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74 relations: AllMusic, Asthma, Ball culture, Blues, Brooklyn, C+C Music Factory, Camille (American singer), Chaka Khan, Chep Nuñez, Chicago house, Club Zanzibar, Continental Baths, Cult following, Dance Music Hall of Fame, David Mancuso, Disc jockey, Drag (clothing), Drum machine, Dub music, East Village, Manhattan, Electronic dance music, Endocarditis, Erasmus Hall High School, Eumir Deodato, Evangelicalism, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Flatbush, Brooklyn, François Kevorkian, Frankie Crocker, Frankie Knuckles, Garage house, Gospel music, Greenwich Village, Gwen Guthrie, Harlem, Heart failure, Heroin, Hip hop music, Hippie, HIV/AIDS, House music, Jazz, Justin Berkmann, Kraftwerk, Louisville, Kentucky, Manhattan, Manuel Göttsching, Mass (liturgy), Matmos, Mel Cheren, ..., Ministry of Sound, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York City, Nicky Siano, Nightclub, Paradise Garage, Phencyclidine, Philadelphia soul, Post-disco, Punk rock, Record producer, Studio 54, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Taana Gardner, The Beach Boys, The Loft (New York City), The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, The Sound Factory Bar, Vibe (magazine), Walter Gibbons, WBLS, White flight, 2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman, and a Dominican. Expand index (24 more) »
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Asthma
Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.
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Ball culture
Ball culture, the house system, the ballroom community and similar terms describe an underground LGBT subculture in the United States in which people "walk" (i.e., compete) for trophies and prizes at events known as balls.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.
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C+C Music Factory
C+C Music Factory is an American musical group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés.
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Camille (American singer)
Camille Filfiley, known professionally as Camille, is an American singer best known for her recordings with Eumir Deodato and her prominence in the early 1990s freestyle music and dance music genres.
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Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens, March 23, 1953) is an American recording artist whose career has spanned five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist and focal point of the funk band Rufus.
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Chep Nuñez
Chep Nuñez (real name: Jose Chep Nuñez; born 1964 in Dominican Republic, died in December 8, 1990 in New York City, United States, Discogs) due to a fire in his Manhattan apartment building, was an American music producer, editor and mixer.
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Chicago house
Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago.
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Club Zanzibar
Club Zanzibar was a dance club that opened in 1979 at 430 Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey.
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Continental Baths
The Continental Baths was a gay bathhouse in the basement of The Ansonia Hotel in New York City which was opened in 1968 by Steve Ostrow.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.
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Dance Music Hall of Fame
The Dance Music Hall of Fame was an organization established in 2003 to honor and remember significant contributors to the genre of dance music.
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David Mancuso
David Paul Mancuso (October 20, 1944 – November 14, 2016) was an American disc jockey who created the popular "by invitation only" parties in New York City, which later became known as "The Loft".
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Drag (clothing)
The slang term "drag" refers to the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex, and may be used as a noun as in the expression in drag, or as an adjective as in drag show.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.
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Dub music
Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.
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East Village, Manhattan
East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Endocarditis
Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium.
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Erasmus Hall High School
Erasmus Hall High School was a four-year public high school located at 899-925 Flatbush Avenue between Church and Snyder Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Eumir Deodato
Eumir Deodato de Almeida (born 22 June 1942) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.
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Evelyn "Champagne" King
Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
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Flatbush, Brooklyn
Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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François Kevorkian
François Kevorkian, alias François K (born 10 January 1954), is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner.
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Frankie Crocker
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937, Buffalo, New York – October 21, 2000, aged 62 North Miami Beach, Florida) was an American, New York radio DJ.
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Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Warren Knuckles Jr. (January 18, 1955 – March 31, 2014), was an American DJ, record producer and remixer.
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Garage house
Garage house (originally known as "garage music"; also "New York house") is a dance music style that was developed alongside house music.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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Gwen Guthrie
Gwendolyn "Gwen" Guthrie (July 9, 1950 – February 3, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter and pianist, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, Angela Bofill and Roberta Flack.
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Heart failure
Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Hippie
A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
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HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Justin Berkmann
Justin Berkmann (born December 1963), is a DJ and nightclub owner.
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Manuel Göttsching
Manuel Göttsching (born September 9, 1952) is a German musician and composer.
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Mass (liturgy)
Mass is a term used to describe the main eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity.
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Matmos
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore.
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Mel Cheren
Melvin Cheren (1933 – December 7, 2007) was a record executive who helped start the Paradise Garage, also known as "Gay-rage", a New York City gay discothèque popular in the 1970s and '80s.
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Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio.
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Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Mount Sinai Beth Israel is a 799-bed teaching hospital in New York City.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano (born March 18, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former resident DJ at Studio 54.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Paradise Garage
The Paradise Garage, also known as "the Garage" or the "Gay-rage", was a discotheque in New York City notable in the history of modern dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures.
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Phencyclidine
Phencyclidine (PCP), also known as angel dust among other names, is a drug used for its mind altering effects.
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Philadelphia soul
Philadelphia soul, sometimes called Philly soul, the Philadelphia sound, or TSOP, is a genre of late 1960s–1970s soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns.
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Post-disco
Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Record producer
A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.
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Studio 54
Studio 54 is a former nightclub and currently a Broadway theatre, located at 254 West 54th Street, between Eighth Avenue and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Taana Gardner
Taana Gardner is an American disco and post-disco singer who found her success through West End Records from 1979 to the present day.
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
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The Loft (New York City)
The Loft was the location for the first underground dance party (called "Love Saves the Day") organized by David Mancuso on February 14, 1970, in New York City.
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The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast is the sixth studio album by Matmos.
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The Sound Factory Bar
The Sound Factory Bar was a nightclub at 12 West 21st Street in New York City's Manhattan.
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Vibe (magazine)
Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones.
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Walter Gibbons
Walter Gibbons (April 2, 1954 – September 23, 1994) was an American record producer, early disco DJ and remixer.
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WBLS
WBLS (107.5 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary FM radio station in New York City.
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White flight
White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
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2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman, and a Dominican
2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman and a Dominican was a short-lived house music group featuring David Morales and Robert Clivillés (Puerto Ricans), David Cole (Black), and Chep Nuñez (Dominican).
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