Zo!

Fusing soul, funk, and jazz with a hip-hop perspective, Lorenzo "Zo!" Ferguson advances what James Mtume termed "sophistifunk" with a modern twist. While Ferguson could have been classified as a beatmaker based on his early hip-hop releases and productions for others in the early 2000s, he has always been a musician first. Foremost a keyboardist, yet one who also plays bass, drums, and guitar, and writes, arranges, and produces his own material, he has subsequently thrived with a sound inspired by multi-tasking originators like Stevie Wonder, Larry and Fonce Mizell, and Leon Sylvers III. From 2010 through 2019, beginning with ManMade and closing out the decade with FourFront, Ferguson issued three solo albums and ventured into writing and producing music for film and television, including the series Black Dynamite and Sherman's Showcase. He has since teamed with Tall Black Guy to deliver the albums Abstractions (2021) and Expansions (2026).