Bass is Base was a Canadian

Canada

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 R&B group from Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, active during the 1990s.

The band consisted of Chin Injeti

Chin Injeti

Chin Injeti is a singer, musician, and music producer who got his start as a founding member of Juno award-winning group Bass is Base, he continues to thrive as an artist releasing his recent solo album "D'tach" and its reworked version "Re'tach" . Working in genres ranging from country to rock...

 on bass

Bass guitar

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, Ivana Santilli

Ivana Santilli

Ivana Santilli is a Canadian R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist, who has recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the 1990s R&B/pop combo Bass is Base. Santili is presently signed to CP Records.-Early life and career:...

 on keyboards

Electronic keyboard

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, and MC Mystic (Roger Mooking

Roger Mooking

Roger Mooking is a Canadian chef and star of the series Everyday Exotic on the Cooking Channel. He is also a musician and a third generation restaurateur. He also currently appears in Heat Seekers with Aaron Sanchez on Food Network.-External links:*...

) on percussion. All three members contributed vocals, Injeti and Santilli as singers and Mystic as a rapper.

In addition to the early single "Funkmobile", which garnered the band a deal with A&M Records

A&M Records

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, the band had one breakout top 40 hit, "I Cry". Their debut album, First Impressions for the Bottom Jigglers, won a Juno Award

Juno Award

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

 in the Best R&B/Soul Recording category in 1995.

Santilli went on to a successful solo career, having now released three critically acclaimed albums. Injeti works as a producer and bass player; in 2005 he produced "hick-hop" artist Ridley Bent

Ridley Bent

Ridley Bent is a Canadian country singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bent was raised throughout Canada in a military family. He formally launched his musical career in 2000....

's debut release, Blam. Mooking briefly left the music business, and now works as an acclaimed chef in Toronto. He is currently an Executive Chef and Co-owner/partner at Kultura, Eatalia and Nyood. He is the host of a new television show on the Food Network

Food Network

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called Everyday Exotic. He also released an album of new material entitled Soul Food (September 2008).

Discography

• First Impressions for the Bottom Jigglers (1994)
• Memories of the Soul Shack Survivors (1995)