Frankie Knuckles

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frankie Knuckles
Occupation	Dj
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1955(1955-01-18)
Age	69
Date Of Death	2014-03-31
Birthplace	Bronx
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Frankie Knuckles Biography

Frankie Knuckles is one of the most popular and richest DJ who was born on January 18, 1955 in Bronx, New York, United States. International DJ, who was recognized as the father of House Music. He was admitted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

He has worked on tracks for numerous artists including He has reworked tracks for many artists, including Michael Jackson..

Born in The Bronx, Knuckles and his friend Larry Levan began frequenting discos as teenagers during the 1970s. While studying textile design at the FIT, Knuckles and Levan began working as DJs, playing soul, disco, and R&B at two of the most important early discos, The Continental Baths and The Gallery. In the late 1970s, Knuckles moved from New York City to Chicago, where his old friend, Robert Williams, was opening what became the nightclub called Warehouse. When the club opened in Chicago in 1977, he was invited to play on a regular basis, which enabled him to hone his skills and style. This style was a mixture of disco classics, unusual indie-label soul, the occasional rock track, European synth-disco and all manner of rarities, which would all eventually codify as “House Music”. The style of music now known as house was named after a shortened version of the Warehouse.

In 1982, Knuckles was introduced to then-unknown Jamie Principle by mutual friend Jose “Louie” Gomez, who had recorded the original vocal-dub of “Your Love” to reel-to-reel tape. Louie Gomez met up with Frankie at the local record pool (I.R.S.) and gave him a tape copy of the track. Knuckles played Gomez’s unreleased dub mix for an entire year in his sets during which it became a crowd favorite. Knuckles later went into the studio to re-record the track with Principle, and in 1987 helped put Your Love and Baby Wants to Ride out on vinyl after these tunes had been regulars on his reel-to-reel player at the Warehouse for a year.

The place he was raised was The Bronx, New York.

Frankie Knuckles Net Worth

Frankie Knuckles is one of the richest Dj from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frankie Knuckles 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He completed his studies in the field of textile Design in The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

In 2005 In 2005, he was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to the genre.

Francis Warren Nicholls, Jr. (January 18, 1955 – March 31, 2014), better known as Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer and remixer. He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music in Chicago during the 1980s, when the genre was in its infancy. In 1997, Knuckles won the Grammy Award for Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical. Due to his importance in the development of the genre, Knuckles was often called “The Godfather of House Music”.

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Knuckles made numerous popular Def Classic Mixes with John Poppo as sound engineer, and Knuckles partnered with David Morales on Def Mix Productions. His debut album Beyond the Mix (1991), released on Virgin Records, contained what would be considered his seminal work, “The Whistle Song”, which was the first of four number ones on the US dance chart. The Def Classic mix of Lisa Stansfield’s “Change”, released in the same year, also featured the whistle- like motif. Another track from the album, “Rain Falls”, featured vocals from Lisa Michaelis. Eight thousand copies of the album had sold by 2004. Other key remixes from this time include his rework of the Electribe 101 anthem “Talking with Myself” and Alison Limerick’s “Where Love Lives”.

Facts & Trivia

Frankie Ranked on the list of most popular DJ. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Frankie Knuckles celebrates birthday on January 18 of every year.

In October 2004, “Your Love” appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on the house music radio station SF-UR.

What happened to Frankie Knuckles?

Death. In the mid-2000s, Knuckles developed Type II diabetes. He developed osteomyelitis after breaking his foot snowboarding, and had it amputated after declining to take time off for treatment. On March 31, 2014, he died in Chicago at the age of 59 due to the complications from his diabetes.

Where is Frankie Knuckles from?

Bronx, New York, NY

Who did Frankie Knuckles influence?

It influenced European rave culture in the late ’80s and now what we call EDM – electronic dance music. You can trace its roots back to what Frankie Knuckles was doing at the Warehouse in Chicago in 1977, ’78, ’79.

How old is Frankie Knuckles?

59 years (1955–2014)

Did Frankie Knuckles invent house music?

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.