WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Ultimate Kaos

Some girls liked Ultimate Kaos, others liked their hoochie booty, so what happened?

It was a then un-Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell who created the boy band Ultimate Kaos from six young boys aged between 9 and 14, Jomo Baxter, Jayde Spence, Ryan Elliott, Nick Grant, Shaun Barker (later known as Bruza) and Haydon Eshun, in 1992, having been dancers for Simon’s main pop ‘interest’, Sinitta. Originally known as ‘Chaos’, the group recorded a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Farewell My Summer Love” in 1992 and it went to No.55 in the UK. Spending most of 1993 and 94 at school, the group surfaced again at the end of 1994 with “Some Girls”, which gave them a top ten hit at home and would become the first of six top 40 charting singles there.

They retured to the top twenty in early 1995 with “Hoochie Booty”, just before their self-titled debut album arrived in April that year. Two more hits, “Show A Little Love” and “Right Here” came in 1995, before the boys knuckled down to revise for their exams, returning in 1997 for a cover of LeVert’s 1987 top ten hit, “Casanova”, which Ultimate Kaos released twice, the first time making No.24 in the UK and No.29 in 1998, this time the song was a top twenty hit across Europe and also in Australia. Their follow up album, “The Kaos Theory”, came later in 1998, but neither it or the three other singles released from it did anything, and the group were dropped by Sony Records in 1999.

Most of the boys disappeared but Haydon attempted a solo career in 2009, appeared on stage and also put himself forward for a possible entry in the Eurovision Song Contest! Shaun Barker adopted the name ‘Bruza’ and has released a number of singles, while Jomo Baxter left the industry to form a courier company! They were Britain’s answer to the Jackson’s in the mid-90’s, but interest was not right there for long. Well, that’s the theory anyway.