Sugar Ray

Sugar Ray released their debut album, Lemonade and Brownies, in the spring of 1995. Their second album, Floored, became double-platinum hit thanks to ‘Fly,’ a laid-back groove that was seemingly tailor-made for summertime. With help from reggae toaster Super Cat, ‘Fly’ set new airplay records at modern-rock radio and reigned as one of the summer’s most ubiquitous hits. Sugar Ray delivered their third album in early 1999. The title, 14:59, was a wry reference to Andy Warhol’s ’15 minutes of fame’ dictum, but as it turned out, the group’s time wasn’t up by a long shot. 14:59 wound up outselling its predecessor, eventually going triple platinum. The first single, the ‘Fly’-like ‘Every Morning,’ shot to number three on the pop charts and became the group’s second number one at modern-rock radio. Sugar Ray returned in the summer of 2001 with their self-titled fourth album, which entered the charts at number six and gave the band its first-ever Top Ten album; meanwhile, lead-off single ‘When It’s Over’ became another substantial hit in the familiar Sugar Ray mold. In 2009 they returned with the single ‘Boardwalk’ along with the album Music for Cougars.