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1967 wanderte DJ Kool Herc aus Kingston (Jamaika) in die Bronx ein. Er veranstaltete Partys im Freizeitraum eines Wohnblocks in der 1520 Sedgwick Avenue und entwickelte Stile und Techniken, die für die spätere Hip-Hop-Musik charakteristisch wurden.
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DJ Kool Herc (born April 16, 1955, Kingston, Jamaica) Jamaican American disc jockey (deejay or DJ) who is credited as the founder of hip-hop, a musical and cultural movement that revolves around four elements: rapping, graffiti painting, B-boying, and deejaying. In 1973 Herc introduced a number of innovations at a party he deejayed and cohosted tha...
Clive Campbell is the eldest of six children born to Keith Campbell, who worked as an automobile mechanic, and Nettie Campbell, who was a nurse. His father was an avid record collector who exposed his children to many musical genres and styles, including jazz, funk, and gospel music. Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, Campbell was also influenced by the neighbourhood parties at local dance halls and the innovative sound systems that deejays devised for the parties. In 1967 he immigrated to the Bronx in New York City, where his mother had moved to live and work. Eventually, the entire family joined them, and they moved into an apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.
Campbell attended the Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the Bronx, where he earned the nickname Hercules for his muscular physique. He became involved with a crew of local graffiti artists, and he began using the tag name Clyde as Kool for his graffiti. Soon, he started going by Kool Herc. His mother took him to house parties in the neighbourhood, and eventually he began throwing block parties where he served as a deejay. Herc was known for his powerful sound system and impressive collection of funk and soul music records. He drew on his Jamaican background for his deejay style, incorporating a Jamaican musical tradition called “toasting,” in which the deejay spoke, or “rapped,” improvised rhymes over the music.
On August 11, 1973, Herc’s sister Cindy Campbell hosted a back-to-school party, for which she hired her brother to deejay. The party was held in the recreation room of their apartment building on Sedgwick Avenue. In a 1998 interview with writer Frank Broughton, Herc recalled the party as “Lovely. Charged 25 cents for girls, 50 cents for fellas, 50 cents for sodas…beer was a dollar.”
He introduced a new technique at the party that allowed him to keep playing the percussive instrumental breaks in songs for a longer, continuous dance flow. At previous events he noticed that the breaks brought out more people to dance. By setting up two turntables and a mixer and playing two copies of the same record, he was able to loop and extend the breaks so that guests could dance to them for longer periods of time. To build his grooves, he favoured breaks from heavy funk songs such as “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose” by James Brown, “Bongo Rock” by the Incredible Bongo Band, “Get into Something” by the Isley Brothers, and “Listen to Me” by Baby Huey and the Babysitters. Herc also began naming, or “calling out,” individual dancers at the party to encourage them to show off their moves. He called his two-turntable technique “merry-go-round” and the dancers who performed during the breaks “break-boys and break-girls,” or “B-boys and B-girls.”
Music historians credit Herc’s innovations and experimentation at this event with providing the foundation for hip-hop, and August 11, 1973, is now considered the birth date of hip-hop. His techniques and style influenced the earliest rappers and hip-hop artists, including deejays Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash.
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After the back-to-school party, Herc continued to deejay at local events and clubs, such as the Twilight Zone in the Bronx. The events were promoted by word of mouth and handmade flyers distributed around the neighbourhood. He performed with a group of dancers, deejays, and MCs known as The Herculords, who rapped over his beats. He was known for his impressive sound system and stereo speakers, which were dubbed “The Herculoids.” However, Herc stopped performing after being stabbed while trying to break up a fight at a club gig in 1977. He told Spin magazine in a 2023 interview, “It drew me into a shell. The mystique wasn’t there no more.”
April 1955 in Kingston, Jamaika; auch DJ Kool Herc, bürgerlich Clive Campbell) ist ein US-amerikanisch-jamaikanischer DJ und Produzent. Er gilt als einer der Pioniere des Hip-Hop in den 1970er Jahren.
It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc's 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence.
Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973.
24. Juni 2019 · Kool Herc inspired Grandmaster Flash to be a DJ for example, and was the true king of the party scene in the West-Bronx. He was known for having an ‘innovative’ sound system that shook the ground and with that he became the first block party superstar that could draw a crowd anywhere in New York.
In this bio, we dive deep into the legendary DJ Kool Herc, the man behind the musical craze that has taken over the world. Read on to find out how one man led the explosive transformation of...
