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Latin freestyle duo Collage helped revitalize an all-but-abandoned style still reeling from its early-'90s loss of popularity. Collage was essentially vocalist Anthony Monteleone, along with producer/songwriter <a href="spotify:artist:7y3Tp6UiwlIg3O1BbfrWst">Adam Marano</a>, who also ran the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Viper+Records%22">Viper Records</a> label for which Collage recorded. <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Viper%22">Viper</a>'s parent label, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Metropolitan%22">Metropolitan</a>, issued the Viper's Freestyle Hit Parade compilation in 1994. It helped break the Collage single "I'll Be Loving You" nationally -- the song reached number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100 -- and revived the freestyle sound that had produced a number of club and pop hits during the late '80s. Collage's debut album, Chapter One, was released later that year and produced another hit in the follow-up "Gangster of Love." It also prominently featured female backup vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:3ORjiw8wkhpj3uqw9f6CPw">Denine</a>. Collage's success helped spark a renewal of interest in freestyle during the '90s (on a more underground rather than mainstream level), and <a href="spotify:artist:7y3Tp6UiwlIg3O1BbfrWst">Marano</a> went on to work with several other artists. The second Collage album, Chapter II: 1999, didn't appear for another five years. However, it still managed to produce a minor hit, "Angel." Chapter 3 was released in late 2001 and spawned the single "Tonight." Chapter 4 arrived six years later on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Amathus%22">Amathus</a> label. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi

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