Mint Condition

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Mint Condition is an R&B band from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Formed in the mid 1980s at Central High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Its original members were Stokley Williams (lead vocals, drums, percussion), Homer O'Dell (guitar), Larry Waddell (keyboards, piano), Roger Lynch son of Roger Troutman, Ray Coleman, & Kenny Young. Lynch, Coleman, & Young all left the group however and were replaced by schoolmates Keri Lewis (keyboards, synthesizer) & Jeffrey Allen (saxophone, keyboards) and also joining Ricky Kinchen (bass guitar) a Chicago native. Currently, the line-up of Williams, O'Dell, Waddell, Allen, & Kinchen remains intact, with the exception of Lewis, who left the group to focus on his marriage to Toni Braxton & produce for her & other artists. The group is well known for its highly diverse musical style (able to play anything from traditional jazz stylings to mainstream R&B and rock-based music to funk grooves and even Latin and Jamaican-based rhythms) and also its captivating live performances. The band is also well known for their well written and produced R&B ballads, mainly in the 1990s. They mostly known for their hits "Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)" (1991) and "What Kind of Man Would I Be" (1996). By popular vote, the group was inducted into The SoulMusic Hall Of Fame at SoulMusic.com in December 2012.

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