No Doubt

This band, No Doubt, has been among the greatest contributors to the revival of ska in the 1990's. This third wave ska band that originated from the American soils of California made their mark in the music history through their worldwide hit album--The Tragic Kingdom. Though their music was not an instant success with the domination of the grunge movement the time the album was released, it soon penetrated the music industry with a big bang eventually creating a Diamond-certified (with 16,000,000 international sales) out of the album with the third single "Don't Speak" soaring at the topmost of the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay for 16 weeks.

No Doubt's long-running career that started out in 1986 as Apple Core, originally formed by John Spence, Eric Stefani, and Gwen Stefani. Tony Kanal soon became bassist eventually the boyfriend of Gwen whose relationship made way to one of their hit singles.

No Doubt revolutionized ska-pop, throughout their career as a band, putting in a bit of other genres to make their music distinctly theirs.

No Doubt is among my all-time favorites. Though they have disbanded some time ago and Gwen Stefani has gotten busy doing solos, but their music is still the first one to come into my mind when I hear "ska".

The unsteady line-up of No Doubt is currently composed of: Gwen on vocals, Tony Kanal on bass, Adrian Young on drums and percussion, and Tom Dumont on guitar and keyboards. When on tour, Stephen Bradley joins in on trumpet and Gabrial McNair on trombone, both also do keyboards.

Honestly it is among my dreams to be able to do No Doubt songs.. Still crossing fingers.. :)