90s pop star unrecognisable 33 years after smash hit song as he launches new album

IN 1992, duo Charles and Eddie changeable to planetary fame acknowledgment to their hit, Would I Lie To You?

The way remains to immoderate 1 of the astir defining songs of the era, and 33 years connected and 1 of the stars is keeping the euphony imagination alive.

Eddie Chacon released his latest album, Lay Low, astatine the extremity of January, with his dependable leaning much into soulful, chillout vibe implicit the years.

Shooting to fame successful the 90s alongside opus spouse Charles Pettigrew aft a accidental gathering connected the New York Subway, the pair's archetypal album, Duophonic, brought Would I Lie To You? to the masses.

At the time, Eddie was known for his long, back-length brownish hair, often wearing a leather overgarment adjacent to Pettigrew's much smart-casual appearance.

Now, helium sports a salt-and-pepper grey crop, and has exchanged his leather overgarment for plaid shirts and jeans.

Over the people of their clip unneurotic successful the band, the R&B duo released singles NYC and House Is Not A Home, and landed a spot connected the cult deed movie True Romance with Wounded Bird, a opus from their 2nd album, Chocolate Milk.

In 1997, the brace would spell their abstracted ways, but remained friends.

Sadly, Pettigrew would dice conscionable 4 years later, passing distant from crab astatine the property of 37.

Eddie spent clip distant from euphony aft the group's disbandment, moving arsenic a lensman successful a caller originative outlet.

He aboriginal admitted to The Guardian that helium had go disillusioned with the euphony manufacture aft failing to scope the heights of Would I Lie To You?

"My woman walked into my workplace and I was conscionable sitting there," helium said.

"She asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ I conscionable said, ‘Nobody’s listening.’ I turned everything off, walked out, and I ne'er went backmost for 10 years."

But successful 2020, Eddie started creating and releasing euphony again, launching medium Pleasure, Joy and Happiness. He has continued to bash euphony ever since.

His latest azygous from Lay Low, titled, Good Sun was inspired by Eddie’s past representation of his mother, who died from Alzheimer’s disease.

Speaking connected the song's release, Eddie explained: “Her default mounting was optimism; she was ever looking for the bully spot of sun. If the prima was implicit there, we each went implicit there.

“The opus is astir the sadness of losing her but the anticipation that she finds the bully sun.”