top in the UK in November-December. A lover of covering and using other artists work, the production liberally used Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 smash “Under Pressure” for its hook and with plenty of marketing thrown at it, the song went to the top of the US singles chart in August. In early 1990, he was signed by SBK Records, a division of EMI, who were interested in his earlier composition, “Ice Ice Baby”. He recorded and released a cover of Wild Cherry’s 1976 hit “Play That Funky Music”, although it was far from being a hit and ‘Ice’ left the label. By 1987 he was performing at gigs as a solo act and in 1989 he was signed to small independent record label, Ichiban Records. By the age of 16, he was calling himself ‘Vanilla Ice’ and wrote a rap about himself called, “Ice Ice Baby”. The Dallas born artist (b.1967) got his stage name early on as part of a group of rappers and breakdancers in the mid-1980’s and as the only white boy of the group, where he was nicknamed ‘Vanilla’. Had Robert Van Winkle attempted a chart hit, it probably would not have worked. In 2010, he launched the DIY Network series The Vanilla Ice Project, where he puts his contracting skills to the test by flipping properties as a real estate agent, and in 2016, he competed on Season 23 of Dancing with the Stars.Yo VIP let’s kick it! It’s ice ice baby, Vanilla. Decades later, Ice has remained a part of pop-culture.Four years after his commercially disappointing sophomore album, 1994’s Mind Blowin’, Ice pivoted to rap-metal with Hard to Swallow.That same year, he starred in the film Cool as Ice. Ice made his Hollywood debut playing himself in 1991’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.It’s sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. Thanks to the success of “Ice Ice Baby” and the follow-up hit “Play That Funky Music,” To the Extreme remained atop the Billboard 200 for 16 weeks.Ice has claimed he wrote the mammoth hit-which samples the Queen and David Bowie classic “Under Pressure”-when he was just 16. In 1990, “Ice Ice Baby” became the first rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100. It became a massive hit after it was rereleased by SBK Records the following year on the album To the Extreme.
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