House Music Chicago Testimony
House Music Chicago Testimony is a series of intimate conversations with the people who built Chicago house music. Hosted by DJ and historian Lori Branch, a South Side native who was there at the beginning, each episode goes deep into the stories of pioneers, friends, and well-known Chicagoans without whom the scene would not exist. 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 a grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Events.
Episodes
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 yet his full story, from foster care in Chicago to the backrooms of New York's gay nightlife scene, then back to Chicago becoming politicall...
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 through her shirt, at her first DJ battle. And she introduces the community of friends, mentors, and pioneers you'll hear throughout this seaso...
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 producer and DJ who was in the booth with Frankie Knuckles and helped shape the sound from the ground up. Toni Shelton, known as Disco Tony, ...
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. House Music Chicago Testimony is a living archive of sound, community, and the lives behind the music, preserved while we still have the chanc...
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