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Sharon White

First woman to headline both The Saint and the Paradise Garage

Resident DJ1980s–present2 rooms · 23 connected figures

Biography

Sharon White, a Black lesbian DJ, is often named as the first woman to headline both The Saint and the Paradise Garage, and as the only DJ to have played both rooms. A trained percussionist and radio engineer, she is reported to have been Billboard's first female DJ reporter.

Sonic profile

garage disco houseThe SaintParadise Garage

White's sound sits in the soulful garage and disco lineage, and she is frequently noted as the rare DJ to have held both The Saint's high-energy, largely white gay floor and the Paradise Garage's Black and Latino crowd.

Rooms they shaped

Paradise Garage

1977–1987 · Hudson Square / west SoHo, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Resident DJ, First woman to headline the Garage.

The Saint

1980–1988 · East Village, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Resident DJ, One of the few Black, lesbian DJs of the scene.

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