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Richie Rivera
Resident DJ · DJ
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Rooms they shaped
Flamingo
1974–1981 · NoHo / SoHo border, Manhattan
Resident DJ, Puerto Rican DJ; also played the Firehouse, the Anvil, and the Sandpiper. One of the few people of color regularly present in the room.
Xenon
1978–1984 · Midtown, Manhattan
DJ, Documented alongside Tony Smith in a surviving 1978 archival recording (Mixcloud: 'Xenon NYC Live 1978, DJ Tony Smith / Richie Rivera, rare tape, side A'); among the earliest DJs at the room, predating or concurrent with Smith's 1979 full-time residency.
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