EDDIE "F" FERRELL
Executive Director of Production
With almost 20 years of music industry knowledge and experience,
Eddie F is a millennium hip hop renaissance man. The co-founder, partner, and DJ of the Uptown Records rap
group Heavy D & the Boyz, has since evolved into a successful businessman.
Eddie F. is a multi-talented producer, arranger, songwriter, executive and entrepreneur serving as CEO & President
of Untouchables Entertainment Group, the parent company of his New Jersey studio Playground/MiniMansion Recording and
Untouchables Records.
The Mount Vernon, New York native made his entry into production in 1987 on the gold certified Heavy D & the Boyz
debut Living Large with Mr Big Stuff. Eddie continued to show his production prowess on their follow-up platinum
releases, Big Tyme and Peaceful Journey, creating such classics as Somebody For Me and You Aint Heard Nothin Yet, to
name a few. He has been largely responsible and instrumental in delivering or developing much of the talent coming
out of the Mt. Vernon area such as Heavy D, Al B. Sure, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Dave Hall, and even Diddy who lived
with EF in the early stages of his A&R career.
In 1989, Eddie created Untouchables Entertainment in order to bolster the careers of promising young producers, writers
and artists. Credited with originating the first modern production camp, the company featured multi-platinum production
and writing architects, including Eddie F himself, Pete Rock, Dave Hall, Kenny Greene, Mary Brown, Kenny Smoove and
Donell Jones, who produced, wrote, and/or remixed songs for recording artists such as TLC, Mariah Carey, Mary J Blige,
LL Cool J, Will Smith, Jodeci, Destinys Child, Jaheim, Luther Vandross, and RunDMC.
By the 90s, Eddie had discovered and executive produced gold certified projects for rap duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth
and R&B trio INTRO. During this year, Eddie also created the theme song for the popular Fox television series In
Living Color starring then up and coming comedians, Jaime Foxx, Jim Carey, The Wayans Brothers, and fly girl Jennifer
Lopez.
In 1994, he added the title of Vice President of A&R for LaFace Records to his repertoire, reporting to co-owner and
founder, Antonio LA Reid and was responsible for assisting Reid in managing its talent roster including Usher, OutKast,
TLC and Toni Braxton. During this year, Eddie also released Eddie F. and the Untouchables-Lets Get It On, the album on
Motown Records. Spotlighting the works of the Untouchables camp, the compilation featured the only known in-studio
collaboration of two up-and-coming hip-hop MCs at the time, 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G., on the title track Lets Get
It On.
He later segued to Motown Records as the Executive Vice President of A&R, again managing a classic roster including
Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, The Temptations, and Boyz II Men, as well as newcomers 98 Degrees, 702, and his personal signing
to Motown of Mario Winans (Bad Boy).
This was also the year that he discovered a then unknown Chicago singer named Donell Jones. Eddie quickly invested in
Jones by making him a part of the Untouchables Records family. He then secured a distribution outlet for Jones and further
developed his relationship with LA Reid and LaFace Records spawning the hit single U Know Whats Up featuring Left Eye of
TLC which was also produced by him.
Eddie is continuing to focus on further developing his enterprise. He is currently developing several new and exciting
artists for the Island/Def Jam label with LA Reid and serving as a technical or music consultant for several industry
heavyweights including Steve Stoute and his Translation mega-marketing company, power broker and mogul Butch Lewis, and
Andre Harrell, while also serving as music production supervisor for the breakthrough vocal language-transformation company,
Voxonic.
He continues to write and produce tracks for some of musics most popular artists including Jaheim, Chris Brown, Anthony
Hamilton and the last two Grammy winning albums of the late Luther Vandross just to name a few. He has recently launched
his newest production, producer, and writer management company, HotProducerz.com, while his New Jersey studio
Playground/MiniMansion Recording continues to function as not only a vehicle for Eddie's own creative juices, but also other
producers and artists. Stay tuned...
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