CHECK IT OUT . Jamiroquai’s first single, When You Gonna Learn, was released in 1992 on the Acid Jazz label. Following its success, Kay signed an eight-album record deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The first Sony album, Emergency on Planet Earth was released in 1993. It was followed in 1994 by The Return of the Space Cowboy. The single Space Cowboy gained notice on the charts and in club rotation. While Jamiroquai was growing in popularity in the UK and Western Europe, they remained relatively unknown to US and other international audiences. The band's international breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, Virtual Insanity and Cosmic Girl. The success of Virtual Insanity was due in part to its Jonathan Glazer-directed video, which featured Kay's dance moves and some physics-defying images. At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for Virtual Insanity won four awards, including Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video. In 2003 Jamiroquai compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Late Night Tales series for Azuli Records. The track selection shows some of the band's funk, soul and disco influences, including tracks from The Pointer Sisters, The Commodores, Johnny Hammond Smith and Johnny Guitar Watson. The acid jazz flavours and ethnic influences of the first three albums continued with the release of Synkronized