Sway Calloway

Sway Calloway

Sway Calloway, usually credited as Sway, is a reporter and executive producer for MTV News. [Chrisp, Taj. [http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2007/10/19/Feature/Q.A-With.Sway.Calloway.Of.Mtv.News-3043516.shtml Q & A With Sway Calloway of MTV News] . "The Daily Orange": October 19, 2007.] He is also the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show "The Wake Up Show". He is one half of the duo Sway & King Tech.

Biography

As a teenager growing up in Oakland, California, Sway became a locally known rapper,and street performer on San Francisco's Pier 39. [Entzminger, Angela. [http://theanimatorsjournal.blogspot.com/2007/04/office-of-film-theater-and-broadcasting.html Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting Hosts Second Annual Careers in Television Event] The Animator's Journal: April 28, 2007.] He teamed up with DJ King Tech after high school and the duo performed at various San Francisco Bay Area clubs. They also released independent albums that were popular locally. A major label record deal with Giant Records followed. The resulting album, "Concrete Jungle" in 1990, got them the job of co-hosting their own show on radio station KMEL.

"The Wake Up Show" featured music and interviews with well-known hip hop artists as well as up-and-coming ones. The show became very popular and began simulcasting to Los Angeles on KKBT in 1994 and to Chicago on WEJM by 1996. [http://www.wakeupshow.com/about.html Wake Up Show about page] ] Ras Kass, Chino XL and Eminem are among the rappers who made their broadcasting debuts on the show. Soon, Sway was also hosting his own morning drive time show on the station.

The popularity of the show helped Sway and Tech get another record deal, this time with Interscope Records. Their album, "This or That", reached #30 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #1 on the Top Heatseekers chart in 1999. [ [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kpfpxqq5ld6e~T5 Sway & King Tech singles charts history] at Allmusic] The album featured contributions from hip hop artists such as RZA, Eminem, Xzibit, Kool G Rap, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane and The Roots. [http://www.mtv.com/news/correspondents/sway/bio.jhtml Sway Calloway biography] at MTV] [Conaway, Matt. [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfixqlkldke "This or That" overview] . Allmusic: 1999] Sway also made an appearance on Jennifer Lopez's DVD, The Reel Me in late 2003.

In 2000, Sway was approached by MTV to join the network as a correspondent, thus becoming a regular reporter for its music video shows and news specials, including "Total Request Live" and the hip-hop music video show "Direct Effect". Because MTV's studios are based in New York City, King Tech and "The Wake Up Show" went along with Sway in his move. Sway's prominence on MTV made the radio show even more popular than it was before. This inevitably led to a TV version of the show on MTV running briefly in January 2004. Sway and Tech also have a popular series of mixtapes that feature freestyles performed on the show.

Another album, "Back 2 Basics" was released in 2005 on Sway and Tech's own record label, Bolo Entertainment, which is distributed by Universal Music.

He appeared as a guest star on the MTV sketch comedy show "Short Circuitz" in 2007.

Leaving and returning to MTV

In September 2005, Sway decided not to renew his contract with MTV. In 2006, Sway signed a new contract that included an ability to bring new projects to MTV, making him the first TV personality since Carson Daly to negotiate such a deal (Daly turned down a similar contract). He will have the opportunity to produce programming with King Tech on MTV and other Viacom channels as well as continue to host programs. [Rashbaum, Alyssa. [http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2006/01/mtv_sway_calloway_considered_leaving_the_network/ MTV's Sway Calloway Considered Leaving The Network] . "VIBE": January 10, 2006.]

Discography

With King Tech

References


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