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Men around 1980 along with two friends, Colyn "Mo" Grant and Nehemiah Hield. The group, originally billed as High Voltage, was renamed Baha Men in the early 1990s and included seven members by the late 1990s. Between 1999 and 2000, Baha Men added a trio of new vocalists into the mix of the band. Along with the new personnel, the band members integrated rap, hip-hop, and the Jamaican dance hall rhythms into the distinctive junkanoo blend. Further lineup changes would ensue, and the group's first big breakthrough came after they signed with S-Curve Records and released the single, "Who Let the Dogs Out" in 1999. The song served as the title track for an upbeat party album, Doong Spank, released in July 2000, and easily brought the group to widespread attention as a crossover group into mainstream and popular music. When the Rugrats in Paris soundtrack was released in October that year, "Who Let the Dogs Out" was a featured track, and went on to sell 1.5 million copies by November 2000. The song would win a Grammy award for Best Dance Recording in 2000, and the album itself would go on to sell some five million copies, bringing Baha Men front and center.



In early 2002, the Baha Men attempted for more Top 40 stardom by issuing the follow up, Move It Like This. That same year, they won a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for Favorite Band and Favorite Song. Playing to their youthful audience, The Baha Men were one of the many artists to record a song on the album DisneyMania and two of its four sequels. On the first DisneyMania, they recorded "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King. On DisneyMania 2, they recorded the classic song "It's a Small World" from the Disney park attraction of the same name. They were absent from DisneyMania 3, though they returned for DisneyMania 4, recording their take on the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from Lilo and Stitch entitled "Bahaman Roller Coaster Ride." Although they haven't recorded an album since 2004's Holla!, their catchy songs remain and enduring presence in the pop world.