Hurby Azor

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}

{{short description|Haitian hip hop producer}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2009}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Hurby Azor

| alias = {{flatlist|

  • Hurby Luv Bug
  • Hurby's Machine
  • Fingerprints

}}

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| birth_name = Herby Azor{{cite book | last=Iton | first=R. | title=In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-19-972083-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=An3xv7mXeQAC&pg=PA394 | access-date=2023-12-03 | page=394}}

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}

| birth_place = Port-de-Paix, Haiti

| origin = New York City, U.S.

| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|keyboard}}

| genre = {{hlist|Hip hop|new jack swing}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|producer}}

| years_active = 1982–present

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Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor (born 1965), 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.hot97.com/haitianindependence/index.aspx |title=Notable Haitians |access-date=March 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326080519/http://www.hot97.com/haitianindependence/index.aspx |archive-date=March 26, 2014 }}

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 Crew's "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.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. {{ISBN|1566396298}}

Bibliography

  • Kurutz, Steve, "[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p88757|pure_url=yes}} Hurby 'Luv Bug' Azor"], AllMusic.

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