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Grandmaster Flash
DJ, rapper
Born 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados
Raised in NYC Wikipedia
See Grandmaster Flash on the map
Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Grandmaster Flash to Morrisania, the Bronx. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at Fox Street
Fox Street, the Bronx: His building on this street became the marker of his turf, and he held his first block party right outside his home here in the late 1970s.
Source: amny.com
Places
- Disco Fever
- Samuel Gompers High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Disco Fever
1976–1986A South Bronx club on Jerome Avenue near 167th Street, open from 1976 to 1986. Its first Tuesday hip-hop night, in 1977, featured Grandmaster Flash; Run-D.M.C. played their first show here; and Kurtis Blow said he came to see what the street liked. In 1983 Bill Adler wrote in People magazine that it was “the rap capital of the Solar System”, per Wikipedia.
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