Lighthouse Family
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| Lighthouse Family | ||
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 Album cover of Ocean Drive
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
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| Genre(s) | Pop, Easy Listening | |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals (Tunde Baiyewu), Keyboard (Paul Tucker) | |
| Years active | 1993 - 2003 | |
| Label(s) | Polydor | |
| Members | ||
| Tunde Baiyewu Paul Tucker |
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The Lighthouse Family were a British duo active from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Vocalist Tunde Baiyewu and keyboard player Paul Tucker formed the act in 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK after meeting at university. Their 1995 debut album Ocean Drive sold more than 1.6 million copies in the UK alone and established them as a popular easy listening duo throughout Europe.
Although none of their singles reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, they did reach number one on the Australian Singles Chart with the song "High".
The Lighthouse Family split up in early 2003 because of what they called a "heavy promotional schedule" following the release of Whatever Gets You Through the Day in 2002. This led to both men pursuing individual projects. Baiyewu embarked on a solo career, and released an album called Tunde in late 2004.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Ocean Drive (1996)
- Postcards from Heaven (1997)
- Whatever Gets You Through the Day (2001)
- Greatest Hits (2002)
- The Very Best of Lighthouse Family (2003)
- Relaxed & Remixed (2004)
[edit] UK Singles
- "Lifted" (#61 1995)
- "Ocean Drive" (#34 1995)
- "Lifted" [Re-Release] (#4 1996)
- "Ocean Drive" [Re-Release] (#11 1996)
- "Goodbye Heartbreak" (#14 1996)
- "Loving Every Minute" (#20 1996)
- "Raincloud" (#6 1997)
- "High" (#4 1998)
- "Lost in Space" (#6 1998)
- "Question of Faith" (#21 1998)
- "Postcard from Heaven" (#24 1999)
- "(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One" (#6 2001)
- "Run" (#30 2002)
- "Happy" (#51 2002)
- "I Could Have Loved You" (2003) - didn't reach the UK Top 75
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Most of the Lighthouse Family's official and fan sites are now offline; for those that are, the following are links to selected archived sites.
- Official site at the Wayback Machine (Flash-based, no longer accessible)
- Official Wildcard Records site at the Wayback Machine
- Lighthouse Family Unofficial Web Site at the Wayback Machine
- 1996 biography by Dotmusic at the Wayback Machine
- Unofficial Lighthouse Family
- Interviews and discography
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