Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor (born 1965), also known as Fingerprints, is a

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an musician and

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music producer. He is best known for discovering and producing the hip-hop trio

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and the rap duo

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Early life

Born in

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, Azor is Haitian.

Career

In late 1985, with the rise of hip-hop response records all the rage, Azor and the group

(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

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, Sweet Tee,

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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 "Let's Talk About Sex" is a song by American hip hop trio Salt-N-Pepa, released in August 1991 by Next Plateau as the fourth single from their third studio album, '' Blacks' Magic'' (1990). It was written and co-produced by Hurby Azor, and ach ...

", among others. In 1995, he co-wrote and produced

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'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.

Bibliography

*Kurutz, Steve, " Hurby 'Luv Bug' Azor"

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References

Living people American keyboardists American record producers Haitian emigrants to the United States Hip-hop record producers 1965 births Musicians from New York City People from Port-de-Paix Haitian hip-hop musicians {{US-hiphop-bio-stub