HOUSE MUSIC!! It's a genre that keeps rhythm pumping and has been at the pulse of Chicago for many years. In the 80s, you could jam away at underground clubs, and today, people dance downtown during lunch breaks and dance all over the world at numerous venues. During COVID, DJ reels kept everyone from Hollywood to the Dirty South dancing away their blues. My friend, Donald Crossley, is a House Music Pioneer in Chicago. Who knew?!
Friends have been dancing with Donald for years, all through the 60s and 70s, but we never knew about him being a House Music impresario in the 80s. Whether you are a HOUSE HEAD or not, you owe it to yourself to watch the WTTW Documentary on House Music: A Cultural Revolution and listen to the Entrepreneurial Enclave podcast - Donald Crossley is My Truth. Garden Spices has both! Gate open. - Victorine
Donald L. Crossley is a lifelong Chicagoan who has always loved dancing and music. These passions led him and a few friends to travel to the Big Apple during the disco craze of the 1970s. After his mother suggested that he throw his own parties in Chicago, he became a co-founder of US Studios. He found a permanent location for his musical passion at the Warehouse. The movement Donald helped to start is known worldwide as ‘House Music.’ Donald is and has been a hospitality professional and a lover of life. Documentaries and accolades acknowledge his role in music history, and he spends his days of retirement reading, giving interviews, and viewing life through kaleidoscopic glasses, as he always ha
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