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Biography

En Vogue is a Grammy-nominated American female R&B vocal quartet assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy. To date, En Vogue has sold over twenty million albums and singles worldwide. They have won more MTV Video Music Awards than any other female group in MTV history, a total of seven, along with three Soul Train Awards, two American Music Awards and seven Grammy nominations. According to Billboard Magazine they were the eighteenth most successful act of the 1990s, and one of the most popular and successful female groups of all time. The band has spent over 2800 weeks on various Billboard charts.

Biography

Assembled in Oakland, California in July 1989, the original members are Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, Dawn Robinson and Terry Ellis. The inspiration behind the group came when the production duo of Foster and McElroy sought to put together a modern-day girl group in the tradition of past girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s. Looking for singers with strong voices, who looked salacious and were also intelligent. Auditions were held in 1988, resulting in Herron, Jones, Robinson making the final cut. Like previous girl groups, the plan was to have a trio, but after hearing Ellis audition, Foster and McElroy decided to make it a quartet. Prior to the group's official name, they were primarily called "For You." They shifted to "Vogue", but ultimately settled on En Vogue, upon learning that another group had already claimed that name.

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