Sisqó

There’s no question that Sisqo’s commercial peak came back in the nineties, initially through his success with the boy band Dru Hill; as their lead singer, he led them to three platinum-selling albums, 1996’s ‘Dru Hill’, 1998’s ‘Enter the Dru’ and 2002’s ‘Dru World Order’. Given the fickle nature of the audience for pop groups like Dru Hill, their longevity of appeal was impressive, but it was also obvious right from the start that Sisqo, in fronting the group, was destined to become its breakout star. Sure enough, his biggest hit came in the form of his risque 1999 smash ‘Thong Song’, which reached number three on the singles rundown on both sides of the Atlantic and helped to propel his debut solo album, ‘Unleash the Dragon’, to platinum selling status. Two years later, he earned the fourth of five career platinum discs to date when his second record, ‘Return of Dragon’, hit that sales certification, too.

Through the noughties, Sisqo’s commercial appeal began to wane, but he successfully toured across the U.S. and Europe with his Dru Hill bandmates, appeared widely on reality television - including Celebrity Big Brother in the UK - and brought out a third solo album, ominously titled ‘Last Dragon’, in January 2015.