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London, United Kingdom (1994 – 2002)

Smoke City was a London, UK band whose music blended modern styles like acid jazz and trip hop with Brazilian styles like samba and bossa nova. Vocalist Nina Miranda formed Smoke City around 1994 with former schoolmate Mark Brown and guitarist Chris Franck, formerly of the Brighton-based Brazilian percussion group Batu.

Smoke City are best known for their single Underwater Love, which was a major hit in 1996. The music video is notable for predating the film The Matrix in its use of bullet time motion.

In 1997 the band released their first album, Flying Away, which included several hits like Underwater Love and Mr. Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous).

While Flying Away was hard to classify because it had everything from light trip-hop to gentle guitar ballads, Smoke City’s next album, Heroes of Nature (released in 2001), was considered too odd even by fans, combining even more styles and incorporating dance beats in some of the tracks. An extended version of Heroes of Nature had three more tracks than the original, one of them being a cover of John Lennon’s famous song Imagine.

The group disbanded in 2002.

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1		Underwater Love			979
2		What It Was (acoustic)			364
3		Can You Feel That?			328
4		It's Amazing			310
5		Mr. Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous)			132
6		With You			121
7		Flying Away			103
8		Jamie Pan			88
9		Numbers			87
10		Underwater Love (Radio Edit)			86
11		Dark Walk			81
12		Devil Mood			79
13		Underwater Love - Radio Edit			78
14		Giulietta			54
15		They Can't Take That Away From Me			49

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