Love City Groove were formed by the producer and songwriter Stephen "Beanz" Rudden,[1] who at the time was a staff writer at Warner Chappell Music.
Q-Tee, believing that a male rapper was also needed, arrived at the studio with Jay Williams, a student at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology.
[2] The final line-up of Love City Groove consisted of Stephen Rudden, rappers Jay Williams and Yinka Charles (a.k.a.
[2] Their Eurovision entry, chosen by public vote, was named "Love City Groove", and written by Rudden, Hardy, Williams, and Tatiana Mais (aka Q-Tee).
[a] The song was a combination of laid-back soulful background instrumentals overlaid with rap vocals by Williams and the only female band member, Reason, and backed by a full orchestra.
[2] The song was enthusiastically embraced by the tabloids, although less so by papers such as The Independent, which criticised the lyrics and, according to Hardy brought them in for "an interview under the guise of a questionnaire and the questions were designed to make us look stupid".
[2] At Eurovision, held in Ireland that year,[2] the song received a mixed reception from the juries, finishing tenth with 76 points.
He then turned Plutonic into the first of many group projects he would helm with "Twilight Zone" (Sony – 1991) and, in 1992, an album for Arista Records, including the singles "One Life" (mixes by Frankie Knuckles and Mike "Hitman" Wilson) and "Sentence of Love" (with a remix by Eric Kuppa).
[citation needed] After Love City Groove, Rudden established a new band, The Collective, who were signed to Simon Cowell's record label.
He also wrote music (the title theme, "Get Crafty") for the film The Real Howard Spitz, starring Kelsey Grammer, and for Disney's game Astro Knights.
[citation needed] In 2011, Rudden considered re-releasing "Love City Groove", and reconnected with Paul Hardy.
[10] She started rapping in old-school hip hop style when she was 15 and enjoyed great success, performing in concerts and on music channels and programmes around the world, including YO MTV and Top of the Pops.
In 1990,she released the hip hop single A side "Housequake" AA 'Symbolise, produced by Chapter n Verse on Positive Beat Label...credited as "The Voice of Reason a.k.a.
In 93 she had two tracks "Come Correct" and Part time Lover" on an album Rhythm Within produced by Jazz Black toured with the likes of Mc Lyte,Poor Righteous Teachers,DA Youngsters and Roots.
In 2020, she helped to organise a protest called Justice for El, in support of the family of a young black barman who was attacked in a pub in Portobello Road by a group of white men.