Frankie Knuckles
USA
Born: 18 January 1955
Genres: Electronic, R&B, Pop/Rock
Styles: Dance, Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, R&B/Soul, Acid House, Electronica, House, Club/Dance, Post-Disco, Alternative Dance
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The man many call the godfather of house, Frankie Knuckles began DJing in New York in the early '70s while still a teenager, years before the disco boom which proved to be the first flowering of modern dance music. Ten years later he was in Chicago, putting together megamixes of old disco hits with new drum-machine percussion for an appreciative audience at crucial clubs like the Music Box and the Warehouse. Another decade on from those first formative steps for house music, Knuckles was back in his New York home, working as a producer and remi...
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