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Frankie Knuckles
American disc jockey and record producer
Also known as: Francis Nicholls
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contribution to electronic dance music
- In electronic dance music: Chicago and Detroit
In Chicago Frankie Knuckles, resident DJ at the members-only African American gay club the Warehouse, would make his own edits, on reel-to-reel tape, of the cult disco he played, extending the grooves to keep the all-night dance floor filled. When Knuckles—along with other DJs in Chicago, such…
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history of disco
- In disco: Influence on pop, new wave, house, and techno
One of house’s creators, Frankie Knuckles, was a deejay who had first made his name spinning disco.
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