American R&B/hip hop band that formed in Kansas City, Missouri and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Comprised of Lance LA Alexander, André Dré Shepard, Tyrone T-Bone Yarbrough, Darron D Story, Tony Prof. T Tolbert.
Their single, I Got A Thang 4 Ya! (1993), reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart, and No. 27 on the Hot 100.
Lo-Key? formed in Kansas City, Missouri and Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of singer/trumpeter Darron D Story, singer/multi-instrumentalist Andre Dre Shepard, bassist Tyrone T-Bone Yarbrough, producer/keyboardist Lance Alexander, and rapper/singer Tony Prof-T Tolbert. The group honed their skills around the Minneapolis club circuit, where Alexander and Tolbert became in-house producers for Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis' Flyte Tyme Productions. The group signed to Jam & Lewis' record label, Perspective Records, and released their debut album, Where Dey At?, on October 6, 1992. They had a hit with the single I Got A Thang 4 Ya! in 1992, which spent a week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart, and reached No. 27 on the Hot 100. Arthur Jafa, director of photography for the independent film Daughters of the Dust (1991), directed the video for the single.
Alexander and Tolbert also were hitmaking songwriters and producers in their own right. Among the hit songs they've produced for other artists were Butta Love by the group Next, Love Makes No Sense for Alexander O'Neal, I Wish for Shanice and Strawberries for Smooth. Tolbert continued to work with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, appearing as a songwriter and background vocalist on albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Janet Jackson and Usher.