In the podcast, Alonzo Andrews speaks with the same unique inflection as his son. (Spoiler alert: Mariners pitcher Randy “The Big Unit” Johnson drinking beers during the pregame delay seems to be more of the culprit than Cal allegedly breaking his hand in a fight with actor Kevin Costner.) Sisqó’s dad is interviewed, and tells a story about how he was on top of the stadium trying to fix the outage. If you want to get as far as anyone has into the details of the rumors about that night and why the game was postponed, listen to the two-part podcast, “The Rumor,” produced last year, here and here.
In fact, Alonzo Andrews was working at Camden Yards the night the lights went out before what was supposed to be a night game against the Seattle Mariners in August 1997, during the later-stages of Cal Ripken’s Ironman streak. “Forever,” Sisqó told us about how long his dad has worked as an electrician around town. (He may have given you a floppy hat.) He got that job through his father, Alonzo Andrews, who worked at both stadiums as an electrical engineer, a job he also had at the Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium and currently has at the downtown Horseshoe Casino.
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For one, Sisqó actually briefly worked at Camden Yards as a teenager, and Memorial Stadium before that, handing out free giveaways to paying fans. (Cue up your memories of “All-Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun.”)įield passes to the concert are $25, as an add-on to a game ticket.Īside from the appropriate timeliness of the gig-Dru Hill formed in 1992, the same year Camden Yards opened-there are a few other notes of serendipity at work. The “I Love the 90s”-themed show also features Smash Mouth. They will take the field at Camden Yards for a live concert after the Orioles play the Pittsburgh Pirates as part of team’s daylong (and yearlong) 30th-anniversary celebration of the iconic ballpark. Why are we talking about them now? On Saturday night, three Baltimore-bred members of Dru Hill-Sisqó, Nokio, and Scola, who joined the group later-as well as the artist, Black, will regroup again.
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And they became world famous roughly 25 years ago singing sultry harmonies and a string of number-one R&B hits like “ How Deep Is Your Love,” featured in the movie Rush Hour. Named after Druid Hill Park, the group-originally comprised of the then-relatively unknown kids Mark “Sisqó” Andrews, Tamir “Nokio” Ruffin, Larry “Jazz” Anthony, and James “Woody” Green-started performing in Baltimore in the early 1990s, in part by singing for customers while working at a since-closed fudge-shop in Harborplace. A guy we, frankly, haven’t thought much about since middle school, but were thrilled to have a fun conversation with, along with the current iteration of Dru Hill, one of the best known acts to ever come out of the city. And blonde hair fame (at age 43, he still has it). Yes, unbelievably, it was Sisqó, of “Thong Song” fame (during the brief solo career that made him a household name). “This is Sisqó,” he said kindly, before answering each question. Every time their most famous member spoke up from his home studio, he made sure to introduce himself on the call. As Zoom calls of the past two years go, few have been better than the one we recently had with Baltimore-born R&B group Dru Hill.
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