Hennie Bekker
Greg Kavanagh (guitar)
Chris Sheppard (Samples, production)
Toronto dance groove meisters BKS (an acronym for the last names of the members) have a global background.
Bekker claims an African birth heritage and aclimitization in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa with musical backgrounds as a jazz musician, band leader, and producer of Dan Gibson's 'Solitudes' series; Kavanagh produced Carol Medina's 'Secret Fantasy' disc as well as the 'Canadian All Stars - A Tribute to Glenn Miller' and he is a guitarist; Sheppard is hailed as one of Canada's premiere radio DJs with his own syndicated radio program "Chris Sheppard Pirate Radio" which also spawned his 1994 compilation CD series.
The trio first cracked the US and Canadian dance charts with their 1992 debut single 'Living In Ecstasy' from the CD 'For Those About To Rave...We Salute You' -- which wound up on MuchMusic 'X-tendamix Dance Mix '93' CD compilation. The track went to No. 1 and sold 70,000 copies in Canada.
1993 saw the full album 'Dreamcatcher', featuring the hit title track, go to No.3 on the national dance charts.
BKS were able to follow that up with 1995' s 'Square Dance Song' as a team up with violinist Ashley MacIsaac. The tune went Top-5 on the Canadian singles charts. With high profile gigs at the annual CMVA's at MuchMusic and Molly Johnson's Kumbaya Festival at Ontario Place in Toronto they released one more disc, 'Astroplane', but failed to overwhelm the satiated Toronto dance scene.
In October 1997, Sheppard signed a development deal with BMG Canada and the result was the debut of his next act, Love Inc., in 1998.
Singles
1992 Living In Ecstasy (Quality)
1992 Talkin' Bout Love (Quality)
1993 Dreamcatcher (Quality)
1994 Swamp Thing (Quality)
1995 The Square Dance Song (I Wanna Go Higher) [with Ashley MacIsaac] (Quality)
1996 Astroplane (Quality)
Albums
1992 For Those About To Rave...We Salute You (Quality)
1993 Dreamcatcher (Quality)
1996 Astroplane (Quality)
Video
Compilation Tracks
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