Ice MC (rapper)

Ice MC (born Ian Campbell, March 22, 1965) is a British rapper best known for the '90s eurodance hits "Take Away the Colour", "Think
About the Way" "and "It's a Rainy Day." The dance hits from Ice MC are most notable for being the first songs in the eurodance genre to
blend raggamuffin style rap with female singing choruses. Italian producer Roberto Zanetti (a.k.a. Robyx) and his music team produced all
of Ice MC's major hits while simultaneously producing other major '90s artists like
Double You, Alexia, and Corona.

Contents
Career
The first albums
The most successful hits
Collaboration with Masterboy
Album Production again with Roberto Zanetti
Some private Information and Next Releases of Ice MC
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
References
External links

Career

The first albums

In 1989 in Italy, Ice MC met singer and artist Roberto Zanetti (also as composer known as Savage and producer as Robyx). Their first
single called "Easy", made in a hip-house style, came out in 1989. It became successful all over Europe, reaching the top 5 in Italy and the
top 3 in Germany. The two next singles, "Cinema" and "Scream", and the subsequent debut album, Cinema (released later in 1990), were
also successful. In 1992 his second LP,My World, came out but failed to achieve the success of its predecessor
.

The most successful hits

His third album, Ice'n'Green, was released in 1994 and featured Alexia on vocals. Three of his most successful songs, "Think about the
Way", "It's a Rainy Day" and "Take Away the Colour", made the charts all over the world. For the third album Ice MC adopted an all new
dreadlocks look and utilized Jamaican style rap, known as raggamuffin. The album was also released in the US, where the two biggest
singles saw substantial club play and moderate dance music radio airplay. In 1995, Ice'n'Green – The Remix Album was released. This
contained various remixes of previous hit singles.

Collaboration with Masterboy

In 1996, Ice MC decided to leave Zanetti and Alexia due to some disagreements. Shortly after that a new album, Dreadatour, (produced by
Masterboy producer Enrico Zabler) was released. The hit from the album was "Give Me The Light", the second Single-Release from
"Dreadatour" was "Music For Money"also produced by Enrico Zabler from Masterboy also the Album-T
racks "Never Stop Believing" and
"It's Up To You". The Album "Dreadatour" itselfwas not a commercial success.

Album Production again with Roberto Zanetti

At the end of 2002, he decided to return to Italy and to contact Roberto Zanetti again. Together they started writing some new material and,
at the beginning of 2004, they began recording a new album,Cold Skool.

Some private Information and Next Releases of Ice MC

Campbell is also a painter, and sells his paintings via his website. In 2012 a new single "Out Tonight" featuring Giulia Gal was released
and in 2013 the new remixes by Enfortro & Dirty Disciples. In 2017, the single featuring Nico Heinz and Max Kuhn including an official
video were released.

Discography

Studio albums

Peak chart positions

Title Album details AUT FIN FRA GER SWE SWI Certifications
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Release date: 19 March 1990

Cinema Label: Galaxis – – – – – –
Formats: CD

Release date: 24 November

My World 1991 – – – – – –
Label: Polydor
Formats: CD

Release date: 5 September

1994
Ice'n'Green 34 4 5 41 31 31 SNEP:
Label: DWA (Dance World
Gold[7]
Attack)
Formats: CD

Release date: 1996

Dreadatour Label: Club Zone – – – 89 – –
Formats: CD

Release date: 19 April 2004

Cold Skool Label: DWA (Dance World – – – – – –
Attack)
Formats: CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles
 Peak chart positions
Title Year BEL Certifications Album
ITA AUT FIN FRA GER NLD SWE SWI UK
[8] [1] (FLA) [10] [11] [4] [12] [5] [13] [14]
[9]

"Easy" 1989 – 7 – – 17 3 – – 4 –
"Scream" – – – – – 14 – – – –
Cinema
"Cinema" 1990 – – – – – 36 21 – – –
"OK Corral!" – – 43 – – – – – – –
"People" – – – – – – – – – –
"Happy 1991
– – – – – – – – – – My World
Weekend"
"Rainy Days" 1992 – – – – – – – – – –
"Take Away the
1993 19 11 15 – 31 – – 18 – –
Colour"
"Think About the
3 22 3 18 14 14 11 13 10 38
Way" Ice'n'Green
1994
"It's a Rainy SNEP:
1 13 2 9 6 14 8 25 15 73
Day" Silver[15]

Ice'n'Green
"Take Away the
– The
Colour ('95 1995 – – – 16 31 – 25 – – –
Remix
Reconstruction)"
Album
"Give Me the
23 30 44 19 23 48 – 56 42 –
Light"
1996
"Music for
– – – 12 – – – – – – Dreadatour
Money"
"Let's Take It
1997 – – – – – – – – – –
Easy"
"It's a Miracle" 39 – – – – – – – – –
2004 Cold Skool
"My World" – – – – – – – – – –
Non-Album
"Out Tonight" 2012 – – – – – – – – – –
Single
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other Singles:

- 1997: "Energy" (Original Soundtrack "Wilde Zeiten")

- 1997: "Bebop The Night" (Original Soundtrack "W

ilde Zeiten")

- 1998: "Busy Body" (Unreleased Single produced by Gary Jones, one of the Co-Producer from E-Rotic)

- 2013: "Out Tonight" (Enfortro vs. Dirty Principle Edit)

- 2017: "Do The Dip" (feat. Nico Heinz & Max Kuhn)

References
1. "Discographie Ice MC"(http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Ice+MC)(in German). austriancharts.at. Hung
Medien. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
 2. Peak positions for Finland:

For Ice 'N Green: Billboard: Hits of the World (Nov. 5 1994) (https://books.google.com/books?id=YwgEAAAAMBAJ&lp
g=PA57&dq=Ice%20MC-Ice%20N%20Green&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q=Ice%20MC-Ice%20N%20Green&f=false) .
Billboard magazine. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
3. Peak positions for France:

For Ice 'N Green: Billboard: Hits of the World (Feb. 4 1995)(https://books.google.com/books?id=sAsEAAAAMBAJ&lp
g=PA70&dq=Ice%20MC-Ice%20N%20Green&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=Ice%20MC-Ice%20N%20Green&f=false) .
Billboard magazine. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
4. "Charts.de: Charterfolge von Ice MC"(http://www.officialcharts.de/artist.asp?name=Ice+MC&country=de)
. Media Control
(in German). Charts.de. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
5. "Swedishcharts.com: Ice MC"(http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Ice+MC)
. Swedishcharts.com. Hung
Medien. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
6. "Hitparade.ch: Ice MC (albums)"(http://swisscharts.com/search.asp?cat=a&artist=Ice+MC&artist_search=starts&title=&titl
e_search=starts) (in German). swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
7. "SNEP: Les certifications (Ice MC)"(http://www.snepmusique.com/les-disques-dor/?awards_cat=0&awards_awd=0&awar
ds_artist=Ice+MC&awards_title=&awards_edit_distrib=&submitAdvanced=Rechercher) (in French). Syndicat National de
l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
8. "Hit Parade Italia: Indice per Interprete: I"(http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/indici/per_interprete/ai.htm). FIMI (in Italian).
Retrieved 16 March 2014.
9. "Ultratop: Ice MC" (http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Ice+MC). Ultratop. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
10. Peak positions for Finland:

For Give Me the Night and Music for Money: "Finnishcharts.com: Ice MC"(http://finnishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=
s&artist=Ice+MC&artist_search=starts&title=&title_search=starts)
. Finnishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved
16 March 2014.
11. "Lescharts.com: Ice MC"(http://lescharts.com/search.asp?cat=s&artist=Ice+MC&artist_search=starts&title=&title_search=
starts). Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
12. "Media Marks Top 40: Ice MC" (http://www.top40.nl/top40-artiesten/ice-mc). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
13. "Hitparade.ch: Ice MC (singles)"(http://swisscharts.com/search.asp?cat=s&artist=Ice+MC&artist_search=starts&title=&titl
e_search=starts) (in German). swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
14. "Official Charts Company: Ice MC"(http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/ice%20mc/). Official Charts Company. Retrieved
16 March 2014.
15. "Infodisc: Les Certifications depuis 1973"(https://www.webcitation.org/697lSTfwO?url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Single_Certif.
php). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique(in French). Archived fromthe original (http://www.infodisc.fr/Single_
Certif.php) on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

External links
Official website
Booking ICE MC

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