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GenreReggae, Pop
Albums25
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San Diego, California's Big Mountain evolved out of the bands the Rainbow Warriors and Shiloh around 1991.

They toured and played a diluted form of reggae with a line-up consisting of Quino (vocals), Lance Rhodes (drums, percussion), Billy Stoll (keyboards), Lynn Copeland (bass), James McWhinney (vocals) and Jamaican Tony Chin (lead guitar). Jerome Cruz was the original lead guitarist.

Their biggest hit was a cover of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way", thanks to being featured in the movie Reality Bites.

Big Mountain was also the first reggae band to perform in China.

Variations: Big Mountain; Big Mauntain, Bio Mountain

Big Mountain is an American band known for its remake of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way", which became a top 10 hit single in the US in early 1994, reaching No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 1 on the Mainstream Top 40 and No. 2 in the UK.

Much like UB40, American reggae band Big Mountain brought a very commercialized version of Jamaican music to the American mainstream when their cover of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" reached the Top Ten in early 1994. To the band's credit, though, their three albums contain reggae roots music combined with only several R&B-ish covers, and the lineup includes two Jamaicans with excellent credentials: rhythm guitarist Tony Chin and drummer Santa Davis — both of whom played with the Peter Tosh band and the Soul Syndicate.

Big Mountain was originally formed in San Diego as the Rainbow Warriors. After several years of dizzying lineups and two name changes — first to Shiloh and finally to Big Mountain — the group centralized around vocalist/guitarist Quino, with rhythm guitarist Jerome Cruz, drummers Gregory Blakney and Lance Rhodes, keyboard player Manfred Reinke, and bassist Lynn Copeland. That lineup released Wake Up on the Quality label in 1992 and charted "Touch My Light" early the following year. The single reached number 51 in America, but only one year later Big Mountain began to experiment with several different guitarists. After several changes, Tony Chin became available and joined Quino and Copeland with new additions Santa Davis, James McWhinney (percussion) and keyboard players Billy Stoll and Michael Hyde. During sessions for their second album, movie producer Ron Fair approached Big Mountain about recording a cover of "Baby, I Love Your Way" for his upcoming movie Reality Bites. Included on the soundtrack and the group's 1994 Unity album, the single reached number six in the U.S. and became a worldwide hit.

Despite Big Mountain's success on the commercial pop charts, most of the reggae community remained faithful to the band; the group headlined two consecutive Reggae Sunsplash festivals in Jamaica during massive world tours that crisscrossed Europe, North and South America, Asia and Indonesia. Third album Resistance was released in 1995, followed two years later by Free Up. [by John Bush of AllMusic.com]

Former members
Lynn Copeland – bass (1988–2013)
Gregory Blakney – drums (1988–1994)
Jerome Cruz – guitar (1988–1994)
Manfred Reinke – keyboards (1988–1994)
Lance Rhodes – drums (1988–1994)
James McWhinney – percussion, vocals (1994–2013)
Tony Chin – guitar (1994–2013)
"Grizzly" Richard Onslow– touring guitar (2015-2016)
Billy "Bones" Stoll – keyboards (1994–1998 )
Carlton "Santa" Davis – drums (1994–1998)
Carlos Arias – bass (2013)
Stephen Kamada – guitar (2013)
Tim Pacheco - vocals, percussion 2016

Current members
Joaquin "Quino" McWhinney – vocals, guitar (1988–present)
Michael Hyde – keyboards (1994–present)
Paul "Groove Galore" Kastick – drums (1998–present)
Richard "Goofy" Campbell – keyboards (1999–present)
Reggie Griffin – guitar, saxophone (2013–present)
Danny Lopilato – guitar, vocals (2013–present)
Andre Sias – drums (2013–present)
Luis Castillo – percussion, vocals (2013–present)
Jakob McWhinney – guitar (2013–present)
Michael Ortiz – bass (2013–present)

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