A Chicago DJ and producer known as "The Godfather of House Music" passed away Monday. Frankie Knuckles, 59, lived in Chicago and is widely credited with helping to define the post-disco sound that ...

The world of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) was shocked to learn today of Frankie Knuckles‘ death at just 59 years of age of complications from diabetes. Knuckles moved from New York and started ...

He wasn’t, sadly, the currently best-known or most celebrated house music act around. So when the great Frankie Knuckles finally started trending on Twitter last night, it was too late and for too sad ...

CHICAGO -- The man known as ''the godfather of Chicago house music'' has died. Frankie Knuckles came to Chicago from New York in the 1970s. He was a driving force behind house music, a type of disco ...

The legendary Frankie Knuckles, the “godfather of house music,” passed away at the age of 59 on Monday. Knuckles’ longtime business partner, Frederick Dunson, confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that ...

As the shocking news spread like wildfire, the dance music community hoped beyond hope that news of his passing was a cruel April Fool’s Day joke, but it soon became clear that Chicago House Music ...