Bananarama Information

Bananarama is an all-female pop group who have been successful on the pop and dance charts since 1982. There have been minor line-up changes over the years, but Bananarama experienced their greatest success during the period from 1982 to 1989. Made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin, Bananarama entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1988, as the all-female group who have the most chart entries in history, a record they still hold. The group was founded in London in 1979 by Fahey, Woodward and Dallin. By the time the third single from their fourth album "Wow! was released in '88, Fahey had left the group due to a difference of opinion as to the direction the group was taking. In Fahey's absence, Jacquie O'Sullivan joined the ranks. After the release of the fourth and final single from the Bananarama's 1991 album "Pop Life" , however, O'Sullivan left the band to form the short-lived Slippery Feet. In 1993, Dallin and Woodward returned as a duo with an album entitled " Please Yourself", followed by the album "Ultra Violet" in 1995, which produced two minor hit singles "Every Shade of Blue" and "Take Me to Your Heart". In 2001, they released the album "Exotica", which was followed by "Drama" in 2005. Drama put Bananarama, after a 14 year absence, back on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and the Hot Dance Airplay charts with an import version of "Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)". "Look on the Floor" became their first U.S. hit since 1992, when they scored with "Tripping on Your Love". Bananarama released a new single entitled "Love Comes", and a new album "Viva" in September 2009.