P.M. Dawn is a hip hop/R&B musical group, formed by brothers Attrell Cordes (a.k.a. Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (a.k.a. DJ Minute Mix), in 1988 in Jersey City, New Jersey.The Cordes brothers' father died of pneumonia when they were children. Further family tragedy saw their baby brother Duncan drowned at the age of two. The two elder brothers were raised by their mother, and their stepfather George Brown, a founding member of Kool & the Gang. Group history P.M. Dawn's 1991 début album The Utopian Experience featured the international hit "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", which sampled the Spandau Ballet song "True" (and the music video of the song features a cameo by Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley singing the refrain) and Eric B. and Rakim's "Paid in Full", and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week on the week of November 30, 1991; and also reached #3 in the United Kingdom. The follow-up single "Paper Doll" peaked at

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