Chuck Brown, the gravelly voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk’s percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at the Johns Hopkins University hospital in Baltimore. He was 75. The death was confirmed by his manager Tom Goldfogle. The [...]
D.C. Go-Go Legend Chuck Brown Dies at 75
May 16, 2012 | Posted by
Chuck Brown was the Godfather of “go-go” music — a funky, percussion-heavy sound popularized in the Washington, D.C. area. News of his death Wednesday was particularly stunning because Brown performed in an ageless fashion, even at 75. Brown had been hospitalized with pneumonia symptoms and apparently passed from multiple organ failure. The iconic figure in [...]
