J-Boog

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J-Boog (born Jarell Damonte Houston on August 11, 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is an American R&B singer, one of the former members of boy band B2K. He is the cousin of Marques Houston ; and he has no biological relation to his former band mate Omarion. He had a daughter in October 2005 with his girlfriend. He and former band member Lil Fizz are currently in a new movie set to be released in the fall of 2006 called "Steppin' the movie".

Jarell was 1/4 of the boy group B2K. The other with three members of the group are: Omarion (Omarion Grandberry), Raz-B (Demario Thornton) and Lil Fizz (Dreux Frederic). The name J-Boog came from his grandma calling him "Boogie" because of his love of dancing and the J simply the initial of his first name.

In "You Got Served", the movie which stared B2K, Marques Houston (Jarell's cousin) and Young Rome, Jarell played the character Rico, the peacemaker of the group, after originally being scripted to play David(Omarions role in the movie). In 2004 after B2K's breakup, Jarell along with Dreux "Lil'Fizz" Frederic started their own record label FBI (Fizz and Boog Inc).

Jarell hosted 106&Park on BET in August of 2005. Since the break up of B2K, Jarell has fathered a little girl with a lady with whom he's decided to try and settle down. Lil Fizz is the godfather to the little girl.

But now he's back in the studio with his own label The Capitalist Entertainment Group along with his manager and business partner Damuer H. Leffridge. Damuer H. Leffridge is the CEO of The Stonefield Companies, Inc. an international real estate firm specializing in real estate sales, financing and wealth management. Damuer is best known for his real estate consultations to such stars as Jaime Foxx, Jerry Rice, Tim Brown, Kanye West and a host of others. Damuer is also the CEO of Dirty Work Management where he manages J Boog, Lil Fizz and Maurice Clarett (Denver Broncos). They also have a roster of songwriters and producers. Together the two plan to change the face of west coast hip hop. J Boog is set to release his first mixtape entitled "The 6th Day" summer 06'. His highly anticipated album "My First Words" will follow spring of 07' with the smash single "Lickety-Lick".

He also currently has a sit-com this fall entitled "Mama's Boy's".

Lastly, he has decided to drop the "J" from his name is now simply known as Boog

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