Flyte (band) Flyte (band) Flyte are an English alternative-pop band from London, consisting of Will Taylor (lead vocals, guitar), Sam Berridge (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), Jon Supran (drums, backing vocals) and Nicolas Hill (bass, backing vocals). The band began to form when Taylor (vocals, guitar) and Supran (drums, vocals) started playing together age 11 at their local comprehensive school. Later Hill (bass, vocals) joined and then Berridge (keys, vocals), whom they discovered singing in the London Underground. Taylor's parents were both English teachers and as a result, the music was infused with literature-based themes, the band taking its name from Sebastian Flyte
Flyte Tyme (band) Flyte Tyme (band) Flyte Tyme was a funk/R&B band from Minneapolis which launched the careers of vocalists Cynthia Johnson, Alexander O'Neal and producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Many of the group's musicians would later work with Prince. Flyte Tyme began as a Minneapolis funk/R&B unit, taking its name from "Flight Time", a 1973 Donald Byrd song. The group was first known as "Wars of Armageddon", then "Soul Vaccination" before becoming Flyt Tyme. The spelling of the name was later changed to "Flyte Tyme." The band's members varied throughout the group's history: founder David Eiland on saxophone, Cynthia Johnson on