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Birth name |
Ryan Mitchell Wood |
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Born |
20 November 1975 |
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Origin |
San Leandro, California, United States |
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Died |
7 March 2007 (aged 32) |
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Genre |
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Occupation(s) |
Rapper, producer |
Ryan Mitchell Wood (20 November 1975 - 7 March 2007), better known by his stage name Woodie, was an American rapper and producer from Antioch, California. He started his own record company in 1997 called East Co. Co. Records. In 1998, he completed work on his debut solo album "You Influenced ", which he produced all by himself.
Woodie died of a self-inflected gunshot wound in Florence, Oregon on March 7, 2007. His wife was killed in a car accident prompting the theory that Woodie suffered from depression after her death.