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Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles (born January 18th, 1955, in New York) is a DJ, record producer and remix artist. He has earned the appellation "The Godfather of House."
Godfather of House
By the late 1990s, the public's ador for house music had diminished, and it was no longer the world leading music genre it had become but Knuckles continued to produce some of his best work. The demand for his remix work was as high as ever, and he revamped the material of A-List recording artist's including Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Toni Braxton and many others. He released fewer original productions in the last years of the 1990s, but as the new millennium approached he worked closely with Definitity Records and released several successful new singles including "Keep On Movin'" and a re-issue of an earlier hit "Bac N Da Day". In 2004 he released a thirteen track album of original material - his first in over a decade, entitled A New Reality, which was critically well received.
In October 2004 "Your Love" appeared in the popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on house music radio station, SF-UR.
On 19th September 2005, Knuckles was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding achievement as a DJ. It is testament to his status as one of house music's most influential and respected artists and it is widely accepted that his style of DJing and his selection and the appeal of the Warehouse gave house music its name. Knuckles is arguably the pioneering DJ of his generation and is certainy one of house music's founding fathers.
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New York native Frankie Knuckles was the Dj from 1977 to 1982 at the Warehouse. It is widely accepted that his style of DJing and his selection and the appeal of the Warehouse gave house music its name, although in the beginning, the word house was used only in Chicago to denote something which would become cool, hip, fresh or bad, depending on place and time. Frankie Knuckles had been long time friends with Larry Levan, they had had their musical upbringing together from going to clubs like Loft and the Gallery Frankie Knuckles moved was born in the South Bronx of New York City on the 18th January 1955. He got into DJing after being offered a job by Tee Scott, who he sees as one of the legendary DJs, and was further prompted into it by Larry Levan when they used to work together back in 1972/73 at a New York club called The Gallery which was owned by Nicky Siano.
Frankie recalls the good old days: "The first club I ever went to was The Loft (David Mancuso's now-legendary private party); the first time I went there I wasn't sure what kind of crowd it was: at times it looked very straight, at others, very gay. At that point (in the mid Seventies), sexuality didn't mean a thing.
"Born in New York's Bronx more than four decades ago, Frankie Knuckles has done his time - and done it in some of clubland's most mythical spaces, including New York's Roxy and Sound Factory. He first took to the turntables in the late Seventies, mixing up disco and funky soul at gay venues like Better Days and the Continental Baths, before moving to Chicago in the late Seventies for a residency at the Warehouse, where modern dance music reached a crucial turning point.
The rumour that the term "house" music is derived from the name of this venue is probably not far from the truth, for it's almost certain that this is where - under throbbing strobes and among sweaty bare-chested men and the faintest whiff of amyl-nitrate - the trend found its feet. "The term 'House Music' is derived from the club that the music stems from, 'The WareHouse', in Chicago. Between 1977 and 1983 it was presided over by DJ Frankie Knuckles [he moved there from New York City in 1977], where he played a mixture of underground Disco, Funk, Soul and classic Philly sounds to a loyal following of predominantly black, gay clubbers.
To enhance the music, and create new sounds, innovative ideas were employed such as playing a Roland 909 drum machine under old Philly records - thus emphasising the beats. He would also blend in rhythm tracks that he'd created on reel-to-reel tape recorders to link and boost the music"
