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Reggie Davenport came of age to the sound of hot mixing Chicago radio DJs during the 1980s. Shows on WKKC helped train him as a music lover at a young age, and he has kept his finger on the pulse of house music radio in the City ever since. He also cultivated his love of house music even when he left home to serve in the armed forces abroad, partying around England and the UK when he wasn’t on base. Today Davenport DJs online and around Chicago as DJ Purple.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, DJ Purple, hotmixing, disc jockey
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
African American Studies | Gender and Sexuality | History | Latina/o Studies | Music | Regional Sociology
Recommended Citation
Salkind, Micah, "Interview with Reggie 'DJ Purple' Davenport" (2014). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 41.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/41
Comments
This interview is part of the Chicago House Music Oral History Project held at Columbia College Chicago and was captured for Do You Remember House? Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds authored by Micah Salkind and published in 2019. The work integrates histories of music, production, DJing, dance, fashion, and slang and addresses movements that led to the development of Chicago's house music.