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    The 1979 single "I Just Want to Be" was Cameo's breakthrough hit. It reached number 3 on the Billboard magazine Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and along with the follow-up single, the top 10 R&B ballad "Sparkle", pushed the album Secret Omen to gold status with sales of over 500,000 copies, the band's first album to achieve this status.

  2. Learn about Tomi Jenkins, the co-writer of Cameo's hits like Word Up and She's Strange, and his musical journey from New Jersey to Atlanta. Read his interview with We Were Funky, a website dedicated to funk and soul music history.

  3. (April 12, 2022) Tomi Jenkins is a founding member of Cameo, one of the most prolific and beloved funk bands of the era when self-contained bands dominated the R&B and soul music universe. Jenkins was a member when Cameo released albums brimming with great funk, dance numbers and ballads that kept dance floors crowded throughout the 1970s and 80s.

  4. Following that is the Leon Sylvers lll and Leon lV produced title track, “Life 2 Remember,” a beautiful string-laden ballad that recalls the classic sound of the past while maintaining a firm foothold in the present. “Masterpiece” brings to mind the breezy, lyrical style of Seal, or Sting.

  5. " Word Up! " is a funk and R&B song originally recorded by American funk band Cameo in 1986. It was released as the first single from their thirteenth album of the same name. The song was written by band members Larry Blackmon and Tomi Jenkins.

  6. Jun 9, 2023 · Conversational interview with Charlie Singleton and Tomi Jenkins, (formerly of the funk group Cameo) as they talk about their beginnings, solo projects, music sampling and more.

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  7. Mar 26, 2015 · Tomi Jenkins (Cameo) delivers a truly funked up hit that was never a hit. Oh well? Written by Tomi and Merv de Peyer, Elektra didn't promote it because of la...

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