Moffatts là ban nhạc gia đình có tuổi đời rất trẻ, vị thủ lĩnh của nhóm mới chỉ bước sang tuổi 17. Tuy nhiên, họ đã được cả thế giới biết đến và ngưỡng mộ. Kỷ niệm lớn nhất của nhóm có lẽ là buổi biểu diễn phục vụ cựu tổng thống Bill Clinton. Bốn anh em dễ thương nhà Moffatts: Scott, Clint, Bob và Dave của thập niên 90 sớm cùng nhau biểu diễn những bản nhạc đồng quê và gặt hái được tiếng vang lớn. Tuy nhiên sau đó, nhóm nhạc gia đình này lại theo đuổi dòng nhạc pop/rock, bắt đầu bằng việc ra album “The Moffats” vào năm 1995. Trong suốt 11 năm hoạt động của mình, The Moffatts đã đạt được nhiều thành công và để lại nhiều hit đình đám như: Bang Bang Boom, I'll Be There For You, If Life Is So Short, Girl Of My Dreams… Sau album đầu tiên, nhóm nhạc phát hành được thêm 2 albums nữa, Submodalities và Best of The Moffatts trước khi tan rã vào năm 2001.
Đặc điểm của anh em nhà Moffatts
Scott Andrew Moffatt
Ngày sinh: 30/3/83.
Màu mắt: xanh.
Màu tóc: nâu.
Biệt danh: Elvis.
Sở thích:
Màu sắc: đen và xanh đậm.
Xe hơi: Dodge Ram Pickup.
Thức ăn: bít tết, các loại bánh kem.
Đồ uống: nước khoáng thêm một lát chanh.
Diễn viên: Robert DeNiro, Neve Campbell.
Ban nhạc: Nirvana.
Nhạc sĩ: Eric Clapton.
Phim: Scream, 12 Monkeys.
Thể thao: bóng đá, câu cá, golf.
Album: Abbey Road (Beatles).
Ca khúc: Smell like Teen Spirit (Nirvana).Đặc điểm :
- Thuận tay trái và chơi guitar.
- Thủ lĩnh của nhóm.
- Kỷ niệm tuyệt vời nhất là được gặp ca sĩ Garth Brooks.
- Ở cùng phòng với Bob.
- Đai nâu môn karate.
- Rất mê tín và tin là có ma.
- Thích những cô gái nhiều tuổi hơn mình.
- Hay nói chuyện trong khi đang ngủ.
- Cô gái trong mơ của Scott là: thích thể thao, có tính hài hước và tốt bụng.
Clinton Thomas John Moffatt
Sinh nhật: 8/3/84.
Màu tóc: nâu.
Màu mắt: nâu.
Sở thích:
Màu sắc: xanh nước biển đậm và đen.
Nam diễn viên: Jim Carey.
Nữ diễn viên: Sandra Bullock.
Thể thao: bóng đá, bơi lội, câu cá, golf.
Phim: Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
Album: Reckless (Bryan Adams).
Ca khúc: Heaven (Bryan Adams).
Thức ăn: đồ ăn của McDonald.
Xe hơi: Dodge Viper.
Đặc điểm:
- Thích đi xe ngựa.
- Chung phòng với Dave.
- Đai nâu môn Karate.
- Hay đỏ mặt.
- Thích du lịch.
- Không thích ở chung phòng với Bob vì hai anh em sẽ nói chuyện suốt cả đêm.
- Nghiêm khắc.
David Michael William Moffatt
Ngày sinh: 8/3/84.
Màu tóc: nâu.
Màu mắt: nâu.
Biệt danh: Big D.
Sở thích:
Màu sắc: xanh.
Nam diễn viên: Bruce Willis.
Nữ diễn viên: Sandra Bullock.
Phim: Scream, Titanic.
Thể thao: bơi lội, bóng đá, câu cá.
Ban nhạc: Beatles.
Nhạc sĩ: Paul McCartney.
Album: White Album (Beatles).
Ca khúc: Ob-la-di Ob-la-da (Beatles).
Thức ăn: đồ ăn của Trung Quốc.
Đặc điểm:
- Ngáy rất to.
- Đai nâu môn Karate.
- Chuyên gây cười.
- Mê mẩn trò chơi điện tử.
- Bắt đầu hát năm mới lên ba.
- Cực kỳ lắm mồm.
- Vô cùng nhạy cảm.
- Thích hợp tác với Gil và Hanson.
- Tất cả các anh em đều nhất trí hắn điên rồ nhất trong bọn.
- Rất thích nấu ăn, món tủ là bánh và trứng chiên.
- Bố đỡ đầu là Dave Babytch (một cầu thủ hockey).
Robert Franklin Peter Moffatt
Ngày sinh: 8/3/84.
Màu mắt: nâu.
Màu tóc: nâu.
Biệt danh: Duke.
Sở thích:
Màu sắc: đen.
Ban nhạc: the Beatles.
Phim: Titanic, Jackel.
Thể thao: bóng đá, câu cá, golf.
Nam diễn viên: Sean Connery.
Nữ diễn viên: Sandra Bullock.
Nhạc công: Lars Ulrich.
Album: Black Album (Metallica).
Ca khúc: Push (Matchbox 20).
Đặc điểm:
- Đai nâu Karate.
- Chơi trống.
- Thích đem đến niềm vui cho mọi người.
- Thích được mọi người quan tâm.
- Rất thích được hợp tác với tất cả các thành viên còn lại của Beatles.
The Moffatts were a Canadian pop/rock band, composed of brothers Scott, Clint, Bob and Dave Moffatt. Scott was born on March 30, 1983 in Whitehorse, Yukon and triplets Bob, Clint and Dave were born in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 8, 1984. Bob and Clint are identical twins while Dave is a fraternal triplet. The band started out as a country music vocal group during their childhood, and rose to worldwide fame with their first pop album Chapter I: A New Beginning (1998). They released one more album Submodalities in 2000 before breaking up in 2001. The band reunited for an online Christmas show on December 22, 2012 on Stageit.
1987-1997: Early years and country albums
Growing up in Tumbler Ridge and later Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, The Moffatts learned singing early in their lives and singing country music with their mother, Darlana and father, Frank Moffatt, first appearing on-stage in 1987. In 1992, after performing at large-scale country music festivals, the group was nominated for five awards by the British Columbia Country Music Association. In 1992, the Moffatt family moved to Branson, Missouri where they performed at the Osmonds theatre. In March 1993 they moved to Nashville, Tennessee where they became regulars on TNN's Nashville Now with Ralph Emery. In October, they joined the cast of the Country Tonite show at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. In 1994 Country Tonite opened a new theatre in Branson and the Moffatts became a part of that cast. In June 1995 they released their first country album, titled The Moffatts. On July 3, 1995, they appeared on Good Morning America and performed "Guns of Love". In 1996, their parents divorced and they lived primarily with their father, who also managed the group until their 2001 break up.
1998-2000: Chapter I: A New Beginning and Submodalitie
In their teens, the group dropped out of the country music genre and recorded a new album, Chapter I: A New Beginning, and began singing pop/rock music. Prior to their teenage years the band would only sparingly perform their own instruments and had a back-up band, but now chose to do it alone with Scott on lead guitar, Clint on bass guitar, Dave on keyboards and Bob on drums. Lead vocals on the album were shared between Scott and Dave, however live they all took their turns.Chapter One sold more than two million copies worldwide and almost went double platinum in their native Canada. Chapter One was also very popular in Europe. It was produced in part by the Berman Brothers (who also worked for Hanson and Real McCoy) in New York and Toronto. The Ottawa based radio station Hot 89.9 declared them the best new band of 1998. One single on the US version of Chapter One, the Glen Ballard-produced "Until You Loved Me," appeared in the Drew Barrymore film, Never Been Kissed. "Misery" inChapter I: A New Beginning (US Version) is on the soundtrack of the movie Teaching Mrs. Tingle starring Katie Holmes. In 1999, the band appeared on the NBC TV show Hang Time in 1999, performing the song "Girl of My Dreams" for the school. In the same year, The Moffatts also did an episode of TV show Campbell Scramble, a show that Calgary's CTV sports newscaster Glenn Campbell made.
In 2000, they appeared on the Disney Channel show So Weird in the episode "Destiny". The Mofffatts also appeared frequently on "The Sally Jessy Raphael Show". During their stay in Koln Germany The Moffatts met a young German guitar player German teen idol Gil Ofarim and co-wrote with him what was to be his breakout first single "If You Only Knew". The follow-up album Submodalities was released in October 2000, and contained a more classic/harder edged rock flavor than typical "boy band" fare. The transition between the bubblegum pop of their prior album and the harder edge of the new was captured in the 2001 documentary, The Moffatts: Closing of Chapter One. The Moffatts wrote or co-wrote almost all of the album songs. Bob Rock, who has produced albums for such superstars as Metallica and Bon Jovi, produced Submodalities. The album was also certified platinum by the CRIA selling over 100,000 copies. The first single, "Bang Bang Boom" at that time was the fastest rising single to # 1 in Canadian music history and topped the retail singles chart in Canada.
2001-2011: Breakup and post-breakup ventures
On August 25, 2001, the group broke up following their concert in London, Ontario. After the break-up, Bob and Clint Moffatt briefly joined a group called Pusch and performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics. The band was later renamed Hidell, and lasted slightly over a year and released one album. In 2004, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced in a press release that Bob and Clint were "reunited" and appeared under the name "The Moffatts" for the railway's Holiday Train program, a mobile fundraiser for community food banks. In 2005, Scott also joined the tour. Bob eventually relocated to Ban Phe, Thailand, where he began working on an English singing contest with an educational organization called TEFL International. Bob convinced Clint to join him in Thailand and start a band called Same Same under the Sony BMG Music Entertainment label in 2006. As of 2011, Bob and Clint Moffatt reside in Nashville, Tennessee. They had been writing songs and performing under the name Two Bullet Parade, but later changed their name to Like Strangers.
They performed in venues around the Nashville metropolitan area. Scott Moffatt resurfaced in an Ontario-based band The Boston Post, named after the newspaper. The original lineup included Shawn Everett on drums, Jon Gant on guitar and Neal Gupta on bass. They released an EP titled It's 99PM in 2003. A video interview with Scott Moffatt from the Holiday Train show in Sparwood, BC on December 13, 2005 indicated that he planned to go solo and was recording in LA. On April 10, 2006, song previews from the upcoming independent release The Allegory of the City were put up on his music page along with the promise of a limited edition version soon being available for pre order. Scott also had been in Thailand producing a rock band called Slot Machine. Dave Moffatt eventually relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at first with aspirations of attending the University of Winnipeg and then deciding to launch an acting and modeling career. Dave appeared in a 2005 Winnipeg production of Miss Saigon and was a contestant on Canadian Idol, making it into the top 32 before being eliminated.
2012: Reunion
Beginning November 2012, The Moffatts was featured in LG's online campaign, "Life's Good". The campaign features their song "Bang Bang Boom" with altered composition and lyrics. The Moffatts reunited for the first time in over ten years for an online Christmas show on Stageit on December 22, 2012. The set list included Christmas carols and songs picked by fans from the entire Moffatts' catalog, including solo records and Like Strangers/Same Same's catalog.
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