Jeffrey Othello is an internationally know Author, Activist, Songwriter, and Musician. He's been professional songwriter since 1990, and was the founder and leader of the all-Black rock bands “The Wanted” and “Othello’s Revenge”. In 1991 he performed on both the Lollapalooza and Gathering of the Tribes festival tours, as well as being featured in a MTV 30-minute News Special entitled “Racism: Points of View”, which ran from 1991-1992. He toured and traveled nationally and internationally throughout the 1990s, and in 2002, was nominated for a JPF Songwriter Award. Also in 2002, he signed a licensing deal with producers Bunim-Murray, to provide music for MTV shows like THE REAL WORLD and ROAD RULES. Recently, he was featured in a 2003 exhibit at the National Broadcast Museum, chronicling his work on MTV and his views on racism in the music industry. In 2004 he wrote the book "The Soul of Rock ’N Roll: A History of African Americans in Rock Music", which has been called one of the most entertaining and cultur