Linda Lou McCall is a songwriter and music industry consultant specializing in entertainment marketing, street promotion, and creative development. She has notably worked with many artists over three decades, from veterans like The Delfonics and Con Funk Shun to contemporary superstars like MC Hammer and Eminem. While with Con Funk Shun, she designed album covers, created album concepts, served as the production assistant on just about all of their LPs for Mercury Records, did art direction and wrote liner notes. She went on to be the only female executive for rap megastar MC Hammer from 1990 to 1992.
In 1992, Linda Lou formed her own company, The Entertainment Qartel, Inc, (EQartel), specializing in music business administration and entertainment marketing and promotions. She relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta in 1994 and quickly built up a solid client base with artists like OutKast, Goodie Mob, Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, T.L.C., Jay-Z, Will Smith, Three-6 Mafia, Tupac, Mariah Carey, Faith Evans, 112, and Gerald Levert. As a member of the first Interscope Records Street Team, her Atlanta-based Rhyme Scene Unit Street Marketing Task Force was instrumental in the success of the debut albums of Eminem, Mya, Black Eyed Peas, and the platinum-selling "Bulworth" soundtrack.
Linda Lou was the wife of Con Funk Shun co-founder/drummer, Louis A. McCall, and the mother of their two children. Louis was killed in a robbery in 1997. Linda Lou spent the next decade fighting to keep Louis' case from going cold, even persuading the Governor of Georgia to reopen the case in 2003. Her hard work finally paid off - on January 18, 2007, a Dekalb County, GA grand jury indicted a suspect on a felony murder charge.
Linda Lou scaled down her work scheduled a few years ago due to severe medical problems from systemic lupus. She still takes on select consulting projects and volunteers as a consumer protection activist, particularly for the elderly. She has been successful in getting scam money refunds for not only US citizens but for people in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, Canada, Taiwan and, even, Fiji. She owns Exxtra Foxx Music Publishing (BMI) and has been a voting member of The Recording Academy for 30 years. An avid gardener, Linda Lou's yard is abloom each year with roses, phlox, lilies, and lavender. During her spare time, she is working on her autobiography, where she will finally talk candidly about her years with the Delfonics, Stax Records, Con Funk Shun, MC Hammer, in addition to her own personal and, sometimes, traumatic, life including what it takes to be a good "band wife", the loss of her brother when she was 5, the stillbirth of her first child, her battle with the incurable autoimmune disease systemic lupus, Louis murder and her fight for justice, and her two children.
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(If you are interested, you can read on what will be the meat of my work-in-progress autobiography by clicking here.)
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In People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" issue (May 7, 2007), I was chosen to appear in the Dove Pro Age advertisement as one of "The 50 Most Beautiful Women Over 50". (www.people.com/doveproage). My kids entered my photo along with an essay. It was a great honor for me since I have not missed an issue of the magazine since May 1977! Thank you to Lindsay and Louis II, the best children that any mother could have.
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Je Ne Regrette Rien
My Discography
"I Think I Found The Answer"
"Honey Wild"
"Welcome Back To Love"
"Hide & Freak"
"Love's Memories"
"California 1"
"Bad Lady"
"Promise You Love"
"T.H.E. Freak"
"All About You" (contains sample of "Promise You Love, recorded by Ideal - 2000)
"How You Like Me Now" (contains sample of "Honey Wild", recorded by Lil Wayne - 2007)
Co-published by Exxtra Foxx Music (BMI)