Linda Lou McCall
- Executive
- Publicity
- Manager
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 born in Washington DC. A graduate of Howard University, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, majoring in Technical Theater/Lighting Design. After college, her first job was as a publicist at Stax Records in Memphis TN. It was there she met her future husband, Louis A. McCall, co-founder & drummer of the Mercury Records group, Con Funk Shun.
Linda Lou has been a Voting Member of The Recording Academy ("The Grammy Awards") for 50 years. The songs that she wrote for Con Funk Shun continue to be in demand. In fact, one of them was used by rapper Lil Wayne on his top-selling album, "Tha Carter III", released on June 8, 2008. People magazine and the Dove Pro*Age campaign named Linda Lou one of "The 50 Most Beautiful Women Over 50" in the "Most Beautiful People" issue (May 7, 2007)
In 2010, the Smithsonian Institute used one of Linda Lou's early photos of the Grammy Award winning trio The Delfonics in its exhibit and its accompanying book, both entitled "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing: How The Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment". The exhibition was on view first in Washington DC, then it went on tour through 2012. It will be permanently housed in the new National Museum of African-American History and Culture opening on the Washington Mall in 2015. She has appeared in several music documentaries including "Howard Theater: A Century of Song" (2010) and two episodes of TVOne's hit show "Unsung" about Con Funk Shun (2012) and The Delfonics (TBA). Her old photographs of these subjects were used in each of the films.
Linda Lou continues to work as a music business consultant with her company Exxtra Foxx Music LLC.
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 born in Washington DC. A graduate of Howard University, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, majoring in Technical Theater/Lighting Design. After college, her first job was as a publicist at Stax Records in Memphis TN. It was there she met her future husband, Louis A. McCall, co-founder & drummer of the Mercury Records group, Con Funk Shun.
Linda Lou has been a Voting Member of The Recording Academy ("The Grammy Awards") for 50 years. The songs that she wrote for Con Funk Shun continue to be in demand. In fact, one of them was used by rapper Lil Wayne on his top-selling album, "Tha Carter III", released on June 8, 2008. People magazine and the Dove Pro*Age campaign named Linda Lou one of "The 50 Most Beautiful Women Over 50" in the "Most Beautiful People" issue (May 7, 2007)
In 2010, the Smithsonian Institute used one of Linda Lou's early photos of the Grammy Award winning trio The Delfonics in its exhibit and its accompanying book, both entitled "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing: How The Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment". The exhibition was on view first in Washington DC, then it went on tour through 2012. It will be permanently housed in the new National Museum of African-American History and Culture opening on the Washington Mall in 2015. She has appeared in several music documentaries including "Howard Theater: A Century of Song" (2010) and two episodes of TVOne's hit show "Unsung" about Con Funk Shun (2012) and The Delfonics (TBA). Her old photographs of these subjects were used in each of the films.
Linda Lou continues to work as a music business consultant with her company Exxtra Foxx Music LLC.
