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.
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 ...
Music is a multi-layered thing, with multiple types for multiple people. Rap, pop, R&B, rock and country. You name it, it’s ...
A cause of death was not confirmed, but the musician's family launched a GoFundMe to help cover funeral costs.
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 ...
In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. It would one day make its home in Dayton, Ohio.
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/Facebook “He was one of the pioneers of the sound we call ghetto house music in Chicago,” he told People. “We love and miss you my brother, and I won’t let our sound die.” ...