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House Music Chicago Testimony
by Lori Branch and Hannah Viti
House Music Chicago Testimony is an intimate oral history of Chicago house music, hosted by DJ and historian Lori Branch. Each episode goes deep with the pioneers, producers, promoters, and vocalists who built the genre from the ground up on Chicago’s South Side. These are stories about sound, community, memory, and the lives behind the music, preserved while we still have the chance. Produced by Lori Branch and Hannah Viti. Funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Events.
Episodes
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#6 Vick Lavender | "A Job in the Business"
“A Job in the Business” Vick Lavender has never taken the easy road. Born in Louisiana, and raised on Chicago's west side, he came up on dub tapes, Italo, and New Wave records before deep house had a name. DJ, producer, label owner & co-owner of Bridgeport Records, every step has been deliberate...
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#5 Dajae [Karen Gordon] | "Everyone Knows Dajae. Nobody Knows Karen."
Karen Gordon 'aka Dajae' grew up in West Englewood on Chicago's South Side. Music was in the house. Her father, Reginald Gordon, was a doo-wop singer who performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. She had the family gift and her mother nurtured it, but Karen's path to it was long and unsteady. She spent...
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#4 Toni Shelton | ”Everybody Has Somewhere to Go"
Toni Shelton, known throughout Chicago as Disco Tony, has been throwing parties since 1979. As the city's first solo female house music promoter, she's built a legacy that spans over four decades: the flyers with her face on them, the DJ battles, the iconic all-white parties that have brought...
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#3 Craig Loftis | "It All Started in Craig's Basement"
Some of the best history gets told between old friends. Before there were house music producers, there were kids in basements with cheap turntables and cheaper cassette decks, staying up all night trying to get the pause button just right. Craig Loftis was one of those kids. Craig Loftis, aka…
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#2 Robert Williams | "The Warehouse Would Not Have Existed"
Without Robert Williams, there may be no house music, or at least not as we know it today. As the founder and owner of the legendary Warehouse club, the space where Frankie Knuckles first DJ'd and where a genre was born, Robert is one of the most important figures in the culture's history. And…
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#1 Lori Branch | "I Feel Evangelical About the Music"
In this first episode of House Music Chicago Testimony, host Lori Branch tells her own story — from growing up on Chicago's South Side to becoming one of the first female DJs on the emerging house music scene in the early 1980s. She shares what it felt like to stand on stage, heart pounding…
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Teaser: Meet the Voices of Season 1
Before we even called it house music, these people were living it. In Season 1 of House Music Chicago Testimony, host Lori Branch sits down with five legends who were there at the very beginning. Robert Williams, the man who opened the Warehouse and set everything in motion. Craig Loftis, the...
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Trailer: House Music Chicago Testimony with Lori Branch
Every story about Chicago house music starts somewhere different. A record, a club, a night that changed everything. Host Lori Branch, a South Side-born DJ and historian who was there at the beginning, invites you into a series of intimate conversations with the pioneers who built the genre.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
House Music Chicago Testimony is an intimate oral history of Chicago house music, hosted by DJ and historian Lori Branch. Each episode goes deep with the pioneers, producers, promoters, and vocalists who built the genre from the ground up on Chicago’s South Side. These are stories about sound, community, memory, and the lives behind the music, preserved while we still have the chance. Produced by Lori Branch and Hannah Viti. Funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Events.
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House Music Chicago Testimony is an intimate oral history of Chicago house music, hosted by DJ and historian Lori Branch. Each episode goes deep with the pioneers, producers, promoters, and vocalists who built the genre from the ground up on Chicago’s South Side. These are stories about sound,...
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