Smokey Fontaine

Smokey Fontaine
Born	1972 (age 44–45) United States
Occupation	Music critic, writer
Spouse(s)	Stephanie Addison
Parent(s)	Pat Hartley Dick Fontaine

Named after the Motown legend, Smokey D. Fontaine is the Chief Content & Creative Officer of InteractiveOne overseeing the programming and development of the largest online network in the world dedicated to serving African-American, Latino and other diverse audiences. His charge includes iOne’s unique national sites: HelloBeautiful.com TheUrbanDaily.com ZonaDeSabor.com, NewsOne.com Elev8.com & GIANTlife.com and strategic partners: GlobalGrind and TheGrio. His mandate—to engage and empower the full and diverse range of “new urban” communities—is an editorial, technological, and brand-building achievement that has cross-platform (online, radio, TV, print) executions and unparalleled scale (82% of the US African-American population).

Interactive One, the standalone digital division of Radio One & TV One reaches > 22MM online users each month and has grown its audience >250% the past two years.

Fontaine's parents are African-American Jewish actress Pat Hartley (who appeared in several Andy Warhol films as well as Rainbow Bridge and Absolute Beginners) and British documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine (maker of the 1984 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip-Hop History, in which the young Fontaine can briefly be seen sitting next to DJ Kool Herc). Growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side around the corner from Rock Steady Park, home of the breakdancing pioneers Rock Steady Crew, Fontaine did some DJ'ing himself while attending Bronx High School of Science.

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