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Francis Warren Nicholls Jr. (January 18, 1955 [1] [2] – March 31, 2014), known professionally as Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer, and remixer. [3] He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music, a genre of music that began in Chicago during the early 1980s and subsequently spread worldwide.
Frankie played Louie's unreleased dub mix for an entire year in his sets where it became a crowd favorite. Knuckles later went into the studio to re-record the track with Jamie Principle, and helped put "Your Love" and "Baby Wants to Ride" out on vinyl after these tunes had been regulars on his reel-to-reelplayer at the Warehouse for a year.
The award was first presented as the Grammy Award for Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 40th Grammy Awards in 1998 to Frankie Knuckles. While the award was under this name, it was presented without specifying a work; when it shifted to its current name in 2002 works were named.
The Warehouse was patronized primarily by gay black and Latino men, [4] who came to dance to disco music played by the club's resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles. Admission was five dollars and the club offered free juice and water to dancers. In the middle floor is where DJ Knuckles began to experiment with editing disco breaks on a reel-to-tape ...
The discography of American DJ Frankie Knuckles consists of two studio albums, a compilation album and twenty-two singles.. His debut studio album Beyond the Mix was released on August 6, 1991, via Virgin Records America.
"The Whistle Song" (Frankie Knuckles song), a 1991 single by American house music producer Frankie Knuckles "The Whistle Song" (DJ Aligator Project song), a 2000 song by Iranian-Danish producer DJ Aligator "There It Go (The Whistle Song)", a 2005 single by American rapper Juelz Santana "The Whistle Song", a song by Netsky from 2, 2012
Often considered an alias for Frankie Knuckles, who produced both of the group's landmark singles, [1] the Night Writers' discography was also written by the lesser-known duo of Jere McAllister and Henry Riley Evans, with original vocals for "Let the Music Use You" performed by Ricky Dillard. [2] "Let the Music Use You" was first released in ...
Frankie's Favorite club mix – 7:49; Frankie Knuckles radio mix – 3:50 The Masters at Work remix and Frankie Knuckles remixes all contain previously unheard vocals and ad-libs not heard on the original album version. This is because the remixers were given access to the master tapes of the song to produce their remix.