"In a city that more often defines its music in rigid, old terms -- rock and roll or blues or rap -- The Glo are making music for the multicultural 21st century. Latin beats mix hip-hop production, and drum-line beats meet reggaeton grooves.... Born in San Diego, Gloria 'Glo' Lou studied trumpet and violin, playing in the youth symphony and youth mariachi band. As her father worked his way through academia, the family moved to Milledgeville, Ga., where Glo picked up a bluegrass influence and began singing in the high school chorus. By the time the family moved to Memphis four years ago, Glo was on a neo-soul kick. Then she met Jonwalter 'J20' Lewis one day when she was working at Oak Court Mall. The Memphis native had cut one R&B album when he was 18, and at the time was in a soul duo called A'drian that was competing in a radio station call-in competition. J20 was going around to the stores, asking people to vote for his group, when he met Lou. The two struck up a conversation about music. He told her he was a producer, and she told him she was a singer. 'I wasn't going to say I'm a singer and just leave it at that, so I sang to him in the middle of the store,' Lou says. The two began their collaboration in 2009. Lou says the evolution of their sound came quite naturally.'I was doing a lot of neo-soul, and when J20 came around, he made me listen to a lot of his music,' Lou says."... He had one that was a hip-hop beat, so I started singing on it. And from there his music started evolving, and my music started evolving, and we just grow together."Last year, they started the live band, which currently includes Ryan Richardson on drums, Tim 'Fatdaddy' Moore on keys, and Matthew Karner on bass. Soon after, the band was drafted into the Memphis Music Foundation's Latin artist development program, 'Cante el Exito.''Without them, this project probably would have taken five more years,' Glo says."- Mark Jordan."Duo Explores Multicultural Beat Fusion" Commercial Appeal [Memphis] May 11, 2012