All-4-One

Jingles in the Antelope Valley

The group did not come out of a talent search or a label development deal. Jamie Jones, Tony Borowiak and Alfred Nevarez were singing advertising jingles for a radio station in California's Antelope Valley when producers Tim O'Brien and Gary St. Clair pulled them in to cut a remake of "So Much in Love" for Blitzz, a small imprint distributed through Atlantic. Delious Kennedy was added to make a quartet; O'Brien supplied the name.

That first single crept into the UK chart at number 60 in April 1994 and looked like the end of the story rather than the beginning. What changed everything was a cover of "I Swear", a country single that the group recorded so late in the sequencing of their debut album that the pressing plant had already run artwork without it. Released in the spring of 1994, it spent eleven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number two in Britain, where it clung on for twenty-five weeks — still, by a distance, the longest run of anything they have put out there.

The self-titled debut followed it up the charts, peaking at seven on the Billboard 200 and eventually certified four times platinum in the United States. In February 1995 the group took the Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Britain never took the album to the same degree: it stopped at 25 and lasted five weeks.

The records that did the work

Seven studio albums sit behind the live show. The 1994 debut and And the Music Speaks, released the following year and certified platinum, account for most of the material an audience recognises. The second record carried "I Can Love You Like That", another remake, which reached 33 in the UK in July 1995 and put a second crossover ballad permanently into the set.

Soundtrack work broadened the catalogue in ways the singles chart does not record. "Someday" was written for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996 and remains one of the few songs in the live set that arrived through a film rather than a radio campaign; the group also contributed to the Space Jam soundtrack. A Christmas album, live recordings and compilations fill out the rest.

The run of albums after that reads as a group working steadily rather than chasing the 1994 result. On and On came in 1999, A41 in 2002, Split Personality in 2004, No Regrets in 2009 and Twenty+ in 2015, the last marking two decades and revisiting the material that made them. Twenty+ is still the release the group's own website points visitors towards for streaming — there has been no studio album since.

Leaving Atlantic, and what came after

Disputes over the deal ended the relationship with Blitzz and Atlantic after the 1999 album, and from that point the group released independently. In commercial terms that was a demotion. In practical terms it changed almost nothing about what they do, because by then the audience had moved from radio to rooms.

Asia became a substantial part of the business through the 2000s, and the group toured there heavily while the American schedule settled into casinos, theatres and nostalgia package bills. The four members have kept the line-up intact across the whole of it — Jones, Kennedy, Nevarez and Borowiak, with no replacements, which is rare for any vocal group of that vintage.

Outside the group, Kennedy co-founded the Catalina Film Festival and has hosted a celebrity interview programme, Flashback Tonight. Jones has released solo material, including a Christmas EP. None of it has pulled anyone out of the quartet.

2026: four dates on sale, and a long way between them

The calendar as it stands is short and geographically scattered, which is the shape of a heritage vocal act's year rather than a tour. Four dates are on sale. The first is Singapore on 22 September 2026, at the Resorts World Ballroom on Sentosa, an 8pm start in a ballroom rather than an arena, billed as roughly ninety minutes. Tickets ran from S$88 for restricted view up to S$228, with public sales opening on 7 August 2026 and closing on 15 September. The promoter listed it as the only Asian stop of the year and the group's first Singapore date in more than a decade.

Canada takes two dates in November. Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall hosts them on 13 November 2026 at 7pm, with tickets having gone on general sale on 18 July after a pre-sale from 29 June; the bill there is unusually full, with Jinky Vidal and the NSTLGIA Band plus Konflick with Santribo supporting, and an SVIP package offering a group photograph to the first hundred buyers. Two days later, on 15 November, they play the River Cree Resort and Casino at Enoch, Alberta.

The year closes on 11 December 2026 at the Lansdowne Theater outside Philadelphia, on a package billed as Home For The Holidays alongside Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard and Lindsey Webster — a shared bill with an 8pm start rather than a headline night.

Earlier in 2026 the group worked Blue Note Hawaii in Honolulu on 14 February, the Des Plaines Theatre in Illinois on 22 February, and the Rivers Casino event centre in Philadelphia on 28 February. The year before took in the Bear's Den at Seneca Niagara on 15 March 2025, Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, California on 28 June 2025, and an outdoor civic show in Sherman, Texas on 19 June 2025.

What the set actually contains

Setlists logged over the last two years show two versions of the same show. The full one, as performed at Hot Summer Nights in Sherman on 19 June 2025, runs around a dozen numbers: "I Can Love You Like That" opens, a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" follows, then "Goin' Crazy", "I Turn to You", "So Much in Love", "Something About You", "(She's Got) Skillz", "Beautiful as U" and "These Arms", before a medley stitching together "Motownphilly", "Feels Good", "This Is How We Do It" and "Poison" — a straight nod to the early-nineties R&B groups they came up beside. "Someday" and then "I Swear" close it.

The compressed version, used on shared bills, strips the same show to five: "I Can Love You Like That", "(She's Got) Skillz", "So Much in Love", "I Turn to You" and "I Swear". That was the shape at Rivers Casino in Philadelphia on 28 February 2026. The order of the opener and the closer does not move.

A tour logged under the name Celebrating 30 Years used the same architecture, with the medley sitting at the centre and "I Swear" held to the end. There is no elaborate staging attached to any of it — these are ballrooms, showrooms and restored single-screen theatres, and the production travels light enough to fit all of them.