Group 1 Crew

Balancing strength and memories, popular Christian hip-hop/dance-pop collective Group 1 Team are led by their one consistent member, Jose “Manwell” Reyes. The group created in Orlando, Florida in the middle-2000s, settling right into a lineup fronted from the performing trio of Reyes, Blanca Callahan (after that heading by her maiden name, Blanca Reyes, no connection), and Pablo Villatoro. That they had a hit using their 1st single, “Can’t CONTINUE,” a variety of melodic pop, rap, and Caribbean rhythms. It had been included on the I’VE a Desire EP, released by Fervent Information in past due 2006. The track also appeared around the WOW Strikes 2007 collection. An eponymous full-length debut adopted early in 2007 and included the solitary “Forgive Me,” that was featured with an episode of it episode One Tree Hill. That LP managed to get into the Best 40 of Billboard’s Christian Albums graph. Later that 12 months, they released the EP No Strategy B, with the normal Dreamers LP arriving in the summertime of 2008. It got in the very best 20. They released two even more EPs, Movin’: The EP and Spacebound, before their third record, 2010’s Outta Space Appreciate saw discharge and climbed to number 4, their highest graph position to time. It also proclaimed their debut for the Billboard 200. Villatoro still left the group in 2011, and, behind the singles “He Said” and “His Sort of Like,” 2012’s Fearless came back the rest of the duo towards the Christian TOP. Callahan after that announced she was departing to spotlight family members and a single profession. With Reyes as the only real face from the task, 2014 brought a set of EPs entitled #Faster and #Stronger, which highlighted guests such as for example Christian EDM group Capital Kings and vocalist Moriah Peters. Still with Fervent, their 5th long-player, Power, continuing Group 1 Crew’s streak of charting albums.