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Terence Trent D’Arby

Talk about a throwback! And also talk about someone having an epic rise. After D’Arby released the album, Introducing The Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby, it sold over a million copies in three DAYS, and went on to sell more than 14 million copies. He was huge! He followed it with his sophomore effort, Neither Fish Nor Flesh, but that album didn’t do so well commercially, and it was panned by critics. Per the usual formula, the lack of success caused him to retreat from the music scene and the public scene in general for a while. D’Arby eventually stopped recording as Terence Trent D’Arby in by the mid-90s, and changed his name to Sananda Maitreya, and proclaimed, “Terence Trent D’Arby was dead… he watched his suffering as he died a noble death.” It was an attempt to throw shade at the real shadiness of the record industry. These days, Maitreya lives and records music in Italy, and occasionally tours under his new name.

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