Editing Jamiroquai (section)

===1992–1995: Formation, ''Emergency on Planet Earth'' and ''The Return of the Space Cowboy''===
[[Jay Kay]] was sending songs to record companies, including a [[Hip hop|hip-hop]] single released in 1986 under the label [[StreetSounds]].<ref name="Kay-2013a">{{cite AV media|title=Emergency on Planet Earth|author=Kay, Jay|others=Jamiroquai|publisher=[[Sony Music Entertainment]]|year=2013|id=88691967852|type=liner notes}}</ref>{{sfn|Larkin|2011|page=1986}} During this time, Kay was influenced by Native American and [[First Nations in Canada|First Nation]] peoples and their philosophies; this led to the creation of "[[When You Gonna Learn]]", a song covering social issues.<ref name="Kay-2013a" /><ref name="Selsman-1993" /> After he had it recorded, Kay fought with his producer, who took out half of the lyrics and produced the song based on what was charting at the time.<ref name="Kay-2013a" /> With the track restored to his preference, the experience helped Kay realise he "wanted a proper live band with a proper live sound".<ref name="Kay-2013a" /> The band would be named "Jamiroquai", a [[portmanteau]] of the words "[[Jam session|jam]]" and the name of a Native American confederacy, the [[Iroquois]].<ref name="Selsman-1993">{{cite news |last=Selsman |first=Jill |title=New Again: Jamiroquai |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/new-again-jamiroquai |url-status=live |work=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]] |date=June 1993 |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080200/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/new-again-jamiroquai |archive-date=15 December 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> He was signed to [[Acid Jazz Records]] in 1991 after he sent a [[Demo (music)|demo tape]] of himself covering a song by the [[the Brand New Heavies|Brand New Heavies]].<ref name="Gates-2017">{{cite news |last=Gates |first=Kenny |title=Major labels are all about politics. I'm not interested in that. |url=https://www.pias.com/blog/major-labels-politics-im-not-interested/ |publisher=[[PIAS Group]] |date=16 June 2017 |access-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821003951/https://www.pias.com/blog/major-labels-politics-im-not-interested/ |archive-date=21 August 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The history of Acid Jazz |language=en-GB|publisher=[[Acid Jazz Records]]|url=http://www.acidjazz.co.uk/about/#toggle-id-1/|url-status=live |access-date=13 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080224/https://www.acidjazz.co.uk/about/#toggle-id-1/|archive-date=15 December 2020}}</ref> Kay gradually gathered band members, including Wallis Buchanan, who played the [[didgeridoo]].<ref name="Kay-2013a" /> Kay's manager scouted keyboardist [[Toby Smith]], who joined the group as Kay's songwriting partner.<ref name="Kay-2013a" /> In 1992, Jamiroquai began their career by performing in the British club scene.<ref>{{cite web|last=Scheerer|first=Mark|date=11 August 1998|title=1998 Grammy Awards – Jamiroquai making it big with retro '70s sound|url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9708/11/jamiroquoi/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080202/http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9708/11/jamiroquoi/index.html|archive-date=15 December 2020|access-date=15 June 2018|publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> They released "When You Gonna Learn" as their debut single, charting outside the UK Top 50 on its initial release.{{sfn|Thompson|2001|page=309}} In the following year, [[Stuart Zender]] became the band's bassist by audition.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1430495/bassist-stuart-zender-leaves-jamiroquai/|title=Bassist Stuart Zender Leaves Jamiroquai|date=5 October 1998|publisher=[[MTV News]]|access-date=27 May 2018|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080234/http://www.mtv.com/news/1430495/bassist-stuart-zender-leaves-jamiroquai/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Biography |url=http://www.zendermusic.com/biography |url-status=live |publisher=Zendermusic.com |access-date=15 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080150/http://www.zendermusic.com/biography |archive-date=15 December 2020}}</ref>

After the success of "When You Gonna Learn", the band were offered major-label contracts. Kay signed a one-million-dollar, eight-album record deal with [[S2 Records|Sony Soho<sup>2</sup>]].{{sfn|Thompson|2001|page=309}}<ref name="Dawes-1993">{{cite web |last=Dawes |first=Christopher |title=Jamiroquai Hat's Entertainment! |url=http://www.pushstuff.co.uk/mmfeatures/jamiroquai200393.html |url-status=live |website=[[Melody Maker]] |date=20 March 1993 |access-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080200/http://www.pushstuff.co.uk/mmfeatures/jamiroquai200393.html |archive-date=15 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="Markwell-1999">{{cite news |last=Markwell |first=Lisa |author-link=Lisa Markwell |title=Interview: Jay Kay – In at the deep end |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-jay-kay-in-at-the-deep-end-1095094.html |url-status=live |work=[[The Independent]] |date=22 May 1999 |access-date=21 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080219/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-jay-kay-in-at-the-deep-end-1095094.html |archive-date=15 December 2020 |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was the only member under contract, but he would share his royalties with his band members in accordance to their contributions as musicians.<ref name="Markwell-1999" /> Their label for US releases would be under the [[The WORK Group|Work Group]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Williams|first=Paul|date=19 June 1999|title=Jamiroquai look to top 7m sales with new Sony album |url=http://www.proquest.com/docview/232257264|website=[[Music Week]]|id={{ProQuest|232257264}}}}</ref>{{efn|1=[[Emergency on Planet Earth]] was released under [[Columbia records]].<ref name="Selsman-1993" />|group=nb}} The band released their debut album, ''[[Emergency on Planet Earth]]'', where it entered the UK albums chart at number 1.<ref name="O'Donnell-2008">{{Cite web|last=O'Donnell|first=David|date=2008|title=Review of Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/n5mq/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080152/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/n5mq/|archive-date=15 December 2020|access-date=21 January 2018|publisher=[[BBC Music]]}}</ref> Kevin L. Carter of ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' commented that the album "is full of upbeat, multi-hued [[Pop music|pop]] tunes based heavily in [[acid jazz]], '70s fusion, [[funk]] and [[Soul music|soul]], [[reggae]] and [[world music]]".<ref>{{cite news|last=Carter|first=Kevin|date=21 September 1993|title=Ron Carter Continues To Combine Jazz with Classical's Lyricism|work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1839669371|url-status=live|access-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225101/https://www.proquest.com/docview/1839669371/fulltext/96A07C096C6B4E50PQ|archive-date=2 April 2021|id={{ProQuest|1839669371}}}}</ref> With it, the band continued to build their acid-jazz sound in the following years.<ref name="O'Donnell-2008" /> The album's ecologically charged concept gave Kay press coverage,<ref name="Odell-1997">{{cite magazine|last=Odell|first=Michael|date=March 1997|title=Son Of Soul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCwEAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai&pg=PA101|magazine=[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]|pages=101–102|access-date=|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429084243/https://books.google.com/books?id=FCwEAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false|archive-date=29 April 2022}}</ref> although Mark Jenkins of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' found the record's sloganeering "as crude as the music is slick".<ref>{{cite news|last=Jenkins|first=Mark|date=29 October 1993|title=Jamiroquai's Soul Minus Soul|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|pages=22}}</ref>

[[File:Jamiroquai in concert.jpg|upright|thumb|alt="A man wearing a grey beanie, a dark shirt and a cannabis necklace; singing into a microphone below perspective"|Jay Kay performing with Jamiroquai at the [[North Sea Jazz Festival]] in 1995]]
The band's original drummer, Nick van Gelder, was replaced in 1993 by Derrick McKenzie, who recorded with the group in one take for his audition.<ref name="Kay-2013b">
{{cite AV media|title=The Return of the Space Cowboy|author=Kay, Jay|others=Jamiroquai|publisher=[[Sony Music Entertainment]]|year=2013|id=88691967862|type=liner notes}}</ref> They issued their second album, ''[[The Return of the Space Cowboy]]'', in 1994, and it ranked at number 2 in the UK chart.<ref name="Easlea-2011">{{cite web|last=Easlea|first=Daryl|date=2011|title=Review of Jamiroquai – The Return of the Space Cowboy|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3xhf/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080230/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3xhf/|archive-date=15 December 2020|access-date=15 September 2019|publisher=BBC Music|language=en-GB}}</ref> During its recording, Kay was in a [[Writer's block|creative block]], worsened by his increasing drug use at the time, which resulted in its complex songwriting.<ref name="Kay-2013b" /><ref name="Gladstone-1995">{{cite magazine|last=Gladstone|first=Eric|date=May 1995|title=Jamiroquai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LC0EAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai&pg=PA3|magazine=[[CMJ New Music Monthly]]|pages=16|access-date=|via=Google Books}}</ref> However, the record was said to have "capture[ed] this first phase of Jamiroquai at their very best", according to Daryl Easlea of [[BBC Music]].<ref name="Easlea-2011" /> Josef Woodard from ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote that its "syncopated grooves and horn-lined riffs" were "played by humans, not samplers".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1995/03/10/return-space-cowboy/|title=Return of the Space Cowboy|last=Woodard|first=Josef|date=10 March 1995|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=13 October 2018|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080238/https://ew.com/article/1995/03/10/return-space-cowboy/|url-status=live}}</ref>