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<\/a><\/p>\nJoseph Saddler’s family migrated to the United States from\u00a0Barbados<\/a>, in the\u00a0Caribbean<\/a>, and he grew up in\u00a0The Bronx<\/a>,\u00a0New York<\/a>. He attended\u00a0Samuel Gompers High School<\/a>, a public vocational school, where he learned how to repair electronic equipment.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Saddler’s parents played an important role in his interest in music. His parents came from Barbados and his father was a big fan of Caribbean and black American records. As a child, Saddler was fascinated by his father’s record collection. In an interview, he reflected: “My father was a very heavy record collector. He still thinks that he has the stronger collection. I used to open his closets and just watch all the records he had. I used to get into trouble for touching his records, but I’d go right back and bother them.”[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Saddler’s early interest in DJing came from this fascination with his father’s record collection as well as his mother’s desire for him to educate himself in electronics.[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0After high school, he became involved in the earliest New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries.<\/p>\n He is also a nephew to the late Former Feather Weight Champion of the World\u00a0Sandy Saddler<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grandmaster Flash carefully studied the DJing styles and techniques of earlier DJs, particularly Pete Jones,\u00a0Kool Herc<\/a>, and\u00a0Grandmaster Flowers<\/a>.[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0As a teenager, he began experimenting with DJ gear in his bedroom, eventually developing and mastering three innovations that are still considered standard DJing techniques today.<\/p>\n Joseph Saddler’s family migrated to the United States from\u00a0Barbados, in the\u00a0Caribbean, and he grew up in\u00a0The Bronx,\u00a0New York. He attended\u00a0Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[204,443,442,383,251,76,444],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freshradio","tag-dj","tag-flash","tag-gmf","tag-grandmaster-flash","tag-happy-birthday","tag-hip-hop","tag-south-bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[edit<\/a>]Innovations<\/h2>\n
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