Chicago DJ and produer, DJ Funk, has died at the age of 54. The ghetto house pioneer was a trailblazer. Details on his cause ...

Prior to his death, the musician was battling stage four cancer, according to a recent GoFundMe launched by his family.

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...

Legendary ghetto house pioneer DJ Funk has died at the age of 54. Born Charles Chambers, the Chicago-bred producer had stage ...

Their beats became the mothership of hip-hop and dance music. Their live shows were legendary ... or rump-shaking as P-Funk, with an Afrofuturist philosophy of funk as the cosmic life force ...

As a musical hub for funk music, Dayton, Ohio was very much apart of the movement responsible for its prominence and lasting ...

A cause of death was not confirmed, but the musician's family launched a GoFundMe to help cover funeral costs.

“Before hip-hop was made, there was a wealth of great music that people still need to go back and study, and those are the groups I focus on — Mtume, Funkadelic and P-Funk, of course,” Dam ...

Latin rock, Afro Cuban funk and many other names have been ... He attended medical school for two years. But music, he says, called, people like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the biggest ...

Funk's death was confirmed to PEOPLE by his friend and collaborator DJ Slugo. "He was one of the pioneers of the sound we call ghetto house music in Chicago," he wrote in an email statement.

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer before his death ...