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Frankie Knuckles, ‘Godfather of House Music,’ Dead at 59

Nobody can agree on who invented the blues or birthed rock & roll, but there is no question that house music came from Frankie Knuckles, who died Monday afternoon of as-yet-undisclosed causes at age 59. One of the Eighties and Nineties’ most prolific house music producers and remixers, Knuckles is, hands down, one of the dozen most important DJs of all time. At his Chicago clubs the Warehouse (1977-82) and Power Plant (1983-85), Knuckles’ marathon sets, typically featuring his own extended edits of a wide selection of tracks from disco to post-punk, R&B to synth-heavy Eurodisco, laid the groundwork for electronic dance music culture—all of it.

Frankie Knuckles: 5 defining tracks from the Chicago house pioneer

Knuckles made an abundant number of dance classics, including early Jamie Principle collaborations “Your Love”(1986) and “Baby Wants to Ride”(1987); “Tears”(1989), with Satoshi Tomiiee and Robert Owens; “The Whistle Song”(1991)

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This Week in House Music History: Frankie Knuckles

This week in House Music History, a look back and celebration of pioneering artist Frankie Knuckles. Known as the Godfather of House Music, he paved the way for dance music culture. He would have been 67 this week.

The Bronx-born artist studied textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. In 1971 began working as a DJ playing soul, disco, and R&B. He was a close friend of Larry Levan, resident at the legendary Paradise Garage. Knuckles soon became a regular at New York's top nightclubs such as Better Days. In 1977 he moved to Chicago when his friend Robert Williams opened the Warehouse.

The Warehouse was a nightlife staple among Chicago’s Gay, Black, and Brown communities. Dancers were free to express themselves with no worry. With Knuckles at the helm as a resident, DJs developed their own style and experimented with house music as it began to emerge from the Chicago underground.

He continued DJing there until 1982, when he started his club, The Power Plant. When the business became challengi

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FRANKIE KNUCKLES

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 [Now Deceased]

As 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 1977 and 1987. 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. 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. 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. His career spanned more time than any dance producer and without him, the landscape would be immeasurably different.

Born in the Bronx in 1955, Knuckles was influenced by many of the jazz