Frankie Knuckles, legend and pioneer of house music in the 1970s and 1980s, was born in New York, where he began as a DJ next to another legend, Larry Levan, but his name will stay on forever to Chicago. It was there, in 1977, which would become the resident DJ of the club The Warehouse, eventually become one of the main faces of the legitimacy and popularity of house music. The house name comes precisely at the time: ie house, it was the music that Knuckles spent at The Warehouse.
Modern dance music was born there, in a mixture of bass lines of the song "record," some soul and European electronic pop beats and themes reinforced by a rhythm box Roland TR-909. In 1983 ended up moving to their own club, the Power Plant.
When house music from Chicago became well known globally between 1986 and 1987, he returned to New York, forming the Def Mix Productions with David Morales, starting work on remixes for some of the biggest pop celebrities of the time as Michael Jackson or Diana Ross .
Some of his work as producer best known are Your love (1985), Baby wants to ride (1997), You Got the Love (1985), all with voice Jamie Principle, or The whistle song (1991), belonging to his first album, Beyond The Mix. Despite the popularity of house music in those years, the big publishers do not bet much on gender and their second album, Welcome To The Real World, would only leave four years later.
Eventually through compilations, singles and remixes mainly (for the likes of Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Pet Shop Boys or Hercules & Love Affair) who was saying over the years, in addition to the activity of DJ, who never left.
In 1997 won a Grammy for Remixer of the year. In 2005 he joined the Dance Music Hall of Fame and there is a street in Chicago with his name since 2004. That same year, the August 25th was proclaimed Frankie Knuckles Day, the then state senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Since the 1990s acted in Portugal several times.
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