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Colby O’Donis Born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, Colby spent a great deal of time during his childhood living in Orlando, Florida. By the age of 7, he was already working with Platinum producers Full Force (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Backstreet Boys, N’Sync) who shopped his demos to a circuit of record labels, and produced his song, “Mouse in the House,” featured on the Stuart Little soundtrack. Colby has been producing music since the age of 12, but recently started co-producing with Akon. +/- His debut album has mainly been a self-contained effort between the two. “We’ve recorded so many songs for this project—maybe forty or so—it was hard to get it down to a manageable number,” says Colby. “The writing process has been so much fun, and it has been great working with Akon. On the real, he is a very humble guy.” His debut album, tentatively called Colby O, is expected out in 2008. He has already released the first single titled, “What You Got”, which features Akon. Dont Tur...

AKON Akon (born Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam on April 30, 1973), is a R&B singer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States but grew up in Dakar, Senegal and at the age of seven he moved to the USA, settling in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is the son of jazz percussionist Mor Thiam and is fluent in his native language of Wolof as well as English. Akon grew up in Senegal as a Muslim, eventually settled in New Jersey. There he discovered hip hop for the first time, as well as crime. His first song was entitled “Operations Of Nature,” sung when he was fifteen years old. Dangerous Get Low With It What You Got I Can't Wait Dance Like There's No Tomorrow Remix Hypnotized Wanna Be Startin' We Takin' Over Get Buck in Here last.fm