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Daddy-O |
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For the past 20 years, Brooklyn
native Daddy-O has done everything from being an influential
recording artist, writer, producer and remixer to Senior Vice
President of A&R at MCA Records. And he's worked with
every creative stripe from Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Shante
Moore to They Might Be Giants, the B-52s, Living Colour and Red
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Among Rap's elder statesmen,
Daddy-O was a founding member of Stetsasonic in 1981, which enjoyed
three successful Tommy Boy albums. An influential
group in Hip Hop, it was one of the few to promote the use of
live instruments, to forge the rock-rap fusion (as did Run DMC),
to develop the black consciousness that would be later fine-tuned
by groups like De La Soul and the jazz/rap vibe that eventually
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Stetsasonic dissolved when
Daddy-O decided that the group was beginning to exhaust its possibilities.
The demise of the group, however, ushered in an era when Daddy-O
and his former bandmate, Prince Paul, were each to become in-demand
producers and remixers. And despite all the success, he
still found time to release the solo album, "You Can Be
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His reputation, the diversity
of his talents, and his ever-sharpening business acumen also
opened the doors to the corporate world. Daddy-O has written
and produced jingles and radio/television commercials for established
brands such as Casio Electronics, Alka Seltzer and Pepsi. He
also became the Senior Vice President of A&R at MCA Records
where he worked closely with executive Hank Shocklee of Public
Enemy fame. |
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