Meet Kangol Kid --- (Thanks again, Rhonda Supreme)
Shaun Shiller Fequiere, known by his stage name, Kangol Kid, or, alternatively, The Kangol Kid, is an American hip hop producer, songwriter, break dancer, and emcee. Kangol is best known as a member of the old school hip hop group, UTFO.
Early life
Kangol was born in Brooklyn, New York.
He acquired his nickname, The Kangol Kid, from neighborhood friends during the early 80s, because of the many Kangol hats he owns and wears. He is also officially sponsored by Kangol Headwear, Inc.
UTFO member
Kangol was originally a breakdancer along with his dance partner, Doctor Ice. In 1984, UTFO became one of the most popular rap and breakdance acts in the country on the strength of their breakout single, "Roxanne, Roxanne."
During the mid-80s, as "Roxanne, Roxanne" gained popularity and chart position, UTFO was voted best rap group, at the 1988 Urban Music Awards, had featured spots on Don Cornelius' Soul Train, The Phil Donahue Show, and performed live for actors such as Dustin Hoffman, and Tony Danza. UTFO was the first rap group to perform at Harlem's Apollo Theater as they opened for Hall & Oates and the Temptation's Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin.
In 1987, UTFO released their most popular selling album, Lethal. The title song featured the rock group Anthrax and later that year became the number one rap album in the United States.
Current activities
Besides writing and producing songs, Fequiere has recorded voice-overs for various MTV commercials & animations, jingles for New York City's HOT 97 radio station and wrote his own column in Black Beat magazine entitled, "Yo Kangol". The column was designed to answer music related questions for up and coming artists nationwide.
In 2004, Fequiere scored the music for an independent film entitled Nightmare which later won an award for âBest Movie Scoreâ.
Fequiere currently balances his time between Producer, Composer, Performer, Artist Manager, Songwriter, President of his music production company, Kangol's Kreations, Inc., and CEO of his Public Relations firm, Kreative Media Group. Fequiere's lecturing at High Schools and Colleges nationwide on today's business of music has led this Brooklynite to receiving a proclamation from the City of New York for being among the first Haitians in Hip-Hop Music.[2]
Today, the Kangol sound can be heard on female R&B groups such as 3LW, Tres Jolie, and Blaque, as well as Latin pop group C-Note, who recorded a remake of Whistle's "Right Next To Me".
Fequiere's "Yo Kangol" column can be found monthly on the Allhiphop.com site, while up and coming projects include his first solo R&B recordings, scoring the independent film The Other Side of Hip-Hop, which will include new songs, written and produced by Kangol which will feature his sonâs R&B group, Project: Plan B.
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