Talent Overview

Steiner Talent has the pleasure of providing Arrested Development for personal appearances and performances for special events and corporate functions. To book Arrested Development for your corporate event, private party or performance venue through Steiner Talent, inquire about booking fees and availability by calling us at (866) 319-0050 or by filling in the details of your event by clicking here. One of our agents will respond to your request within 24 hours.

Appearance and performance fees for Arrested Development are determined by a number of factors, including availability, location of corporate or private event, date of event, tour routing schedule and Arrested Development's interest level of appearing at your event. Please be sure to be specific about your event, including your entertainment budget, so that we can help you decide on suitable entertainment for your event.

We look forward to helping secure Arrested Development on your date for your corporate event, private event or venue.

Biography

One of the major success stories of 1992, Arrested Development are a progressive rap collective fusing soul, blues, hip-hop, and Sly & the Family Stone-influenced funk with political, socially conscious lyrics. The group was founded in the late '80s by rapper Speech and DJ Headliner, who decided to make the transition to a more positive, Afrocentric viewpoint after hearing Public Enemy. Arrested Development's debut album took its title from the amount of time it took the group to secure a record contract; 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of... produced the hit single "Tennessee," a strongly spiritual track that hit the Top Ten and sparked the album to sell over four million copies. Its two follow-ups, "People Everyday" (a rewrite of Sly's "Everyday People") and "Mr. Wendal" did likewise. Accolades poured in; Arrested Development won Grammys for Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, and was named Rolling Stone's Band of the Year. The group returned one year later with Zingalamaduni, which some reviews hailed as a major work, though overall response was more ambivalent. In 1996, contrary to Speech's earlier assertion that the group would be around for ten or 12 years, Arrested Development officially broke up. Speech went solo, though his debut album failed to make an impact. In 2006, the band reunited and released Since the Last Time in Japan. A year later the album saw release in the U.S.

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Steiner Talent is the booking agent working on your behalf as an entertainment broker/producer for corporate functions, private engagements and special events and does not claim or represent itself as the exclusive booking agent, booking agency or management of Arrested Development, unless specified above. Because we are not the exclusive talent or booking agent for Arrested Development, we are unable to answer fan club information requests, fan mail, public relations inquiries, or provide contact information for Arrested Development. Our agency works exclusively with corporate event planners, private party planners, talent buyers and wedding planners and we cannot respond to inquiries regarding entertainers' availability inquiries that do not meet our guidelines.

We look forward to helping secure Arrested Development on your date for your corporate event, private event or venue.