Fatty Koo's House of Fatty Koo

The House that Fatty Koo Built A.k.a. The Album that Fatty Koo Screwed Up

If there was ever a need to discard of the term, "music group", then Fatty Koo would likely be forerunners of such a movement. More like a small-scale conglomerate rather than a sextet, the group aims to draw attention to their style and sound through their collective and unique assortment of words and sounds, in conjunction with their peculiar stage name (Fatty Koo: a woman's posterior morphed, for the group's purposes, into a term denoting a woman‘s mojo; i.e. 2005‘s “Bootylicious“).

Ron (writer, producer, instrumentalist, in-house emcee), Eddie B. (singer, writer, drummer), Gabrielle (singer, writer, poetess), Valure (singer, writer), and Marya (writer, Venezuelan cellist) all met in Columbus, Ohio via the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (a tour bus with an on-board recording studio that travels America and lets young, aspiring musicians come aboard and record music). 

After certain record execs scouted them individually, it was the head of DAS Communications that had the bright idea of pooling their individual talents into one unit in hopes of forming a “super-group” of sorts. But it seemed that the circle was not yet complete and after moving them all into one house/recording studio, auditions were held for a 6th member. Once 15-year old Josh (singer, saxophonist) was chosen, the group inked both a major-label record deal with Sony Urban and a television deal with BET, who documented the recording of the group’s debut album for the reality series, Blowin’ Up.