Jamiroquai est un groupe de musique britannique, mené par le chanteur Jason Kay|Jay Kay. C'est à Londres, au début des années 1990, qu'il se fait une place dans le mouvement acid jazz, alors en plein essor. Jamiroquai impose très vite son style parmi les groupes de l'époque (Incognito (groupe)|Incognito, Brand New Heavies, Galliano (groupe)|Galliano ou lien|trad=Corduroy (band)|fr=Corduroy). Le groupe a acquis une renommée mondiale, tout en ayant su faire évoluer sa musique. Son dernier album en date est ''Automaton'', sorti en 2017.Le nom Jamiroquai est un mot-valise : « Jam session|jam » est un terme de jazz qui fait référence à l'improvisation musicale, et « iroquai » fait référence à une tribu amérindienne, les Iroquois.English acid jazz band pp|small=yes November 2024 Use British English March 2020 Infobox musical artist | name = Jamiroquai | image = Jamiroquai 2018 Coachella18W1-121 (27188172187).jpg | landscape = yes | alt = The band Jamiroquai performing on stage at Coachella 2018. At center is vocalist Jay Kay wearing a colorful Native-American shirt with frills around the waist and a white LED head-dress. Also present are a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer and two female backing vocalists. The band is engulfed in roughly waist-level stage fog colored purple by stage lighting. | caption = Jamiroquai performing at the Coachella Music Festival in 2018 | origin = London, England | genre = hlist|Funk|acid jazz|Soul music|soul|disco|House music|house|Contemporary R&B|R&B | years_active = 1992–present | label = hlist|Acid Jazz Records|Acid Jazz|S2 Records|Sony Sohosup/2/The Work Group|Work|Epic Records|Epic|Mercury Records|Mercury|Virgin EMI Records|Virgin EMI | associated_acts = | website = url|jamiroquai.com * Jay Kay * Derrick McKenzie * Sola Akingbola * Rob Harris * Matt Johnson (keyboardist)|Matt Johnson * Paul Turner (bassist)|Paul Turner | past_members = * Nick Van Gelder * Stuart Zender * Toby Smith * Wallis Buchanan * Simon Katz * Nick Fyffe ''Jamiroquai'' (IPAc-en|audio=Jamiroquai.ogg|dʒ|ə|ˈ|m|ɪr|ə|k|w|aɪ respell|jə|MIRR|ə|kwy) are an English acid jazz and funk band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on their acid jazz sound in their early releases and later drew from Rock music|rock, disco, Electronic music|electronic and Latin music genres. Lyrically, the group have addressed Social justice|social and environmental justice. Kay has remained the only constant member through several line-up changes. The band made their debut under Acid Jazz Records but subsequently found mainstream success under Sony Music|Sony. While under this label, three of their albums have charted at number one in the UK, including ''Emergency on Planet Earth'' (1993, ''Synkronized'' (1999, ''A Funk Odyssey'' (2001, and the band's single, "Deeper Underground" (1998). As of|2017, Jamiroquai had sold more than 26nbspmillion albums worldwide. Their third album, ''Travelling Without Moving'' (1996, received a Guinness World Record as the best-selling funk album in history. The music video for its second single, "Virtual Insanity", also contributed to the band's success. The song was named MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year|Video of the Year at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards and earned the band a 40th Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Award in 1998.
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