Grandmaster Flowers

American rapper and DJ

Grandmaster Flowers

Grandmaster Flowers performing

Background information
Birth name| Jonathon Cameron Flowers
Born| February 13, 1954[citation needed]
Origin| Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died| June 26, 1992[citation needed]
Genres| Disco, hip hop, breaks, funk
Occupation| DJ
Years active| 1968–1992

Musical artist

Grandmaster Flowers (born Jonathon Cameron Flowers) was an American DJ from Brooklyn, New York. One of the earliest DJs to mix records together in sequence,[1][2] Flowers was one of the earliest pioneers of disco. Flowers was involved in the hip hop and funk scene and had a "formative influence" on hip hop DJs[3] such as Grandmaster Flash[4] and Afrika Bambaataa in the mid-1970s. Although respected by those he influenced, Flowers himself never attained the heights of his successors.

As he found his career fading due in part to competition from the younger up-and-coming DJs at the end of the 1970s, Flowers struggled with a drug dependency.[5]

Flowers died in 1992.[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ Abrams, Jonathan (3 October 2023). The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop. Crown. p. 6\. ISBN 978-1-9848-2515-5.
2. ^ Browne, P “The guide to United States popular culture” Popular Press, 2001. p.386
3. ^ Shapiro, P “Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco” Macmillan, 2006
4. ^ Price, E.G “Hip hop culture” ABC-CLIO, 2006. pp.25
5. ^ Kalia, Ammar (22 July 2019). "Hip-hop horseman: Fab 5 Freddy gallops through Renaissance art". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-07-22.