Mr. Woo

Laurence Allen aka Mr. Woo was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. In 1990, he moved to New Jersey and attended music production school at New Jersey Groove Academy. In 1999, Woo produced a highly controversial song for Death Row Records on the Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000 album titled "Presenting Miilkbone" featuring Miilkbone who created an anti-Eminem track in response to Eminem's diss song titled "Just Don't Give a Fuck" from Eminem's debut studio album The Slim Shady LP.

Mr. Woo’s first big commercial hit was in 2001 when he produced the remix for the first single of B2K. In 2004, Woo produced two songs for Mr. Cheeks titled "All Nite Long" and "Mass Homicide" released on the Ladies and Ghettomen album. In addition, the television show Punk'd on MTV played eleven instrumentals produced by Woo on several episodes during the season.

After success in the US, he came back to the UK in 2005. Soon after his return to his home country, Woo produced the hit single "Fast Cars" for the UK rap group Street Politiks, which was #1 on MTV Base and MTV Poland. He then worked with double-platinum pop group Liberty X (V2 Records), Big Brovaz (Genetics Records UK), Terri Walker (Mercury) and producer Rob Fusari (Lady Gaga, Destiny's Child). Even being back in the UK, Woo still managed to have some tracks/instrumentals played in the USA on a couple of television shows.

In 2007, Woo produced an entire album for Zarina, a pop star from Kazakhstan. One of the songs of the album titled "Hitch" had a music video by well-known producers Matt McDermitt and Joseph Kahn. Later, Woo produced a song titled "Sumo" featuring Twissman & Ginny B, which went #11 in the UK Commercial Pop Top 30 charts. In 2011, the British television show EastEnders played "Sumo" on two episodes. All in all, Woo has had much success around the world, with 21 music videos and singles being released worldwide to date.

Links

Woo's web site

Woo @ Wikipedia