Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor (born September 26, 1964), 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

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Early life

Born in

Port-de-Paix Port-de-Paix (; ht, Pòdepè or ; meaning "Port of Peace") is a commune and the capital of the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 462,000 (2015 IHSI estimate). Port-de-Paix used to be a large exporter ...

, Azor is Haitian.

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

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& The Get Fresh Crew's "The Show" called "The Show Stoppa". He also went on to produce

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, 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 "

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", 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 Kevin O'Brien Chang and Wayne Chen, ''Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican music'' (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 211.

Personal life

Azor also dated

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from 1984 to 1989, during which time he conceived a baby with another woman.

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 1964 births {{US-hiphop-bio-stub