Name	Specialty	Home Town	Email
cootdog	Vocals/Keys/Beat-Box	West Marin County (SF Bay Area)	coot(at)mysticroots.com

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Coot Wyman a.k.a. cootdog was born and raised in West Marin County in The San Francisco Bay. Coot has been practicing the hip/hop art of freestyle for almost 20 years, since nine years old. His Father was a touring musician and taught his son the fundamentals of music. Coot's life has been a path straight to success in the music business. In high-school he produced and recorded hip-hop albums with the groups Coco-Flip, TFC, 51-50, 2HP, and The Sac, which were locally very successful. Coot's songs were written as a rebellious voice opposing racism. His song "Let It Go" won him a college scholarship from the late Corretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Coot grew up with Shayne and studied piano from Shayne's father, Talc. Shayne and Coot had a hip-hop/R&B group together in the early nineties called The Next Dope Generation. After high-school, the two of them came together to Chico State to study Recording Arts. Shayne introduced Coot to the original members of Mystic Roots and Coot was recruited to rock the mic in a hip-hop style. Now cootdog sings lead vocals, background vocals, plays the keyboards, kicks a mean beat-box, and continues to rock the mic with tremendous vocal ability and force.
Having established himself as a solo-hip hop entertainer, cootdog has performed with the likes of The Sugar Hill Gang, Lighter Shade of Brown, Digital Underground, Whodini, Sir Mix A Lot, Mix Master Mike of the Beastie Boys, and many others. In 2002 Coot released a solo album featuring performances by Shock G of Digital Underground, Mystic Roots, Strictly Roots, Force Seven, Digital Underground, Cornerstone, and many other local, regional, and international recording artists.
The album and website are entitled: The cootdog project.

In 2002, coot founded Stay Positive Productions, an independent management company for Mystic Roots Band and his own solo projects. After moving the band down to Oceanside, CA to try the So Cal scene on for size, coot has remained committed to pushing MRB as far as he can. Having obtained a job at Cornerstone R.A.S. (formerly Skunk records), coot secured a distribution deal for MRB that now spans the globe.

Today, coot keeps himself busy when not touring with MRB, by DJing, running sound systems, working hard at Cornerstone R.A.S., keeping Stay Positive Productions alive through promotions, merchandising and management, and writing and recording new songs in the Stay Positive Studios.

Hobbies: Acting & theater, working-out, movies & martinis, poker & dominoes, traveling, rolling blunts, and being in the water. "Music is my career, not my hobby."

Quote: "I have 'nuff respect for all people trying to accomplish unity. I love to see all people living together as one. That is what the message of reggae music is all about. Let's unite for freedom of all beings and legalize the herb!!!"

"Never Been Better"

Influences:
The Notorious B.I.G., E-40, 2Pac, KRS-One, Eminem, Digital Underground, NWA, RUN-DMC, Jacob Miller, Sean Paul, Luciano, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, The Wailers, Damian Marley, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Santana, The Police, Sublime and Aerosmith.