The legendary house music DJ Frankie Knuckles has died, according to Chicago’s NBC 5 news network.
He was 59. The cause of Knuckles’s death has not been revealed yet but a statement is expected later today. Knuckles is widely recognised as “The GodFather of House Music” and has even had a street in Chicago named after him.
Fellow DJ David Morales tweeted: "I am devastated to write that my dear friend Frankie Knuckles has passed away today. Can't write anymore than this at the moment. I'm sorry." Questlove Jenkins of The Roots, the band that appears on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, also tweeted his shock at the death: "Frankie Knuckles was so underappreciated. He was the DJ that DJs aspired to be. True dance pioneer."
Knuckles played a set at Atlantis, The Palm's Sandance in October 2012. The Dubai-based DJ Marko Smokingroove was upset by the news this morning, and said: "If ever there was a legendary figure to look up to, it was Frankie Knuckles. He was a true innovator of house music – it was a honour to play in the same line-up as him.
