Frankie Knuckles

American disc jockey and record producer
Also known as: Francis Nicholls

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contribution to electronic dance music

  • 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