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Headliner
Vanilla Ice Last time in Vancouver: 8 years ago

Venue

Clark County Fairgrounds

17402 N.E. Delfel Rd., 98642, Ridgefield, WA, US

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Doors open: 19:00

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Vanilla Ice biography

With 20 million albums sold, Vanilla Ice has truly made his stamp in the hip-hop market, since bursting onto the scene with his US number 1 record “To the Extreme” in 1989.

Born Robert Van Winkle, Vanilla Ice has built up a reputation as a rapper, actor, and television host. He hails from Dallas Texas but resided in Florida. It was after signing a record deal with a division EMI called SBK Records that he released “To the Extreme” which broke the record of being the first hip-hop single that topped the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It also broke the record of being the fastest selling hip-hop album of all time, maintaining the top spot for a total of sixteen weeks. It has since gone Platinum in the UK and 7x Platinum in the US, and 6x Platinum in Canada. On the album featured the song “Ice Ice Baby” which went to number 1 in four countries, and achieved Platinum certification in US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. There was also the song “Play That Funky Music” which didn’t quite match the success of its predecessor, but it still made it into the top 20 of six charts internationally.

“Extremely Live” followed the release of this album on March 6th 1991, which made it to number 30 in the US and 35 in the UK, being certified Gold in Canada and the US. Despite the outstanding global success of “To the Extreme”, Vanilla Ice didn’t match the success of that album with any of his following five full-length album releases. Fortunately his song “Ice Ice Baby” has featured on many compilation albums since, and on Jedward’s cover of the song where Vanilla Ice featured on the song himself. The song made it to number 2 in the UK Chart.

Live reviews

Vanilla Ice has evolved into many things since his smash hit “Ice Ice Baby”. For a while he was nothing but a joke and then kind of a normal guy next door.

He has had reality shows and terrible movies over the years but the fact is there are tons of people who can still sign every word to that song more than 20 years after it was released. There are not a lot musicians or rappers who can say the same.

I saw him him in a small club in Florida. It was more of a guest appearance than an actual show. He jumped on the stage during a set and did 3-4 of his songs. Of course he did “Ice Ice Baby” but he also did some other ones from that album including his other radio song “ Play that Funky Music”. The crowd was really pumped to see him and it was a great surprise. Everyone knew the words to the song. He was not dressed up and looked like a normal guy this look was much better than the cheesy one that he had in the 1990’s and really suited him better. It was a fun experience.

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