Kym mazelle biography
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Singer-songwriter Kym Mazelle ’86 celebrates 30 years of shaping House music.
By JT Lachausse ’18
Gary, Indiana, may be known as the birthplace of Michael Jackson, aka the King of Pop, but its also the birthplace of another member of music royalty: Kym Mazelle 86, the First Lady of House music.
Back in college, I was a single mother, says Mazelle, who graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a bachelors in Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management (now Business and Entrepreneurship). Going down to the clubs, to places like The Warehouse, I had to find time between working and interning and raising my daughter.
Established in , The Warehouse was a Chicago nightclub prominently known as the birthplace of the House music genre, which Mazelle describes as a result of DJs experimenting with dozens of various musical stylingsdisco, funk, soul, and jazzinto dance-focused tracks.
Before Columbia, Mazelle studied opera a
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Kym Mazelle
American singer (born )
Kym Mazelle (born Kymberly Grigsby; August 10, ) is an American singer. She is regarded as a pioneer of house music in the United Kingdom and Europe.[1][2] Her music combines R&B, soul, funk, house music, dance, and pop.[3] She is credited as "The First Lady of House Music".[1][4]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Mazelle was born in Gary, Indiana.[5] She lived on the same street as the Jackson family and knew Michael Jackson's mother and uncle.[6] In , she attended Mundelein College in Chicago. In , she transferred to Columbia College Chicago, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Arts and Entertainment Media Management in [7] During college, she worked part-time as an intern and sekreterare at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Career
[edit]In , she worked with record producer Marshall Jefferson (as House To House) on the single "Taste My Love", r
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Kym Mazelle biography
Raised in Gary, Indiana, Kym Mazelle grew up around the corner from one of pop music's reigning dynasties, the Jacksons. While the future success of the entire Jackson family may have already been written in the stars, early interactions with Michael, Janet, Tito, LaToya and the rest also marked Kym Mazelle as a future diva. Unintimidated by the family's star ställning eller tillstånd, Mazelle and the Jacksons would sing songs that the former had written, as they played together. Her mother would