Yogi B
| Poetic Ammo | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Genres | rap, hip-hop |
| Years active | 1996-2004 |
| Labels | Positive Tone |
| Past members | Yogi B Landslyde C. Loco Point Blanc |
Poetic Ammo (previously known as PMO or Poetic Ammunition) was a Malaysian rap/hip-hop group. The group consisted of Yogeswaran Veerasingam (a.k.a. Yogi B), Chandrakumar Balakrishnan (a.k.a. Land Slyde), Nicholas Ong (a.k.a. Point Blanc), and Sashi Kumar Balakrishnan (a.k.a. C. Loco.) Although most of the group's songs were written in English, they also released tracks in Malay, Tamil, and Cantonese.
The group was founded by Yogi B in 1990. Originally known as Poetic Ammuniton aka PMO, the original members Yogi B and Anand aka McEna. PMO released a two song single with Kenny Music (Kenny Remy Martin) "Run" and "Only You", released under Positive Tone.
Anand later left PMO and Yogi B started a talent search for new members. That is where brothers Landsylde and C Loco together with Point Blanc from Ipoh joined him and they became known as Poetic Ammo.
Their first album, entitled It's a Nice Day to be Alive, was released in 1998, and received positive reviews and several awards.This was followed by their second album, entitled The World is Yours (2000). Their third album was entitled Return of Tha' Boombox. The band has won numerous awards including the "Best English Album" award in the Malaysian Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM) Music Awards 1999. They also won the "Best Music Video" awards in the AIM in 2000 and 2001. The music video "Money Money" was accepted very positively nationally and even crossed over many countries and achieved mainstream success. Their albums were released in Indonesia by EMI Indonesia. Their albums and singles were also released in Europe by OAG.
Yogi B released an album titled Vallavan in 2009 with collaboration of Natchatra. It became a huge hit album in for Malaysian Hip Hop music industries and also has become well known in South India with one of their remix track "Madhai Thiranthu" song. They were invited to sing the song as an opening song "Siva Siva" and "Madhai Thiranthu" song in the middle of Star Vijay TV Awards show held at India. They are often referred as Kavidhai Kundargal. Yogi B and his team, Emcee Jezz and Dr.Burn have sung the 1st Tamil movie song, which the music composed by Kollywood (Tamil), Vidyasagar and also have made 1st appearance in the movie Kuruvi, starring Vijay, during a song number. After few years Yogi B was approached by music director G. V. Prakash Kumar, to produce and perform in a song alongside S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, for the movie "Polladhavan", starring Dhanush. Yogi B also has worked with India's world known composer and music director, A. R. Rahman twice, for movie "Ghajini(Hindi Film)". He has also collaborated again with music for the movie "Enthiran"
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