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,Browne, P “The guide to United States popular culture” Popular Press, 2001. p.386 Flowers was one of the earliest pioneers of disco.
Biography Flowers was involved in the hip hop and funk scene and had a "formative influence" on hip hop DJsShapiro, P “Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco” Macmillan, 2006 such as Grandmaster FlashPrice, E.G “Hip hop culture” ABC-CLIO, 2006. pp.25 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.
Death Flowers died in 1992.
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