Photo by Hiroshi Iwaya
Grammy nominees NU SHOOZ filled the airwaves and dance floors of the '80s with their own brand of Soul and R&B. Known for their chart-topping crossover hits, "I Can't Wait," "Point of No Return,' and "Should I Say Yes," the band gained a worldwide fan base and a place in music history. Their smash hit “I Can’t Wait still plays somewhere on Earth every eleven minutes.
The 'Sound of the 80s' lives on in films like The End of The Tour, 10,000 Saints, Hot Tub Time Machine (and more,) plus creative advertising like Target's 'Now This Is Plaid' campaign featuring fun and funky stuff designed by Adam Lippes with 'I Can't Wait' produced by Questlove and sung by Iconapop.
What keeps the music alive and kickin'? YOU! So thank you! Valerie & John would love to hear from you, so please get in touch on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or our Contact page. See you on the dance floor, baby!
It's our humble opinion that Portland, Oregon, for a brief period in the 1980s, had the best music scene IN THE WORLD.* I should qualify this by saying we only had New York and L.A. to compare it to: New York, where famous jazz guys were making fifty bucks a night, and L.A., where you had "Pay to Play." [I.e., Sell tickets to get a slot on the club stage, where you'd get exposure and hopefully gain the attention of an A&R man from a major label. People die of exposure.]
Portland was different. For a Golden Period, from around 1980-86, dozens of clubs opened. There was a brief relaxation in Oregon’s strict liquor laws. This came at the exact moment when Nu Shooz changed from a struggling four-piece to a nine-piece band with four horns.