Sugar Ray is a rock band from Orange County, California. The band formed in 1992 with the name
Shrinky Dinx, later changing it to Sugar Ray after the boxer Sugar Ray Leonard. They originally were a
funk metal band, however later releases abandoned this genre in favour of
pop rock. Their debut album,
Lemonade and Brownies, was released in 1995. It failed to produce a major hit. Their early work was strongly influenced by
funk,
punk,
alternative rock and straight-up
rhythm and blues, not a particularly fashionable combination at the time. Sugar Ray's first mainstream hit came in …
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