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David Mancuso (David Paul Mancuso) was born on 20 October, 1944 in Utica, New York, is an American disc jockey (1944–2016). Discover David Mancuso's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As David Paul Mancuso
Occupation actor
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 20 October, 1944
Birthday 20 October
Birthplace Utica, New York
Date of death 14 November, 2016
Died Place New York, New York
Nationality United States

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1944

David Paul Mancuso (October 20, 1944 – November 14, 2016) was an American disc jockey who created the popular "by invitation only" parties in New York City, which later became known as "The Loft".

Mancuso was born on October 20, 1944, in Utica, New York.

He was born out of wedlock while his mother's husband was serving in World War II and lived in an orphanage for the first five years of his life.

Although he nominally resided with his mother thereafter, he remained a frequent runaway and spent a year in reform school as a teenager; during this period, he cultivated an interest in early rhythm and blues music.

1962

He dropped out of high school on his 16th birthday and worked as a dishwasher for two years to finance his move to New York City in 1962.

Over the next several years, he was employed in a variety of capacities (including stints as head of Holt Rinehart Winston's Xerox department and as a personnel manager for Restaurant Associates) before pursuing a career as an independent antiques dealer.

Mancuso continued to develop a highly variegated social network (a characteristic that he ascribed to his unconventional upbringing), frequenting rent parties in such disparate milieus as Harlem and Staten Island, while also immersing himself in the hippie culture of the era at such East Village venues as the Electric Circus, the Planetarium, and the Fillmore East (where he was present for notable performances by Timothy Leary and Nina Simone).

1966

He became an ardent devotee of Leary's The Psychedelic Experience (1966) after his initial experiments with LSD.

1970

The first party, called "Love Saves The Day", was in 1970.

Mancuso pioneered the private party, as distinct from the more commercial nightclub business model.

In the early 1970s, Mancuso won a long administrative trial when the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that he was not selling food or beverages to the public and therefore did not need a New York City cabaret license.

Mancuso's success at keeping his parties "underground" and legal inspired others, and many famous private discothèques of the 1970s and 1980s were modeled after The Loft, including the Paradise Garage, The Gallery, 12 West, The Flamingo and later The Saint.

Mancuso also helped start the record pool system for facilitating the distribution of promotional records to the qualified disc jockey.

Before hosting his first Loft party at his home at 647 Broadway in 1970, Mancuso was playing records for his friends on a semi-regular basis as early as 1966.

Mancuso's first major Loft party, called "Love Saves The Day", was held Saturday, February 14, 1970, at his home, at 647 Broadway.

Entitled Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, the book highlights the influence of Mancuso's late 1960s and early 1970s Loft parties on every major figure in the New York dance music scene, including Robert Williams, the founder of Chicago's Warehouse and Muzic Box; Frankie Knuckles, the DJ at the Warehouse, Nicky Siano, the founder of the Gallery; Larry Levan, the DJ at the Paradise Garage; Tony Humphries, the founder of Zanzibar; among numerous others.

1971

These parties became so popular that, by 1971, he and Steve Abramowitz, who worked the door, decided to do this on a weekly basis.

These parties were similar to rent parties or house parties.

1999

In 1999 and 2000, Mancuso and Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft, Volumes One and Two on Nuphonic.

2003

The importance of Mancuso and The Loft are also chronicled in Josell Ramos' documentary, Maestro (2003), a Paradise Garage and Levan-centered narrative of New York dance music culture in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 2003, British journalist and lecturer Tim Lawrence published an influential and comprehensive study of the New York roots of modern dance music culture that placed Mancuso at its narrative center.

2005

On September 19, 2005, Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding achievement as a DJ.

2006

On December 23, 2006, a nightclub named after Mancuso opened in Tübingen, in southern Germany.

2008

In May 2008, Mancuso, with the help of Goshi Manabe, Colleen Murphy, and Satoru Ogawa, launched his own audiophile record label, The Loft Audiophile Library of Music.

The music is mastered by Stan Ricker.

2016

Mancuso died at his home in Manhattan on November 14, 2016.