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Papa Vegas was a rock band from the 1990s. They released two studio albums and were signed to RCA Records.

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Papa Vegas were founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where vocalist Joel Ferguson and guitarist Pete Dunning first began playing together. ^[1] Dunning and Ferguson soon parted ways, and Ferguson played under the name "Papa Vegas" with a variety of other musicians. After playing with Papa Vegas at a battle of the bands competition, he was heard by Brian Vander Ark, then lead singer of The Verve Pipe, who signed them to his Sid Flips label and produced their debut, Grounded . Dunning then returned to the group, and Force and Stefanski joined; Sid Flips was folded into RCA, and the group was set up with Don Gilmore to produce their next album. Tom Lord-Alge mixed the result was released as Hello Vertigo in April 1999. All songs on the album were written by Joel Fergusion with the exception of "Sermon Underground", which was co-written by Joel Ferguson and Pete Dunning. Their biggest hit single was "Bombshell", which peaked at #20 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1999. ^[2] Following the album's release, they toured with the Verve Pipe, but the full-length did not sell well, and no further hit singles followed; the group split up around 2000.