Andre Deyo

Andre' Nathaniel Deyo (born April 19, 1978), better known by his stage name mrDEYO, is an American R&B singer and hit songwriter best known for his songwriting abilities and arrangements on "Jenny From The Block" for Jennifer Lopez and subsequently writing the book "Jenny & Becky From The Block" after the release of "Becky From The Block" by Becky G (the infamous Yellow Ranger in 2017's Power Rangers), which she covered as her first single as a solo artist.

He has been signed to a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing since 2002.

"Jenny & Becky From The Block" is an autobiographical story about the biggest release of Andre Deyo's 17-year career thus far, originally written by Deyo and recorded by Natasha Ramos, then by Jennifer Lopez, and covered by Becky G.

The songwriter takes his experiences to the pages of a book (instead of a lyric sheet), as he reveals the ways in which he created "Jenny From The Block" detailing his interaction and involvement with its new version by Becky G which prominently featured Jennifer Lopez in the video.

The target audience is primarily made up of songwriters, musicians, Jennifer Lopez fans (JLovers), and Becky G fans (Beasters).

The book was released independently through Deyo's social media outlets: Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud and on his official website: .candreDEYOom.

It was his follow-up placement in autumn of 2002 "Jenny from the Block" for Jennifer Lopez, which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-three single (4 weeks stuck behind "Lose Yourself" by Eminem and "Work It" by Missy Elliott).

The song inspired the new nickname for J. Lo and reached number one in Argentina and Canada, and entered the top ten on the majority of all other charts it appeared on.

It was produced by Troy Oliver (of New Haven, CT) and featured Jadakiss and Styles (of The Lox).

The video was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards in 2003: Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography, and Best Art Direction.

Deyo's pen and vocal skills went into Ginuwine's fourth album entitled The Senior with the songs "Chedda Brings" a co-write with longtime collaborator Antonio McClendon and "Big Plans" which featured Method Man.

Deyo's vocal backgrounds can be heard on each of these records and is credited on the album.

mrDEYO also lent his hand and vocal production to Monica's only #1 album After the Storm, which was the long-awaited rerelease of All Eyez on Me.

The song "Go To Bed Mad" was a duet featuring label mate Tyrese (selected by Apple's Larry Jackson and RCA CEO Peter Edge).

Deyo had another single with O'Ryan (Omarion's look alike little brother) called "Take It Slow".

The song was a co-write with Tommy Niblack (who vocal produced with Deyo on "Go To Bed Mad"), Makeba Riddick (Woods) (of Beyoncé fame), and Adonis Shropshire (Bad Boy hit writer).

A month later he landed a placement with Frankee, famous for her answer back song to Eamon's "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" called F.U.R.B. (Fuck You Right Back).

Linking together with producer Chris Liggio again he penned "I Told U So" for her release The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

Deyo began his label, TS.A Records.

He also worked with Jared Cotter (JL Cotter) on his project "The Album B4 The Album" contributing four songs: "Mo' Thangs", "Make U Cry" feat.

Stimuli (co-written with Cotter and Greg Bruno), "Just Tell Him", and "Business & Pleasure".

Many people believe it inspired Faith Hill's 2005 hit "Mississippi Girl".

The This Is Me... Then album also produced another mrDEYO written single, a co-write with Cory Rooney "I'm Glad".

It was #4 on the Hot Dance Charts (4 weeks) and won a Billboard Award for Best Selling Latin Song of the Year.

The project was released on April 21, 2005, in an effort to gain an unknown Cotter more exposure from record labels he sought to be signed by.

Deyo would commonly tap Jared to demo his songs @ Sony/ATV Music Studios in New York City and continued to work with him to reach his goal of becoming an artist.

In 2007 Jared found success as a top 12 contestant on American Idol (Season 6), then to hosting Fuse Network's "The Sauce", and "The Challenge" on MSG.

He took a turn as the artist on his CD single "She Hot" on his independent TS.A Records via iTunes, which included snippets to his upcoming album Human Beings Club which has yet to be released although it was expected in the summer of 2007.

In December 2007 he began work with Dan Talevski (of YouTube popularity), penning his industry insiders favorite "Quick & Slow" produced by The HeavyWeights and he also lent a hand in putting a bridge on Dan's YouTube Classic "Rocket & Go" which the HeavyWeights reproduced for the clubs.

He has unreleased material on Natasha Ramos, whose long-awaited debut comes from Pharrell Williams' Star Trak Entertainment label.

December 2007: Deyo began working with the girl group "Queenz" of Queens, New York through longtime friend and collaborator Kenny Ortiz (known best for his role in signing and developing the famous New York, NY group SWV).

Deyo's involvement included recording, vocal producing, writing, demoing, and providing ideas on their sound, look, and marketing; basically materializing the vision of making the 20-year-old girls superstars.

They were readying material to begin shopping for a major label recording deal.

Their first song recorded with Deyo, entitled "Set Me Free", was written by mrDEYO and Jason Gilmore.

It was produced by The HeavyWeights.

In 2009 Cotter co-wrote the Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit / ASCAP Award winner "Down" by Cash Money artist Jay Sean as well as the majority of the album.

Cotter currently manages the artist Bazzi.

Until July 2017, he book is available for free in the following formats: Amazon for Kindle (retrieve on Amazon), Apple's iTunes iBooks for iPhone (retrieve for iPhone) Apple's iTunes iBooks for iPad (retrieve for iPad) and finally in a neutral PDF format readable by all ebook players (retrieve PDF).

In the book's closing pages, Deyo gives info on a new book "Coming Soon" titled "From Songwriter, To Songwriter".

He released his first song placement with Arista recording artists Koffee Brown titled "I Got Love" (Scars) from their Mars/Venus album and was featured on the hook and rap (produced by Chris Liggio).