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Born: January 18, 1955 in New York, NY [The Bronx]
Years Active: 80 's, 90 's, 00's
Genre: Electronic

Biography:
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 au... Continue Bio >>

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Discography:
2004 New Reality
2002 Motivation
2001 Out There: 2001 Mardi Gras
2000 Choice: A Collection of Classics
1995 Welcome to the Real World
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