It achieved immediate commercial success because of its single 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss'. Dawn released their first album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience in 1991 to critical acclaim. Īfter recording their debut single 'Ode to a Forgetful Mind' in 1988, P.M. They earned significant crossover success in the early 1990s with music that merged hip hop, older soul, and more pop-oriented urban R&B. Dawn is an American R&B and Hip Hop act, formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known by his stage name Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (known as DJ Minutemix) in Jersey City, New Jersey.
