Grandmaster Flowers
American rapper and DJ
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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.
February 13, 1954[citation needed]
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| Background information | |
| Born | Jonathon Cameron Flowers February 13, 1954[citation needed] |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Died | June 26, 1992[citation needed] (age 38) |
| Genres | Disco, hip hop, breaks, funk |
| Occupation | DJ |
| Years active | 1968–1992 |
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]