Birth name Kevin Smith Associated acts DJ Hollywood Genres Hip hop music | Role Musician Name Lovebug Starski | |
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Occupation(s) Rapper, DJ, record producer Similar People DJ Hollywood, Kurtis Blow, Busy Bee Starski, Spoonie Gee, DJ Kool Herc | ||
Starski, Live At The Fever - Lovebug Starski
Amityville (The House On The Hill) - Lovebug Starski
Lovebug Starski (born Kevin Smith, May 16, 1960, The Bronx, New York City) is an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "hip-hop".
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- Starski Live At The Fever Lovebug Starski
- Amityville The House On The Hill Lovebug Starski
- Albums
- Singles
- References
Starski recorded his first single, "Positive Life," on the Tayster record label in 1981 Sampling by the British Group MARRS with the single number one : Pump up the Volume in 1987. Later, he recorded a song for the soundtrack of the 1986 film Rappin', which was released on Atlantic Records, before recording his first album, House Rocker, on Epic/CBS Records. This featured his most successful chart single, "Amityville (The House on the Hill)," a parody song named in reference to the film The Amityville Horror (itself based on alleged supernatural activities surrounding the DeFeo murder case) was a #12 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1986.
Lovebug Starski and World Famous Brucie B also worked together at the Rooftop Roller rink in Harlem during the 1980s. In the 1990s, Starski began DJing again with his friend DJ Hollywood.
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