Hootie and the Toadfish
Hootie & the
Blowfish is an American rock band that was popular in the 1990s. They were
originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker,
Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. As of July 2010, the band had
charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five
studio albums; and their 1994 debut album, Cracked Rear View, was the 15th
best-selling album of all time in the US, having been certified platinum 16
times. The quartet met when they were
freshman at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Mark Bryan heard
Darius Rucker singing in the showers of the dorm they shared and was impressed
by his vocal ability. Bryan and Rucker began playing cover tunes as The Wolf
Brothers; eventually Bryan and Rucker hooked up with Felber, a former high
school band mate of Bryan's, and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld as Hootie &
The Blowfish. (The unlikely moniker was borrowed from the nicknames of two
college friends.) Rucker is often referred to as Hootie while his band is
referred to as The Blowfish. -Wikipidia