How Jay Sean and Taio Cruz took America by storm

Jay Sean and Taio Cruz have achieved something very few British acts have managed – selling R&B and urban pop back to the US. They tell Lola Adesioye how they did itEvery few years, the US charts are subject to what is always called a "British invasion". In 1965 alone, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Manfred Mann, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits and the Dave Clark Five all reached No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the early 80s, ...

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