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Fab 5 Freddy

Host · Performer

HostPerformer2 rooms · 37 connected figures

Biography

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Rooms they shaped

Roxy

1978–2007 (closed briefly 1989–1990) · Chelsea, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Host, Emceed the Wheels of Steel nights; bridged graffiti/hip-hop and downtown art scenes.

Club 57

1978–1983 · East Village, Manhattan

ClosedPerformance space

Performer, Graffiti artist and hip-hop ambassador; Club 57 regular and key cross-pollinator between Bronx hip-hop and downtown new wave scenes.

Connected figures

People who appear in the same rooms, follow the thread.

Afrika Bambaataa1 shared

Hip-hop pioneer associated with the Roxy

Andy Rees1 shared

Promoter

Ann Magnuson1 shared

Promoter

April Palmieri1 shared

Performer

Dany Johnson1 shared

Resident DJ

David Leigh1 shared

Promoter

DJ Red Alert1 shared

Ethyl Eichelberger1 shared

Performer

Frankie Knuckles1 shared

DJ whose early career is tied to New York before Chicago

Gene DiNino1 shared

Owner

Grand Mixer D.ST1 shared

Grand Wizard Theodore1 shared

Holly Woodlawn1 shared

Performer

Jazzy Jay1 shared

Jean-Michel Basquiat1 shared

Performer

Joey Arias1 shared

Performer

John Blair1 shared

Promoter

John Sex1 shared

Performer

Johnny Dynell1 shared

Junior Vasquez1 shared

Resident DJ associated with Sound Factory

Keith Haring1 shared

Artist embedded in downtown nightlife; Palladium commission

Kenny Scharf1 shared

Performer

Klaus Nomi1 shared

Performer

Larry Tee1 shared

DJ and promoter behind the Berliniamsburg / electroclash party

Lee Chappell1 shared

Promoter

Lypsinka1 shared

Performer

Marc Shaiman1 shared

Performer

Peter Rauhofer1 shared

Resident DJ

Richard Newhouse1 shared

Owner

Ruza Blue1 shared

Promoter

Scott Wittman1 shared

Performer

Stanley Strychacki1 shared

Owner

Steve Bauman1 shared

Owner

Steve Greenberg1 shared

Owner

Susan Hannaford1 shared

Promoter

Tom Scully1 shared

Promoter

Victor Calderone1 shared