On this blog today, I will be discussing Farley Keith Williams, also known as “Farley Jackmaster”. Born and raised in Chicago, Farley is known as the pioneer of House music. Farley started DJing at Chicago’s Playground in 1981, and stayed as a main DJ there until 1987. He was one of the original members of the ‘Hot Mix 5’ DJ team on Chicago’s WBMX radio station, which reached over a million listeners. Farley finally hit it big in 1986 with his hit “Love Can’t Turn Around” with his friend Darryl Pandy on the vocals (which he is commonly mistaken for because Darryl is the face in the popular music video). He is known as one of the most respected DJs in the UK and a regularly visits Great Britain and is a regular at some of the most prestigious venues on the other side of the world. He regularly attracts audiences of over 2500 and toured with Sundance around Europe throughout the summer. He has played at Matrix, one of the busiest and most popular clubs in the country numerous times and has regular gigs at Galaxy radio nightclub where he plays to 1500 clubbers. He travels from Chicago to Britain once a week to keep up with his career and the demand for his presence. With his long history, knowledge and talent for DJing and music producing its no wonder that Farley is known as “The Godfather of House”. With my first listen to Farley’s music I hear a good time. HE creates true dance music that many people have been able to grow upon and create their own identity from. He is the type of artist everyone should want to talk to, the path that he paved for many is great and any person should be happy to imitate him.Monday, April 18, 2011
Farley Jackmaster
On this blog today, I will be discussing Farley Keith Williams, also known as “Farley Jackmaster”. Born and raised in Chicago, Farley is known as the pioneer of House music. Farley started DJing at Chicago’s Playground in 1981, and stayed as a main DJ there until 1987. He was one of the original members of the ‘Hot Mix 5’ DJ team on Chicago’s WBMX radio station, which reached over a million listeners. Farley finally hit it big in 1986 with his hit “Love Can’t Turn Around” with his friend Darryl Pandy on the vocals (which he is commonly mistaken for because Darryl is the face in the popular music video). He is known as one of the most respected DJs in the UK and a regularly visits Great Britain and is a regular at some of the most prestigious venues on the other side of the world. He regularly attracts audiences of over 2500 and toured with Sundance around Europe throughout the summer. He has played at Matrix, one of the busiest and most popular clubs in the country numerous times and has regular gigs at Galaxy radio nightclub where he plays to 1500 clubbers. He travels from Chicago to Britain once a week to keep up with his career and the demand for his presence. With his long history, knowledge and talent for DJing and music producing its no wonder that Farley is known as “The Godfather of House”. With my first listen to Farley’s music I hear a good time. HE creates true dance music that many people have been able to grow upon and create their own identity from. He is the type of artist everyone should want to talk to, the path that he paved for many is great and any person should be happy to imitate him.
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Chelsea,
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome information. Farley Keith Williams is a legend like no other, I’m glad you picked him to write this post about. Your information is chronological and very easy to follow; I like it. The only thing I would keep an eye out for is that you tend to use the word “and” a lot in this post. But I agree with your statement that Farley paved a path for many to follow and many do indeed follow his path. Farley’s music is the dawn of house music, it’s because of him that house music is what it is.