Kid Creole

Kid Creole

Born: August 12, 1950
in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Thomas August Darnell Browder, aka August Darnell--who goes by the stage name Kid Creole--is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his half-brother Stony Browder Jr., then went on to form and lead Kid Creole and the Coconuts. The latter band, with its trio of backing female singers (dubbed the Coconuts), draw upon musical influences as disparate as salsa, no wave, jazz, disco, pop music and big band. Darnell has written and produced for other artists and bands, such as Machine and Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9. He and the Coconuts have also contributed songs to numerous motion picture soundtracks, including "My Male Curiosity" for Against All Odds (1984).

Movies for Kid Creole...

Buckle Up
Title: Buckle Up
Character: Himself
Released: July 6, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of ex-banger racer Jack Elger who has to honor his brothers gambling debt by picking up a rare diamond necklace from an Arab prince off the coast of Cornwall and bring it back to London before he his killed. The trick is to stay alive as they race through the streets of London's Westend dodging bullets in the process.
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Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day
Title: Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Fatherhood has proved a great subject for a variety of artists - some celebratory, some conflicted, but all inspired by what dad does and doesn't do. Here's a mixture of songs that celebrate and probe the emotional complexities generated by the sometime head of the household. Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Paul Simon, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Mike and the Mechanics, Suggs and the Blockheads, Neil Young, James Brown, Pigbag and even Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter Kelly put in an appearance, making a cracking compilation for Father's Day.
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Mood Indigo
Title: Mood Indigo
Character: Duke Ellington
Released: January 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
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Kid Creole and The Coconuts – Live At Rockpalast 1982
Title: Kid Creole and The Coconuts – Live At Rockpalast 1982
Released: October 8, 2012
Type: Movie
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Best of Night of the Proms Vol.  5
Title: Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 5
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Best of Night of the Proms 5
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Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 4
Title: Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 4
Character: self
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Best of Night of the Proms 4
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Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3
Title: Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
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Be Kind Rewind
Title: Be Kind Rewind
Character: West Coast Video Employee Passaic
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
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Downtown '81
Title: Downtown '81
Character: August Darnell
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
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Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Live In Paris 1985
Title: Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Live In Paris 1985
Released: September 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Kid Creole & The Coconuts recorded in concert.
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Only You
Title: Only You
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.
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Bad Girls
Title: Bad Girls
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The Italian erotic thriller Cattive ragazze (Bad Girls) was directed by gossip columnist Marina Ripa Di Meana, and stars Eva Grimaldi as a recently divorced woman falling in love with a male stripper, alongside a cast of big names such as Anita Ekberg and Burt Young.
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The Forbidden Dance
Title: The Forbidden Dance
Character: Kid Creole
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.
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Identity Crisis
Title: Identity Crisis
Character: Thrift Shop Man (as August Darnell)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.
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Obsession: A Taste for Fear
Title: Obsession: A Taste for Fear
Character: Bookmaker
Released: December 9, 1988
Type: Movie
Diane is a photographer of the ultimate in trendy soft core. Her ex, George, who makes bondage films, hooks Diane up with the muscular Teagan in exchange for a favor with a well-heeled client. Diane asks Teagan to model in her next shoot. When Teagan turns up bound, gagged, and dead, a rough policeman, Lt. Arnold, focuses his suspicions on George. When a second model dies and video disks show up depicting the murders, Arnold is certain he has his man - except that the killer we see in the videos is a red-headed woman. Diane's assistant, Valerie, can't keep her eyes off Diane, and Diane's mixer, Paul, also tries to be her protector. Do the cops have the wrong person?
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Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Live in Montreal
Title: Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Live in Montreal
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.