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- The adventures of Grandmaster Flash
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-01-01
hip hop
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Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler on January 1, 1958 in Barbados) is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Saddler's family migrated to the United States, and he grew up in the Bronx. He became involved in the earliest Queensbridge, New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries. Learning from Pete Jones and Kool Herc, he used duplicate copies of a single record and two turntables <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Grandmast
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Barbados
- Place of birth
- Bridgetown
- Occupation
- disc jockey
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Polar Music Prize
- Genre
- electro
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.grandmasterflash.com
- Image
- Grandmaster Flash - James Lavelle's Meltdown Festival 2014 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Grandmaster Flash
- date of birth
- 1958-01-01
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- pseudonym
- Grandmaster Flash
- social media followers
- 53279
- name in native language
- Joseph Saddler
- birth name
- Joseph Robert Saddler
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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