Lovebug Starski

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lovebug Starski
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1960(1960-05-16)
Age	64
Date Of Death	February 8, 2018, Las Vegas, NV
Birthplace	Bronx
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Taurus

Lovebug Starski Biography

Lovebug Starski is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on May 16, 1960 in Bronx, New York, United States.

Lovebug Starski and World Famous Brucie B also worked together at the Rooftop Roller rink in Harlem during the 1980s. In the 1990s, Starski began DJing again with his friend DJ Hollywood.

Starski recorded his first single, “Positive Life,” on the Tayster record label in 1981. (The British Group MARRS would sample this in 1987 with the #1 single “Pump Up the Volume”.) Later, he recorded a song for the soundtrack of the 1986 film Rappin’, which was released on Atlantic Records, before recording his first album, House Rocker, on Epic/CBS Records. This featured his most successful chart single, “Amityville (The House on the Hill),” a parody song named in reference to the film The Amityville Horror (itself based on alleged supernatural activities surrounding the DeFeo murder case). It was a #12 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1986.

Lovebug Starski Net Worth

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

Kevin Smith (May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018), best known by his stage name Lovebug Starski, was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term “hip-hop”. Starski claimed that he coined the phrase while trading the two words back and forth while improvising lines with Cowboy of the Furious Five at a farewell party for a friend who was headed into the Army.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Lovebug Starski Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Isabel Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lovebug Starski celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.

Who is Lovebug Starski What did he do that was of significance?

Lovebug Starski, the rap pioneer who popularized the term “hip-hop” and helped define the genre’s “party rocking” style , died at the age of 57. Kevin Smith, the Bronx DJ and rapper known as Lovebug Starski who is often credited with coining the term “hip-hop,” died Thursday at 57 following a heart attack in Las Vegas.

Who sang Amityville house on the hill?

Lovebug Starski

Who was the first black rapper?

One of the first rappers at the beginning of the hip hop period, at the end of the 1970s, was also hip hop’s first DJ, DJ Kool Herc. Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his parties, which some claim were inspired by the Jamaican tradition of toasting.

Is Capri a kid?

DJ Kid Capri
Born| February 7, 1967 New York City, U.S.
Genres| Hip hop
Occupation(s)| DJ, rapper, producer
Years active| 1987–present

Who is the first white rapper?

1989: Queens duo MC Serch and Pete Nice debut as 3rd Bass, the first white rap act for whom whiteness is not at least in part an uproarious crossover gimmick.