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It probably all began with the old R & B dusties of his mother, Tyree Cooper was impassionedly listening to.|Growing up on the streets of Chicago’s South Side Tyree Cooper discovered his love for the soul music of the 60ies. A first step was to join his Grammar school band at the age of 13 - playing the flute! His other passion at that time was playing basketball.|Both passions followed him to the high school where he met Mike Dunn and learned how to DJ. Listening to Farley “Jackmaster Funk”, “ The Hot Mix 5“, Ronny Hardy and the electrifying energies of Frankie Knuckles, Tyree was well schooled at an early age.|Eventually Tyree’s basketball skills awarded him at scholarship to the University of Wisconsin -Stout where the bourgeoning mixing skills were fine tuned.|Two years after college Tyree was already one of the most popular and highly sought-after DJs in Chicago. Then Vince Lawrence, of the garage funk band “Jesse Gang“ (founded by Jesse Saunders) persuaded Tyree to put together a demo tape of his music to start a career as a recording artist.|From now on it was only a question of time before signing the first record deal with the Chicago-based underground label D.J. International - that was in 1986. The first 12” – “I Fear The Night...
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