They first approached Tommy Boy Records, the rap music subsidiary of Warner Brothers, with their demo, but they were told that they were too much like alternative hip-hoppers De La Soul, and not hardcore or ghetto, and were turned away. The group's first demo tape was created using $600 that Prince Be had earned through his job as a night security guard at a homeless shelter. Cordes, known by his stage name Prince Be, and his younger brother, Jarrett Cordes, known as DJ Minutemix, formed P.M. Īttrell Cordes began DJing parties and composing songs in ninth grade.
The two elder brothers were raised by their mother and their stepfather George Brown, a founding member of Kool & the Gang.
Further family tragedy occurred when their baby brother, Duncan, drowned at the age of two. The Cordes brothers' father died of pneumonia when they were children. Dawn continued to receive strong reviews, but sold poorly with their subsequent albums Jesus Wept (1995) and Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Their 1993 follow-up The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence) was also praised by critics and featured the hit singles 'I'd Die Without You' and 'Looking Through Patient Eyes'. It achieved immediate commercial success because of its single 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss'.
Dawn released their first album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience in 1991 to critical acclaim. Īfter recording their debut single 'Ode to a Forgetful Mind' in 1988, P.M. They earned significant crossover success in the early 1990s with music that merged hip hop, older soul, and more pop-oriented urban R&B. Dawn is an American R&B and Hip Hop act, formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known by his stage name Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (known as DJ Minutemix) in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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