Ouiwey (pronounced ooo-WHEE) is the professional name of William Collins Jr., producer/rapper/singer and son of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bootsy Collins. He was raised by his mom, Patricia Johnson, but he saw Bootsy on weekends and summers, whenever he wasn't touring. At 20, he moved in with his dad.When he was 8, Ouiwey got his first drum machine from his father. It was a piece of equipment that had been used in Bootsy's recording studio and had no instruction manual. Ouiwey gives him credit for that. "He would give me studio equipment and he wouldn't give me a book ... so I would have to just learn it. Now I can learn any piece of equipment without any instructions. That's basically what I've had to do all my life. I had to figure it out. But I learned a lot from him, as far as engineering and the way music should sound."He pays tribute to his dad on his debut album, Son of the Funk, and Ouiwey says the most important thing his father taught him was both musical and spiritual."Keep it on the One (meaning both God and the downbeat) and everything else will fall into place."
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