• Francis Grasso (March 25, 1948 – March 20, 2001) was an American disco music disc jockey from New York City, best known for being one of the first people...
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  • researcher Domenico Grasso (born 1955), American engineer and educator Ella Grasso (1919–1981), American politician Francis Grasso (1949–2001), American...
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    "key adjust" which changes the tempo while keeping the original pitch. Francis Grasso was one of the first people to beatmatch in the late 1960s, being taught...
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  • platter to accelerate. Slip-cueing was introduced to the disco scene by Francis Grasso, but the technique had been used for many years in the radio broadcast...
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  • it was the only song he received royalties for. American disc jockey Francis Grasso described the song as "rhythmically sensual". The Fatboy Slim version...
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    song using the DJ mixer's crossfader. Notable U.S. disco DJs include Francis Grasso of The Sanctuary, David Mancuso of The Loft, Frankie Knuckles of the...
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  • of the earliest DJs to refine their mixing skills was DJ Kool Herc. Francis Grasso was the first DJ to use headphones and a basic form of mixing at the...
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    voice, no reference to Overtone singing. While DJ pioneers such as Francis Grasso had used basic faders to transition between two records as far back...
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  • the techniques used by Kool DJ Herc and a pioneering disco DJ like Francis Grasso, who worked at Sanctuary, as they used similar mixtures and superimpositions...
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    underground disco scene, exemplified by DJs such as David Mancuso and Francis Grasso, from 1969 onwards, Brown did not consciously yield to the trend until...
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    CMA-10-2DL mixer, began to appear on the market. In 1969, American club DJ Francis Grasso popularized beatmatching at New York's Sanctuary nightclub. At the same...
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  • The Sanctuary, a disco music nightclub in 1970's New York starring Francis Grasso Sanctuary (band), a heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington Sanctuary...
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  • pioneer, '52 Olympic silver medalist] (1998 Hall of Fame inductee) Francis Grasso '67 – Early disco DJ David Groh '58 – actor (Rhoda) Gary Gruber, Ph...
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  • singer-songwriter, co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas (65) March 20 – Francis Grasso, disc jockey (51) March 28 – Moe Koffman, Canadian jazz singer (73)...
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    Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Grasso, John; Mallon, Bill; Heijmans, Jeroen (May 2015). Historical Dictionary...
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  • British nightclubs. This technique, which had been pioneered by DJ Francis Grasso in the clubs of New York City, enabled the DJ to create a non-stop sequence...
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  • Championship bout between current champion Valentina Shevchenko and Alexa Grasso served as the event's co-main event. A women's strawweight bout between...
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    Domenico Grasso (born 1955) is an American engineer, professor and the sixth chancellor of the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He has previously served...
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  • positions in all popular music categories except country and western". Francis Grasso opens the Sanctuary, the first "notoriously gay discothèque" in the...
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    name to honor the Jesuit cofounder Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missionary service. She had planned, like Francis Xavier, to be a missionary in the...
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  • Retrieved 5 July 2015. Aldo Grasso (7 October 2002). "La favola di Francesco". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 5 July 2015. St. Francis at IMDb v t e...
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  • a lawsuit against the New York Stock Exchange's former Chairman Richard Grasso to return $100 million to the NYSE that were part of his $139.5 million...
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  • 305". MMA Fighting. Retrieved 2024-06-17. Nolan King (2024-07-26). "Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko 3 to co-headline Noche UFC at Sphere". mmajunkie...
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    inauguration of Pope Francis was held on 19 March 2013 in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. Holy Mass was celebrated by Pope Francis before political and...
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    Cochran Ruth Colvin Marian Wright Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary...
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  • newcomer Pete Rodriguez. A women's flyweight between Viviane Araújo and Alexa Grasso was scheduled for the event. However, Araújo was forced to pull out from...
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    2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020. Grasso 2017, p. 3. Grasso 2017, p. 23. Grasso 2017, p. 52. Grasso 2017, p. 4. Grasso 2017, p. 104. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp...
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    under reworked statutes. On January 11, 1995, convicted killer Thomas J. Grasso, who had been sentenced to death by Oklahoma but was serving a sentence...
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    Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist...
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    T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 15 in 1981, Howell was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983). Howell played the lead role of Ponyboy...
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