LOS ANGELES, Calif. (17 JULY 2025): When R&B/pop duo Calloway rocketed up the Billboard charts 35 years ago with their hit, “I Wanna Be Rich,” Reggie and Vincent Calloway defined rich as being wealthy with “love, peace, and happiness.” This Friday (July 18), they’ll release a new Spiral Galaxy Entertainment single, “6 Pack,” that goes deeper than their now-classic record. The Calloway brothers wrote and produced the latest health and wellness song that champions six categories of fitness.
With a funky and futuristic electronic synthesized track representative of Calloway’s best work, whether that be from their duo era in the nineties or their seminal work on the iconic hits they created as members of Midnight Star in the eighties, “6 Pack” is anchored by an anthemic chorus animated by Vincent Calloway’s trademark electronic robotic vocals that call for getting one’s six pack back: mental fitness, physical fitness, social fitness, emotional fitness, financial fitness, and spiritual fitness.
“We made a statement about how being rich can be defined on ‘I Wanna Be Rich.’ ‘6 Pack’ takes it to the next level when it comes to defining the different types of fitness. Obviously, there’s your core and your abs as part of being physically fit. But the six layers of fitness that we are singing about on ‘6 Pack” are mental, physical, social, emotional, financial, and spiritual fitness,” explained Reggie Calloway, a GRAMMY® nominee who also serves as Director of Music Royalty Funding for Sound Royalties.
On August 7, Calloway will release a video for “6 Pack” directed by Ash Gupta. Not only does Calloway hope that “6 Pack” will become this summer’s workout jam, but they also hope the song sparks transformation.
“To be fit, you’ve got to look at yourself and put in the work and do what you need to do to be fit. That’s your nutrition and what you eat, how you rest, the way you look at your life, and even the way you look at and how you treat yourself,” said Vincent Calloway, who was also a fitness coach for boxing champions Paulie Malignaggi and Steve Forbes.
“Being mentally fit is about how you cope with problems. Physical fitness encompasses more than just health and wellness. It gets down to basics, such as how you breathe and your flexibility. Social fitness is about your relationships. Emotional fitness touches on your mindset. It’s about giving yourself grace and knowing that you can make it on your own. Financial fitness and wellbeing is about saving money, being financially stable, and avoiding the anxiety that comes from financial stress. Being spiritually fit reflects the inner journey, searching inside yourself. It’s the awareness that you’re not alone. It’s using meditation to go inside,” said Reggie Calloway.
Earlier in their careers, the Calloway brothers helped pioneer a music genre known as techno-funk. Together they consistently crafted chart-topping records – with Midnight Star (“Freak-A-Zoid,” “No Parking on the Dance Floor,” “Wet My Whistle,” and “Operator”), as Calloway (“Sir Lancelot,” “You’re My Everything,” “All The Way,” and “Let’s Get Smooth”), and for artists such as Levert ("Casanova”), Teddy Pendergrass ("Joy"), Gladys Knight ("Love Overboard”), Natalie Cole (“Jump Start”), Klymaxx (“Meeting in The Ladies Room”), and The Deele (“Body Talk”). Their projects achieved chart and sales successes while being added to and proliferating radio playlists that continue to this day. The Calloways are more modest about the goals for “6 Pack.”
“It’s not about airplay at this point for us. We’ve done that already. At this point in our music careers, it’s about having an impact. We’ve been saying this for a while now. Calloway is about creating a movement, thus ‘6 Pack’ is a vital component to what we are doing now. If we reach just one person and change a life with our message on the new single, then it’s meaningful. If it becomes bigger and we help inspire change for many more people, even better,” said Reggie Calloway.
Last December, Calloway released a 35th anniversary version of “I Wanna Be Rich” that they produced with GRAMMY® nominated producer Darius “Phonix” Barnes (J. Cole, The Game, Trey Songz, Eminem, 50 Cent). In March, they issued “Freak-A-Zoid (Reboot).” Their single, “Politics,” is nominated for Best Social Commentary Song for the Greater Sacramento Urban Music Awards, taking place in September. Calloway plans to release more reimagined and re-recorded songs from their catalog, along with new original songs.
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For more information, visit https://callowayofficial.com.
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