Another decade on from those first formative steps for house music, Knuckles was back in his New York home, working as a producer and remixer for the biggest pop stars in the business. Ten years later he was in Chicago, putting together megamixes of old disco hits with new drum-machine percussion for an appreciative audience at crucial clubs like the Music Box and the Warehouse. The man many call the godfather of house,, an out gay producer, remixer, began DJing in New York in the early 1970s while still a teenager, years before the disco boom which proved to be the first flowering of modern dance music. INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 Īs a producer, remixer, and DJ, Frankie Knuckles is the inventor and popularized of “house” music, known worldwide as “Chicago house” and named after Chicago’s Warehouse nightclub, where he drew huge crowds between 19.
