Frankie Knuckles: The (Ware) House Legacy
Frankie Knuckles and House Music: it’s hard to discuss one without the other, perhaps impossible.
By the time the ’80s had come, North Jefferson was perceived as a desolate industrial area west of Chicago. But at the corner of the city and in the heart of an area that had seemed to have been forgotten by God, one venue was able to re-ignite and convey the spirituality of an entire community and transform itself into its very own temple. We are talking about the mythical Warehouse that, with Frankie Knuckles at the helm, gave name to House Music.
The Warehouse sat right at the center of a 3-level edifice on that dark and sweaty party of town, celebrating every Saturday night the most physical of collective rites: dance music.
