The Chicago house music scene is mourning the loss an iconic figure. Charles "DJ Funk" Chambers died earlier this week. He was a pioneer in the unique Chicago music style Ghetto House. The Chicago ...

“I come from the projects and that’s considered the ghetto, the bottom of the pile,” DJ Deeon told Vice in 2016, “but we saw nothing wrong with that.” Credit: Courtesy of Tasia Carter In the mid- and ...

In the last year, appreciation for house music has seen a bit of a renaissance. ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: That's a Beyonce reference. I got it. And it's true. The genre emerged in Chicago, and we're going ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer before his death ...

DJ Funk, the Chicago legend who coined the term "ghetto house," has died. The musician, whose real name was Charles Chambers, was 54. Funk's death was confirmed to PEOPLE by his friend and ...

Charles Chambers, also known as “ghetto house” music pioneer DJ Funk, has died at the age of 54. People reports that the music innovator was confirmed dead by his friend and collaborator DJ Slugo. “He ...

The Chicago house music scene is mourning the loss of an iconic figure. Charles Chambers, known as DJ Funk, died of cancer this week. He was 54. Jonas Adams, who's a producer at ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, ...

Chicago house icon DJ Deeon passed this week. The producer pioneered the "ghetto house" subgenre in the early 1990s. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news ...