The lead track on I Wake Up Screaming, the 12th album August Darnell has released as his "tropical gangster" alter ego Kid Creole (the Coconuts are his backing singers), has plenty of wit. That's to ...

Who is August Darnell aka Kid Creole? Thomas August Darnell Browder, 67, is an Americian musician born in The Bronx, New York. His mother was from South Carolina with Caribbean and Italian parents and ...

To clear up any confusion, August Darnell provided two separate comments to Billboard. By Karen Bliss August Darnell a.k.a. Kid Creole of Kid Creole and the Coconuts wants to make it clear that ...

The disco era yielded only one important lyricist, and his name was August Darnell. He wrote tongue-in-cheek satire and sang harmony for Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. When that group broke up, ...

Latin dance band Kid Creole and the Coconuts will headline next year's Adelaide Festival opening party. "We are the band that people call upon when they want to have a good time,'' Kid Creole - aka ...

August Darnell, a.k.a. Kid Creole, leader of Kid Creole and the Coconuts, whose unique brand of '80s music mixed jazz, salsa and Tin Pan Alley pop. ((Chris Jackson/Getty Images) ) Referring to ...

Kid Creole has sold the rights to his hits including Annie I’m Not Your Daddy to music publisher One Media iP Group, after a flurry of sales by other artists. The singer has sold the writers’ ...

August Darnell bows low, the brim of his white fedora touching my hand. “Charmed, I am sure,” he says in a Bronx accent untempered by three decades of European living. “It is so good to be here in ...

Kid Creole and the Coconuts are an American band created and led by August Darnell (aka Kid Creole). Their music incorporates styles like big band jazz, disco, and in particular Caribbean/Latin ...

Kid Creole has sold the rights to his hits including Annie I’m Not Your Daddy to music publisher One Media iP Group, after a flurry of sales by other artists. The singer has sold the writers’ ...

One Media iP Group Plc (AIM: OMIP), the digital music rights acquirer, publisher and distributor, announces that it has acquired the writer’s share to the royalties of over 250 tracks of Kid Creole ...

Kid Creole has sold the rights to his hits including Annie I’m Not Your Daddy to music publisher One Media iP Group, after a flurry of sales by other artists. The singer has sold the writers’ ...