| Other author/creator | Knuckles, Frankie, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Poole, Anthony, interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Frankie Knuckles |
| Portion of title |
Frankie Knuckles |
| Abstract |
Music producer and disc jockey Frankie Knuckles was born on January 18, 1955, in the Bronx, New York. He studied commercial art and costume design before he started to work as a disc jockey as a teenager in 1971. In 1977, Knuckles helped to open Chicago's The Warehouse and it was here that he pioneered what was to be known as house music. Afterwards, he opened his own club, the Power Plant, in 1982. Knuckles then joined David Morales and Judy Weinstein and they founded the Def Mix music production company, in 1989. In 1991, Knuckles signed with Virgin Records, becoming one of the first disc jockeys to sign to a major label. In 1997, he became the first disc jockey to win a Grammy Award for Remixer of the Year. In 2002, he released Motivation, which featured completely original tracks Knuckles passed away on March 31, 2014. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Anthony Poole, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2013 August 23. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2013.235 HistoryMakers |
