Kurtis Blow

hip-hop/rap

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New York Colden Auditorium at Kupferberg Center for the Arts 8:00 PM Thu 22 Oct
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Kurtis Blow is a hip hop pioneer from Harlem, New York, and the first rapper signed to a major label, Mercury Records, in 1979. His single "The Breaks" became the first certified gold rap record. Across a career of 17 albums, beginning with "Kurtis Blow" (1980), he later became an ordained minister, founded the Hip Hop Church in Harlem and chaired the Hip Hop Museum.