Hurby Azor Explained

Hurby Azor
Birth Name:Herby Azor[1]
Birth Place:Port-de-Paix, Haiti
Origin:New York City, U.S.
Years Active:1982–present

Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor (born 1965),[1] also known as Fingerprints, is a Haitian musician and hip-hop music producer. He is best known for discovering and producing the hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa and the rap duo Kid 'n Play.

Early life

Born in Port-de-Paix, Azor is Haitian.[2]

Career

In late 1985, with the rise of hip-hop response records all the rage, Azor and the group Salt-N-Pepa (then known as Super Nature) recorded a response to Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crews "The Show" called "The Show Stoppa". He also went on to produce Dana Dane, Sweet Tee, Kwamé and others.

Azor wrote and performed in Salt-N-Pepa's music video for "Push It", on keyboards and backup vocals, and also wrote the trio's song "Let's Talk About Sex", among others. In 1995, he co-wrote and produced Snow's single "Anything for You", which became the top-selling single in Jamaica that year.[3]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Book: Iton, R. . In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era . Oxford University Press . Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities . 2008 . 978-0-19-972083-5 . 2023-12-03 . 394.
  2. Web site: Notable Haitians . March 26, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140326080519/http://www.hot97.com/haitianindependence/index.aspx . March 26, 2014 .
  3. Jamaican sales and charting data for "Anything for You" can be found in O'Brien Chang, Kevin and Chen, Wayne (1998) Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 211.