DJ Kelly Kel

20/07/2024

Looking for a DJ for your next event! Contact me DJ Kelly Kel at [email protected]

Specializing in:

- Weddings/Receptions
- Clubs
- Community events
- Parties and more

13/07/2024

Love this group!

The Gap Band, an American R&B and funk group, gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Formed in 1967 by brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson in Tulsa, Oklahoma, they initially struggled to find success with their early funk sound. Their big break came when they were signed by producer Lonnie Simmons, leading to their first chart successes with "Shake" and "I'm in Love" in 1979. Their 1980 album, The Gap Band III, reached No. 1 on the R&B chart and No. 16 on the Billboard 200, featuring hits like "Yearning for Your Love" and "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)." They continued to dominate the R&B charts with albums like Gap Band IV and singles such as "Early in the Morning" and "You Dropped a Bomb on Me." Despite declining album sales in the late 1980s, they achieved their final No. 1 R&B hit with "All of My Love" in 1989.🎸🎶🖤🐐🥇

02/07/2024

Sugarhill Gang: Others were more influential, but maybe only Run-D.M.C. were more impactful among groups of hip-hop’s first 15 years than the Sugarhill Gang. “Rapper’s Delight” wasn’t technically the first hip-hop record, but it was the first most suburban Americans ever heard, and the first to cross over to the top 40, peaking at No. 36 on the Hot 100. With a disco groove borrowed from Chic’s “Good Times” (and some lyrics controversially swiped from Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers), the instant classic remains one of the most important and enduring records in American popular music, spawning countless quotes and mini-catchphrases that are still part of hip-hop’s shared language today. And while it remains the group’s signature song, subsequent hits “Apache” and “8th Wonder” were also iconic early-’80s party-starters, sampled and referenced for decades to come.🐐👑🖤🎶

02/07/2024

I love this band!

01/07/2024

Congratulations to Lauren and Terry McCorry!
Had a blast as your DJ. Wishing you guys nothing but the best!

01/07/2024

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30/06/2024

Pete Rock & CL Smooth:They only recorded together for four years, but Mount Vernon, New York’s Pete Rock & CL Smooth left an indelible imprint on ’90s hip-hop. Rock’s mix of tight drums and inspired funk, R&B and jazz crate-digging made his production style one of the standard-bearers for East Coast rap. That combined with CL’s dexterous, commanding and soulful flows made sets like breakout 1991 EP All Souled Out and all-killer 1992 debut LP Mecca and Soul Brother among the most essential listens of their era. The duo’s signature song remains an absolute all-timer: “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.),” an impossibly poignant, smiling-through-the-tears elegy for late Heavy D & The Boyz dancer “Trouble T. Roy” Dixon — raised to the heavens by the greatest sax loop in rap history.🐐👑🖤

28/06/2024

Getting ready to DJ a wedding reception at the beautiful Goei Center in Grand Rapids. DJ season let’s go!

25/06/2024

One of the greatest entertainers of all time. I can’t believe it’s been 15 years. Michael is a cultural icon and his legacy will live forever.

20/06/2024

He was the last act scheduled on November 3, 1957, and after Ed introduced him, Sam strolled out looking very cool. The music started, he sang “Darling, you-ou-ou send me. I know…”, and the show was over. It was live TV, and the show had run long. The Sullivan Show received so many complaints that they immediately re-booked him.

So on December 1, 1957, Sam returned. Ed Sullivan introduced him by saying “Sam, here’s the time.” Dressed neatly in suit and tie, Cooke delivered a stripped-down version of “You Send Me.” His performance used little more than backup vocals to compliment his singing, and centered on Cooke himself. As he crooned directly into the camera, his effortless charisma and charming smile made him a hit with audiences. Right after the show aired, “You Send Me” reached number one on the Billboard Top 100, displaying just how successful his performance was.

Later in the show, Ed brought Sam onstage and apologized to him and the audience saying, “I did wrong one night here on our stage. And I never received so much mail in my life!” Sam, now dressed in a tuxedo, sang his rendition of “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons,” an R&B classic sung most famously by Sullivan show regular Nat “King” Cole in 1946. Ed Sullivan had always been a supporter of the civil rights movement, bringing on African-American artists like Nat “King” Cole before anyone else in the industry was. But while Cole had always been a very “safe” act, Cooke was pushing the envelope in regards to race and music. Cooke combined the smooth crooning style of past greats like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra with a soulful tone that many in Sullivan’s audience hadn’t previously heard.

In his tragically short life, Cooke made only a few television appearances, and The Ed Sullivan Show performance is one of the only ones that still exist. It proved once again that Sullivan was a reliable ally of the civil rights movement, and jumpstarted Cooke’s career as a pioneer of the “Soul” genre. Cooke’s musical style had a massive influence on the creation of Motown and on artists like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Sam Cooke also went on to become an important leader in the civil rights movement because of politically-conscious songs like “A Change is Gonna Come,” released after his controversial death at the age of 33. But Cooke had the platform to speak out about the issues of his day only because of his early commercial success and fame. And for that, he has The Ed Sullivan Show to thank.

In his book “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke”, Peter Guralnick writes that Sam’s music “still sounds as fresh, as elegant, as full of mirth, sadness and surprise as when it first emerged, translating somehow across the ages in ways that have little to do with calculation or fashion and everything to do with spontaneity of feeling, with a kind of purity of soul.”