Kurtis Blow

Film & TV

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

• N.W.A.: Not Without Alonzo2025
• Eve After Dark — Self2023
• The Hip Hop Nutcracker — Self - Cameo2022
• Beastie Boys Story — Self (archive footage)2020
• Groove Street — Himself2018
• G-Funk — Self2017
• A Very BET Christmas — Self2011
• White Lines and the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug — Self - Hip-Hop Icon2010
• Disco: Spinning The Story — self2005
• Il segreto del giaguaro — Himself2000

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1959-08-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

270,110

Total plays

1,204,012

Curtis "Kurtis Blow" Walker, (born on August 9, 1959, in Harlem, New York) is one of the pioneer rappers in the recording industry, and hip hop's first mainstream star. "The Breaks" (1980) is one of hip hop's undisputed classics, with its catchy disco tune and rapping style. Blow was influenced by DJ Hollywood. He became an MC in his own right around 1977, and changed his name to Kurtis Blow (as in a body blow) at the suggestion of his manager, future rap mogul Russell Simmons. <a href="https:/

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Walker

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Harlem

Occupation

rapper

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

hip-hop

Instrument

voice

Record label

Mercury Records

Image

Kurtis Blow im Musiktheater Bad (Hannover, Germany), 2012-03-30.JPG

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