DJ Kool Herc, whose original name is Clive Campbell, (April 16, 1955; Kingston Jamaica). He is a Jamaican-American musician and producer, known as "The Father of Hip Hop" in the 70s
Infancia y primeros años
Clive Campbell fue el primero de los seis hijos del matrimonio formado por Keith y Nettie Campbell. Su infancia estuvo influenciada por los Sound system (Jamaica) y las fiestas callejeras acompañadas de Dj's (en Jamaica llamados 'Selectors'). Más tarde, se mudó a Bronx, Nueva York en 1967 y con 15 años comenzó a realizar exitosas fiestas callejeras. Su dedicación al cultivo de su musculatura le hizo ganar el apodo de 'Hercules' que Campbell adoptó en su nombre artístico como Kool DJ Herc
Breaks
In Bronx, in 1973, DJ Kool Herc realized how much the audience was animated every time the most rhythmic part of James Brown's funk songs sounded, and in which there was no lyrics; the so-called breaks. DJ Kool Herc then decided to take the needle of the record player and manually return it to the point of the song in which he had begun the break of it to extend it as many times as he wanted.
At the party that DJ Kool Herc gave at No. 1520 on Sedgwick Avenue in West Bronx for his sister Cindy Campbell's birthday, he used two albums from the same album (according to the documentary "And you don't stop" it was a 2nd version of the song "Give it up or turnit Loose" of the "Sex Machine" LP of James Brown of 1970) to reproduce them one after the other and achieve the same effect that initially achieved manually by moving back the needle of the turntable, extending the break of the song. This was known as breakbeat and allowed the evolution and creation of new dance styles
B-boys and B-girls
All these boys and girls who regularly attended DJ Kool Herc sessions to demonstrate their talent dancing during the long breaks created by him, were popularly known as B-boys or B-girls (Break boys / girls). Guys waiting for those breaks to show their dance steps with sources as diverse as James Brown, dances of the Soul Train television program (blocking, popcorn, good foot, the robot) and the pirouettes of the kung fu movies
Influence on other artists![TIU-noticias-DJ-Kool-Herc.jpg]
Afrika Bambaataa inspired by DJ Kool Herc realized the change that music, dance, and graffiti were taking place in his neighborhood, seeing it as an alternative to the Gangs, drugs, etc., which he knew of his own meat in the Black Spades .
This resource connected rap with other genres that he used in his favor, including Funk and disco, Jamaican dub and technological minimalism, in view of the Bronx's social shortcomings. He used old-fashioned and familiar sounds and made them new successes.
Later, Grandmaster Flash would appear on the scene to perfect and continue the legacy of DJ Kool Herc.
In addition, the first crew of MC's in history was called Kool Herc and the Herculoids, which formed himself, Coke La Rock and Clark Kent. Kool Herc left the microphone to his companions, while he dealt with the turntablism.
According to DJ Kool Herc himself, his favorite artist was James Brown. Another sound that made it legendary was the break of "Apache" by Incredible Bongo Band.
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