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DJ Kool Herc; Originator of break-beat D.J.-ing; the original B-boy.(Brief Article)
Meet the founding father of hip-hop. In 1967, Clive Campbell emigrated from his original hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, to the Bronx. Influenced by the traveling disc jockeys he had seen back home, he set himself up with a booming sound system and began playing records at parties. He found that reggae didn't go over as well as funk-and he noticed that certain sections of each song, the beat breaks, really got people moving. So he isolated the breaks, playing them over and over again by cross-fading from one turntable to another turntable that had the same record on it. Thus, hip-hop D.J.-ing-eventually to become the foundation of a multi-billion-dollar industry-came into ...
- VH1 Brought the House Down With Its Inaugural Salute to Hip Hop Dignitaries DJ...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 4, 2004 700+ words
...forces since the emergence of rock 'n roll by honoring DJ Kool Herc, DJ Hollywood, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Rock Steady...and Ice T pay tribute to original DJs Hollywood and Kool Herc. Wyclef Jean presented Fat Joe and Terror Squad who...
- Music: Herc unchained; He was one of the pioneers of hip hop, but has never...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) Barnes, Jake March 17, 2000 700+ words
...Brown was the godfather of soul, then Kool Herc was the godfather of hip hop, creating...Who started hip hop?', answers 'Kool Herc'." Born in Jamaica, Herc worked as...for the hip hop pioneer. There's a Kool Herc website in the pipeline and a recording...
- FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . DJ KOOL
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Alona Wartofsky August 7, 1994 700+ words
Local club deejay turned rapper DJ Kool's "Twenty Minute Workout" is burning up WPGC - no surprise, given that radio station's interest in area artists. Listeners...
- REVIEW; A master at work.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Rooney, Peter January 28, 2000 700+ words
DJ Kool Herc Trash Nightclub DJ Kool Herc is one of the few artists who can genuinely claim to have started a scene. At block parties in the Bronx in 1974 - a couple of years before Grandmaster Flash or Sugarhill Gang were on the scene - Kool Herc...
- The rise of hip-hop: hip-hop is a new culture that goes way back. (News...
- Magazine article from: Know Your World Extra Peters, Jennifer L. January 31, 2003 700+ words
...Jamaica in the House Jamaican disc jockeys also helped to form hip-hop. DJ Kool Here (Clive Campbell) played in New York City clubs in the 1970s. Kool Herc and other DJs brought in scratching. Scratching is when a vinyl record is spun...
- HIP-HOP CAMP BRINGS CULTURE TO NORFOK YOUTHS.(NORFOLK COMPASS)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot July 24, 2003 700+ words
...Tipps" in a photo caption. And DJ Kool Herc was inspired by James Brown, the...poetry. The father of hip-hop, DJ Kool Herc, was born in Jamaica and inspired...toasts during breaks in records. DJ Kool Herc brought the style to the Bronx...
- Sedgwick & Cedar, Where it All Began in 73'; The first ever vintage Hip Hop...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 3, 2005 700+ words
...March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary Hip Hop pioneers DJ Kool Herc, Father of Hip Hop, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster...began. On one fateful night, on August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc's sister Cindy Campbell decided to throw a back to...
- Coming Up on VH1 October 8 - October 14, 2004.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 7, 2004 700+ words
...DOWN WITH ITS INAUGURAL SALUTE TO HIP HOP DIGNITARIES DJ KOOL HERC, DJ HOLLYWOOD, KRS-ONE, PUBLIC ENEMY, ROCK STEADY...forces since the emergence of rock 'n roll by honoring DJ Kool Herc, DJ Hollywood, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Rock Steady...