Haddaway What Is Love

Haddaway was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1965. His mother was a nurse and his father was a marine His parents separated in the early 1970s and Haddaway first lived with his father in Europe and then with his mother in the USA. He was raised in Chicago and moved to the Washington metropolitan area at the age of 9. 4 He listened to Louis Armstrong, which encouraged him to learn how to play trumpet at the age of He attended Meade Senior High School in Fort Meade, Maryland, where he was a member of the marching This eventually resulted in him forming his first group, which he called He enrolled in medical school, but dropped out the same year due to lack of Haddaway moved to Cologne, West Germany, in 1987 where he mostly worked in Later, he formed his own company, Energy, which was involved in organizing fashion shows and photo shoots. In 1992, Haddaway was signed by German label Coconut Records. His debut single, What Is Love quot