Champaign took it is name from it is home town of Champaign, IL. The group was an interracial septet composed of performers Pauli Carman and Rena Jones, guitarist Howard Reeder, keyboardists Michael Day time and Dana Walden, bassist Michael Reed, and percussionist Rocky Maffitt. They strike a commercial maximum making use of their 1981 debut recording, How ‘Bout Us, whose name track was popular single (Best Five within the U.K. and on the U.S. R&B graph). Follow-ups included Contemporary Center (1983) (which include the very best Ten R&B strike “Try Once again”) and Female in Flames (1984), offering the R&B TOP hit “On / off Love.”