Wolffox & Toadfrog

Wolffox & Toadfrog was a Luxembourg virtual house act formed by Ukrainian-Luxembourg record producer and DJ, Boryslav Kolba and singer & animator Eliot Fernandes, who is most notable for running the Canadian dance project and animation studio, Sunshyne and consisting of animated characters Wolffox, a DJ fox-wolf hybrid, and Toadfrog, a singer toad-frog hybrid.

The act is most notable for being Kolba’s and pre-Sunshyne Fernandes' mainstream debuts in the US, and for their cover of “I Wanna Be” by Zorotl (Eiffel 65), which topped the dance chart in many regions.

History
The act first came to prominence in 2001 when Ukranian-born Luxembourg DJ, Boryslav Kolba met animator and singer, Eliot Fernandes at a local bar. Kolba was working on an instrumental cover of "I Wanna Be" by Zorotl (Eiffel 65), and was originally planning on releasing it as a solo single, but decided to search for a vocalist to provide vocals for the track instead. Upon hearing Kolba sing and looking at one of his napkin drawings of a cartoon fox-wolf hybrid, which would later become Wolffox, Kolba offered Eliot an opportunity to provide the vocals for his track, to which he agreed on. After releasing the track with Eliot's vocals under their real names, the track sold poorly, which disappointed Boryslav. However, upon seeing the success of British animated group, Gorillaz, and, inspired by Eliot's napkin drawing, Boryslav and Kolba partnered up again, forming the animated house act, Wolffox & Toadfrog. Wolffox, based around the napkin drawing by Eliot, is an anthropomorphic wolf-fox hybrid DJ, and Toadfrog, voiced by Eliot, is an anthropomorphic toad-frog hybrid singer. Other animal hybrids were conceptualized for Toadfrog, but Kolba and Eliot settled for his character being a toad-frog hybrid. After animating a music video and re-releasing the track under the animated group alias of Wolffox & Toadfrog, the song achieved massive success throughout Europe, and even became a hit in the United States through an 8-year contract with Ultra Records, topping the Billboard Dance Club chart and reaching #13 on the Hot 100 and #28 on the Mainstream Top 40, becoming Kolba's first American hit and Eliot's pre-Sunshyne debut in the US.

After the single's success, the two decided to record a full album under their act, which, upon release in 2002, became one of the most successful European dance albums of all time, reaching #3 on the Billboard 200 and topping the UK Album charts. The album spawned the singles "I Wanna Be", "I'm a Toadfrog, He's a Wolffox", and "Roxshox", which samples Thomas Bangalter's remix of Roy Davis Jr.'s "Rock Shock", the latter being credited as featured artists.

Albums

 * Wolffox & Toadfrog (2002)
 * Hybridgital (2003)
 * 3 (2006)