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Chuck Brown Dies: King Of D.C. Go-go Music, Influential Sample Source
latimes.com 1 week, 2 days agoWhen the funk music known as "go-go" comes up in casual conversation , and that's not nearly often enough , it's inevitably accompanied by the mention of one man's name: Chuck Brown. The Washington, D.C. funk band leader and composer, whose biggest hit was the 1978 song "Bustin' Loose," died Wednesday at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at age 75. He was the king of an East Coast subgenre that rose alongside New York funk and hip-hop in the 1970s and '80s. Featuring remarkable Afro-Cuban polyrhythms vi










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