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Zo! – FourFront (2019)

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Zo! – FourFront 
Released August 9, 2019

BUY FourFront Vinyl HERE
Lyrics and Liner Notes

“Decked out with feel-good love and it-could-be-love songs tidily arranged over a sturdy post-disco/pre-new jack swing foundation, it similarly features a shifting cast of guest vocalists known and new to Zo! sessions.” – Andy Kellman for AllMusic.com

01. On The Four (feat. Carmen Rodgers)
02. Smile (feat. Devin Morrison)
03. Neither One Of Us (feat. Madison McFerrin & Phonte)
04. For Moms (feat. Deborah Bond)
05. Bet You Wonder (feat. Madison McFerrin)
06. Love Up (feat. Carmen Rodgers & Eric Roberson)
07. Crash (feat. Sy Smith)
08. Sweat (feat. Stokley)
09. Step Up Front (feat. Deborah Bond)

Photo by Antoine Lyers
Design and Layout by Chris Charles
Mixed and Mastered by Chris Boerner

FourFront is available on
Amazon
Apple iTunes
Apple Music
Beatport
Deezer
Google Play
Spotify
Tidal

‘Piano & A Microphone’ …Quick Shed Session

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Shed time.
Houston and Dallas, see y’all soon.

Friday, September 28, 2018 – HOUSTON, TX
Zo! + Carmen Rodgers
Green Mill Social Club
630 S Sam Houston Pkwy W, Houston, TX 77047
Doors: 7p | Show: 8p
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Saturday, September 29, 2018 – DALLAS, TX
Zo! + Carmen Rodgers
South Dallas Cultural Center
3400 S Fitzhugh Ave, Dallas, TX 75210
FREE with RSVP

Zo! – ‘SkyBreak’ (2016)

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The third +FE Music release from producer, multi-instrumentalist, and musical director of The Foreign Exchange, Zo!.

The 10 song collection features guest appearances from Eric Roberson, Phonte, Muhsinah, innovative UK soul wonder Dornik, and longtime Dungeon Family affiliate and funk/rock veteran Joi.

01. Lake Erie feat. Sy Smith
02. Starlight feat. Phonte
03. Packing For Chicago feat. Muhsinah
04. I Don’t Mind feat. Shana Tucker
05. Wishing You Well feat. Carmen Rodgers
06. A Season feat. Eric Roberson
07. Just Whatcha Like feat. Joi
08. Lifelines feat. Dornik
09. For Pops
10. Steal My Joy feat. Tamisha Waden

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2014 in Pictures

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2014 was a year I spent on the ROAD. Shall I even attempt to list all of the cities?! ….Hell, why not. This year I hit up Amsterdam, Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham (Alabama and United Kingdom), Boston, Brooklyn, Cape Town, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Cologne, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Durham, Fresno, Houston, Johannesburg, Kansas City, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, Paris, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Richmond, Rotterdam, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Ana, Seattle, St. Louis and right down the street…. Washington D.C.

I got to hear music that I worked on every single week on Adult Swim’s animated series, Black Dynamite, saw myself on TV one day and decided to make a change by dropping off 35 lbs in the first few months of the year, traveled and saw some of the world with The Foreign Exchange and solo with Carmen Rodgers, started working on an EP with 1/2 of +FE, Nicolay, rocked an NPR Tiny Desk with +FE, began scoring a documentary, began a storytelling series, “Studio Campfire Stories: LIVE” that started on the right foot with a sold out show in Atlanta, and released one of the more talked about videos of the year (in my eyes anyway haha)..

Here’s to a helluva 2015 and much love to everyone riding with me throughout this musical journey… *raises glass of brown likkuh* Cheers!!

Sacramento crowd shot
Photo by Ćrís Mércádó
Clowning in Nashville
Rockin’ Minneapolis, MN
Cape Town
Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
With Sy Smith and Joi in LA
Riding the train in Paris
With Dam-Funk and 14KT in LA
Rockin’ in NOLA | Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
Posing with the worst tasting chips I have EVER eaten
Normal IG picture…
With Frank McComb in Alexandria, VA
Rockin’ in NYC
Photo by Molex Photography
Not so normal IG picture…
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Photo by Abby O. Photography
+FE on Fox5 News in Vegas
Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
Black Van landing in South Africa
Studio Campfire Stories in Atlanta… Sold Out Show!
With Carmen Rodgers and Sy Smith after our show in LA
Me and Phonte in San Diego
Me and Nicolay setting up to take a crowd pic in LA | Photo by Nick Baglio
Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
in Jo’burg | Photo by Ernest Sefolo
Rockin’ Boston |Photo by Dart Adams
Tiny Desk with +FE
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Tiny Desk featuring +FE
Some ink in Minneapolis, MN
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Landing in London
San Francisco crowd shot
Love to the Brooklyn crowd | Photo by Nick Baglio
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Photo by Omni StudioPhotography
We Are On The Move
NOLA | Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
Pictures after the show
In Seattle
Encore at the +FE show • Magic Stick in Detroit, MI (05.09.14)
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Poppin’ through your IG
Rockin’ Pittsburgh
Crew photo in Paris
Photo by Abby O. Photography
In the studio with Carlitta Durand
StL crowd | Photo by Nick Baglio
Detroit vs. The Eiffel Tower
Riding through Soweto
Photo by Jon Crisp
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
The Charlotte crowd
In Sacramento
Back on stage with Sy Smith in DC
After our Paris Show
Streets of London
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Black Van In Paris
Me and Algebra in London
In Vegas
Seattle crowd shot
With Monica Blaire in Alexandria, VA
Nashville!
‘We Are On The Move’ in Jo’Burg
Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Me and Carmen Rodgers
With Algebra Blessett
Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
With Waajeed in Detroit
Visiting Zana at Spectacles in Detroit
Photo by Nikki at Infinite Ink
Yep, I’m ready to smash this stage too, Carmen Rodgers…
Carmen and Erro saingin’ in …..”Harmonism”
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Carmen rockin’ her Zo! tee
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Sacramento
Taking Pictures of Cape Town
Chicago!
Photo by Dominique Easton for KÏNGDØM Photography
Me and Jeanne Jolly at The Howard Theatre in DC
Photo by Abby O. Photography
Ran into Robin S. on the plane from Amsterdam to Atlanta

Visuals from the Zo! featuring Carmen Rodgers at the 2nd Annual Pink Alive Concert for Breast Cancer Awareness in NYC – (10.28.14)

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Visuals from…

Zo!
featuring Carmen Rodgers
at Joe’s Pub in New York City, NY
October 28, 2014

Personnel:
Zo! – Grand Pie-Anna
Carmen Rodgers – Lead Saingin’
Eric Roberson – Guest Saingin’ on “We Are On The Move”
Zach Cutler – Gee-tar
Dennis Turner – The 6-string Low End Theory
Jon Laine – Skins

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Zo! featuring Carmen Rodgers – Performing at 2nd Annual Pink Alive Concert for Breast Cancer Awareness in New York City, NY – October 28, 2014

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2nd Annual Pink Alive Concert for Breast Cancer Awareness

Zo!
featuring Carmen Rodgers

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 – New York City, NY
(ManMade Tour)
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003 | (212) 539-8778
Doors: 9p | 18+
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“We Are On The Move” Debuts on Vh1 Soul!!

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It feels pretty good to now have two videos from ManMade in rotation on VH1 Soul now (“Count To Five” being the first)… “We Are On The Move” is definitely my most popular video to date and I’m happy to see that it’s finally getting a bit of television shine… Click the picture to see the video.

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Zo! Interview on Music Emissions

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Author: Carlita
Source: Music Emissions

INTERVIEW: Zo!

Remember when video channels actually played videos and you came across a new one that made you want to know more about the artist and the album attached? Yeah, me too. A few weeks ago, I encountered R&B artist Zo’s new video ” We Are On The Move” featuring Phonte (who I’d interviewed a few months ago with with his partner, Nicolay, in FE), Eric Roberson and Darion Alexander that lifted spirits, brought the funk, made me want to get down via the underground interweb (which has great taste, btw) and I needed to know more. I discovered a talented (music and baseball wise) producer, composer and musician from the D that delivered a 2013 album , “ManMade” combining with other R&B singing talents, that deserves all the accolades it’s received.

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Scoring A New Documentary “Undeniable – The Story of The Independent Soul Music Movement”

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Undeniable

I’m honored to have been selected to score a new documentary that is currently in production entitled Undeniable – The Story of The Independent Soul Music Movement. The film’s director and producer, John Jointer contacted me a few months ago to ask me about being a part of the project, to which I was completely down to do. He said that he would be at our Indianapolis show (back in October) to sit down with Carmen Rodgers and I for interviews and to get some show footage. He then asked me if I would be interested in scoring the film as well. Hell YEAH I’d be interested! So there you have it… Between the Vegas Documentary, doing the music for the second season of Black Dynamite – The Animated Series and now this project, I’m really happy with the expansion to television and film. The new year has gotten off to a pretty wonderful start…

Watch the Undeniable Film TRAILER

Support the film HERE

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