Scott Moffatt (guitar)
Clint Moffatt (bass)
Dave Moffatt (keyboards)
Robert "Bob" Moffatt (drums)
The Moffatts are from Victoria, British Columbia and feature triplets Clint, Bob and Dave and older sibling Scott (guitar).
Often compared to American brother act Hanson, the Moffatts have been making music longer (starting when the brothers were 3 and 4 respectively) and have actually been cited as an influence on the Hansons.
Their first music experience was recording the Wynonna Judd song "Grandpa" for their grandfather as a Christmas present. As they began planning for a musical career, they soon convinced their father, Frank, to grab his guitar and help them busk at the Victoria ferry to raise money for a trip to Disneyland.
They started as a professional Country act in 1994 after a move with their father and stepmother to Nashville while tutoring at home instead of going to public school. They became the youngest country performers ever to be signed to a major label deal and gained 15 minutes of instant fame by developing the Caterpiller Crawl line-dance craze.
Their first gig was at the West Edmonton Mall and although they performed very seldom in Canada, they did make more than 200 national TV appearances in the U.S., played over a 1000 live dates over four years and sold a quarter-million copies of its last album.
Soon they were injecting their live sets with liberal doses of rock material and soon decided to make a switch to the pop genre because it was the music they were growing up listening to with influences ranging from Van Halen to Bryan Adams to Bush.
The Moffatts debut album 'Chapter 1: A New Beginning" featured the 1998 Top 40 single "I'll Be There For You" which was co-written and co-produced by the Berman Brothers, who also mixed, not co-incidentally, Hanson's hit single "MMMBop".
The album has currently sold nearly half a million copies worldwide. A promotional and performance tour begun at the beginning of 1998 has taken them to Europe and the Pacific Rim and back and has made their second single "Miss You Like Crazy" No.1 in Asia.
In 1999, the brothers were brought together with hugely successful producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith, Michael Jackson), with whom they recorded four new songs. Those, along with one additional track, were featured on a new version of 'Chapter 1', which was released worldwide on June 1, 1999.
Singles
1994 The Caterpillar Crawl (Polydor/Polygram)
1998 I'll Be There For You [4 songs](EMI)
1998 Miss You Like Crazy [3 songs](EMI)
1999 Until You Love Me (EMI)
Albums
as THE MOFFATT BROTHERS
1988 It's A Wonderful World [11 song independent]
as THE MOFFATS
1994 The Moffats [10 songs] (Polydor/Polygram)
1995 The Moffats [alternate release] (Home Shopping Network) [contains 10 songs from 'The Moffats' and 5 songs from 'It's A Wonderful World']
1996 It's A Wonderful World [10 song re-issue] (Polydor/Polygram)
1998 Chapter 1: A New Beginning (EMI)
1999 Chapter 1: A New Beginning (re-release, with five new songs) (EMI)
EPs
1998 Crazy [EP] (EMI) [Crazy/Say'n I Love You/Girls Of The World]
Video
1994 The Caterpillar Crawl
Compilation Tracks
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