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| Origin | Australia |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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| Members | Andrew Stanley Matthew Handley |
Yolanda Be Cool are an Australian music duo made up of Andrew Stanley and Matthew Handley.
Yolanda Be Cool | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Australia |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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| Members | Andrew Stanley Matthew Handley |
Yolanda Be Cool are an Australian music duo made up of Andrew Stanley and Matthew Handley.
In 2010, they collaborated with Australian producer DCUP (real name Duncan MacLennan) to release an international single "We No Speak Americano" on the indie Australian label Sweat It Out, sampling on a 1956 Neapolitan language hit "Tu vuò fà l'americano" by Renato Carosone and written by Carosone and Nicola "Nisa" Salerno. [1]
"We No Speak Americano" sold over 5 million copies and amassed over 200 million YouTube views worldwide. It topped the British, Spanish, German, Mexican, Argentinian, Swedish, Danish, Swiss, and Ecuadorian charts, [2] and reached the Top 5 in Australia, France, Italy, Spain and Norway. It was also a chart hit in Colombia, New Zealand, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Venezuela, Honduras, Costa Rica and several other countries. The video was directed by Andy Hylton. Prior to the hit, they had collaborated with DCUP when he remixed their hit "Afro Nuts" in 2009.[ citation needed ]
The name is a reference to the scene in the film Pulp Fiction , where the character Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson) tells an armed robber named Yolanda (played by Amanda Plummer) "Be cool!" Yolanda Be Cool received two 2010 ARIA Music Awards nominations which include, "Best Dance Release" and "Most Popular Australian Single" for "We No Speak Americano". [3]
In 2011, Yolanda Be Cool collaborated with Crystal Waters on a track called 'Le Bump' [4] which then made it onto their debut album "Ladies and Mentalmen" released by Sweat It Out! and DIM MAK in 2013. The album featured indigenous Australian icon Gurrumul, house royalty Crystal Waters and Barbara Tucker, soul legend Betty Wright and US up and coming rap star Nola Darling. Also, Yolanda Be Cool notably remixed Cyndi Lauper's song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", taken from the 30th anniversary reissue of her album She's So Unusual . [5]
In 2015, they got back in the studio with DCUP to make "Sugar Man", an edit of a song by Rodriguez that went on to go platinum in Australia [6] before writing Soul Makossa, which samples Manu Dibango's saxophone. The song currently has over 1 million plays on YouTube [7] and claimed number 2 on Beatport's Top Ten in addition to being the sixth most sold House record of the year. [8]
Yolanda Be Cool released "From Me to You" with DCUP on Spinnin' Records on 8 February 2016.
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| Ladies & Mentalmen |
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| Je Suis Music |
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
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| AUS [9] | AUT [10] | BEL [11] | FRA [12] | GER [13] | NLD [14] | SWE [15] | SWI [16] | UK [17] | US [18] | ||||
| "Afro Nuts" | 2009 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Holy Cow" | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "We No Speak Americano" (with DCUP) | 2010 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 29 | ||
| "Le Bump" (featuring Crystal Waters) | 2011 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Ladies & Mentalmen | |
| "Change" (featuring Nola Darling) | 2012 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Before Midnight" | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "A Baru in New York" (featuring Gurrumul) | 2013 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Sweat Naked" | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "To Be Alone" (featuring Omar) | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "All That She Wants" (featuring SYF and Fritz Helder) | 2014 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Cause I Like It" | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "Sugar Man" (with DCUP) | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| "Soul Makossa (Money)" (with DCUP) | 2015 | – | – | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "MAMA YO!" (With Mayra Verónica) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "From Me to You" (with DCUP) [24] | 2016 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Xylophobia" (with Mason) [25] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "S.O.S. (Sound of Swing)" (with Kenneth Bager featuring Aloe Blacc) [26] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hacia la Noche" (with Massivedrum) [27] | 2017 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Musika" (featuring Kwanzaa Posse) [28] | 2018 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Chilimanjaro" (featuring Cut Snake) [29] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Dance and Chant" [30] | 2019 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Space Jam" [31] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "No More Sorrow" [32] | 2020 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Frisky in Forteleza" [33] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "To Be Alone" (featuring Omar) [34] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Emergency" (with Tommy Trash) [35] | 2021 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Launch" (with DJ Jean) [36] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Work Your Body" [37] | 2022 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Unity" [38] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Tiger Stripes" [39] | 2023 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Segunda" (featuring Jonjon) [40] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hip Trumpets" (featuring KVISION) [41] | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hold On" (with Piero Pirupa and Alexander Som) | 2024 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 2013 [42] | Ladies & Mentalmen | Best Independent Dance/Electronic Album | Nominated |
"Time After Time" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983). It was released as the album's second single in March 1984, by Epic and Portrait Records. Written by Lauper and Rob Hyman, who also provided backing vocals, the song was produced by Rick Chertoff. It was written in the album's final stages, after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "She Bop" and "All Through the Night" had been written or recorded. The writing began with the title, which Lauper had seen in TV Guide, referring to the 1979 film Time After Time.
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