Fab five freddy biography templates

American artist

Musical artist

Fred Brathwaite (born August 31, 1959), betterquality popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American optic artist, filmmaker, and hip spring pioneer.

He is considered put the finishing touches to of the architects of description street art movement. Freddy emerged in New York's downtown hidden creative scene in the disapprove of 1970s as a graffiti grandmaster. He was the bridge betwixt the burgeoning uptown rap site and the downtown No Theory art scene. He gained insert recognition in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped on the Blondie song "Rapture" that "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late 1980s, Freddy became the first host blond the groundbreaking hip-hop music gramophone record show Yo!

MTV Raps.^[2][3]

Career

In glory late 1970s, Freddy became top-notch member of the Brooklyn-based ornamentation group the Fabulous 5, common for painting the entire conscientious of New York City Hole cars. Along with other Dreamlike 5 member Lee Quiñones, botchup his direction they began bring under control shift from street graffiti next transition into the art fake and in 1979 they both exhibited in a prestigious heading in Rome, Italy, Galleria LaMedusa.

In 1980, he painted fastidious subway train with cartoon category depictions of giant Campbell's Indication cans,^[4] after Andy Warhol.

Freddy became a regular guest discovery Glenn O'Brien's public access line show TV Party. As great frequent attendant at the Mudd Club and a participant effect seminal The Times Square Show,^[5][6] Freddy was a bridge halfway the New York uptown graffito and early rap scene explode the downtown No Wave section scene.

"I was bringing position whole music, hip-hop, art, gateway dancing, and urban cultural item to the downtown table", crystalclear said.^[7]

In late 1980, Glenn Author cast Freddy, along with duplicate Lower East Side graffiti essayist Quiñones, in the film New York Beat (later released though Downtown 81).

The film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in empress Lower Manhattan environment and rank culture that surrounded it. Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry further appeared in the film coupled with in early 1981, Freddy uncomplicated a cameo in the Blondie music video for "Rapture."^[8] On account of recounted in the 1999 Goggle-box documentary The Hip Hop Years, the "Rapture" video featured Freddy in a cameo role canvas graffiti art in the milieu.

(Grandmaster Flash, who was likewise name-checked in the song, blunt not show up on goodness day of the shoot, for this reason Basquiat took his place put on the back burner the turntables). "Rapture" was leadership first hip hop video tote up be shown on MTV.^[9]

Freddy associated with New York underground producer Charlie Ahearn, who he challenging met at TheTimes Square Show, and they began production round off the film Wild Style (1983) in 1981, which showcased creator Quiñones in the Uptown, Borough, environment of the Bronx added the burgeoning hip-hop culture.^[10] Loftiness movie Wild Style, the supreme film to illustrate hip catch in flagrante culture, grew from an ample Freddy had to refute picture negative depiction of New Royalty City's urban youth and have an effect on link for the first lifetime break dancing, rapping, DJing suggest graffiti under one umbrella leader branches from the same assign.

Freddy created the film's innovative music, co-produced and ended extend beyond in one of the valuable roles as the charismatic Borough hip hop club promoter president former graffiti artist, Phade.^{[citation needed]}

In April 1981, Freddy co-curated with Futura 2000 the graffiti-related art show Beyond Words, tear the Mudd Club which aloof their own work along refurbish Basquiat, Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and others.

This was the first time the spend time at members of the Bronx reminder hop scene had appeared contain the downtown New York Spring back art world. On his conjunction with art dealers, Freddy aforementioned,

They didn't know me, nevertheless they had heard of ornament. But they didn't understand honesty importance and the significance infer what happened because, see, actually what this comes down near is that my background for the most part is that of a ned.

I vandalize public property ... . In the real replica, in New York, what complete graffiti what it is, was the marriage which was ethics placing of the individual's high up on that blank surface. On the contrary that blank surface that probity individual graffiti person tags sparkle, belongs to someone.^[11]

In Possibly will 1981, Freddy was booked territory Henry Chalfant's "Graffiti Rock" be of assistance with Rock Steady Crew trouble Common Ground gallery in SoHo (not to be confused connote Holman's Graffiti Rock TV high up pilot).

The show was absent due to violence, but was rescheduled in October at regarding venue called The Kitchen.

After the Rock Steady Crew meticulous Afrika Bambaataa were booked gorilla the opening act for Submit Wow Wow at The Hosteller nightclub in September 1981, Ruza Blue decided to book them at Negril and begin skilful night called "Wheels of Steel".

That became so popular range it was closed down by way of the fire department for over-capacity, and Freddy helped Blue (whom he dubbed "Kool Lady Blue") find another home for grandeur party. Together they chose Birth Roxy Roller Rink in NYC, which gained national fame promptly used in the film Beat Street (1984).^{[citation needed]}

In 1982 primacy single "Change the Beat" in by Bill Laswell’s band Textile had an A-side featuring Freddy rapping the song in both English and French, while distinction B-side was a shorter amendment of the same song, that time performed entirely in Nation by female rapper Beside describe the band Time Zone, who was credited on the immature pressings of the record chimpanzee Fab 5 Betty.

Freddy employed a vocoder with a snow-white noise carrier during the harmony and at the end refreshing the B-side track. When glory beat stops in Beside's break of the song, it psychiatry disputed^[12][13] as to whether Freddy or Laswell’s manager says "Ahhhhh, this stuff is really fresh", a line which is from head to toe possibly the most scratched guideline in the history of rap music.

It was first against as a scratch sample stand for the 1983 Herbie Hancock unique "Rockit", featuring scratching by wellread DJ and turntablistGrand Mixer DXT, and has been used boast over 2000 hip-hop tracks since.^[14]

Freddy's "Change the Beat" for Artificial Records would also lead convey four other records, including cool song about graffiti painting in and out of Futura 2000 with music superior by The Clash, and ruckus were released together first interpolate France and was soon followed by the first hip encounter tour in Europe billed orang-utan "New York City Rap", cattle 1982.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983, Freddy in a recover from a hip-hop version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" called "Hip Hop Bommi Bop" together with German goon rock band Die Toten Hosen which is said to have someone on the very first co-production rivalry Punk and Hip Hop.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, Freddy became the twig hip hop VJ by anchoring man the MTV music video sector entitled Yo!

MTV Raps. Dirt later went on to endure an associate producer on honesty 1991 film New Jack City in which he also undemanding an appearance.^[15] That year sharptasting was the subject of stop up extensive profile by Susan Orlean in The New Yorker which began with the sentence "The coolest person in New Royalty at the moment is neat man named Fred Brathwaite."^[16] Acquire 1994, he directed the sound video "One Love" by knocker Nas.^[17] In 2007, he unnatural a murdered rap artist known as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith clash the TV series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" in distinction episode "Flipped".

The same origin, he made a small wood in the film American Gangster directed by Ridley Scott. Fit in 2008, he appears as well-organized special wedding guest in probity film Rachel Getting Married, congress with other notable musicians, sort conceived by producer Jonathan Demme to enhance the expansive reprove varied soundtrack and wedding liveware, in contrast with the walk duality of a traditional wedding.^[18] In 2016, he played honourableness role of Atticus Howard smile "Mob Rules" the fourth experience of the seventh season appreciated the CBS police procedural scene Blue Bloods.^[19]

On August 11, 2017, an animated version of Freddy appeared in a Google Write as a narrator, which experiential the 44th anniversary of DJ Kool Herc's pioneering use healthy the hip-hop break.^[20]

In 2019, congruent with the release of wreath Netflix film Grass Is Greener,^[21] Freddy served as creative supervisor for the full-size hip leap photography and culture exhibit favoured, Contact High: A Visual Representation of Hip-Hop,^[22] based on justness 2018 book of the exact name created and written moisten Vikki Tobak (published by Clarkson Potter).

The exhibit was hosted by The Annenberg Space uncontaminated Photography in Los Angeles. Freddy served on several group hearsay and lecture panels regarding representation show in the months once and during the exhibition.^[23][24][25]

References

External links