Fab Five Freddy
Musical Artist
1959 –
Who is Fab Five Freddy?
Fred Brathwaite, more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is a hip hop pioneer, visual artist and filmmaker. He emerged in New York's downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a camera operator and a regular guest on Glenn O'Brien's public access cable show, TV Party. There he met Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. In 1981, courtesy of a name check on Stein and Harry's new wave group Blondie's single "Rapture," he was immortalized when she rapped, "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late 1980s, Fab 5 Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking and first internationally telcast hip-hop music video show, Yo! MTV Raps.
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- Born
- 1959
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Fab 5 Freddy
- Frederick Brathwaite
- Fab Five Freddy Braithwaite
- Fab 5 Freddie
- Fred Brathwaite
- Fred Brathwaite aka Fab 5 Freddy
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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