Daily News | Crystal Waters, Philly-area native and ‘house music icon,’ is glad Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ draws on her genre
Crystal Waters works recently on new music in a Takoma Park, Md., recording studio. She first found success in the 1990s with dance-floor hits including "Gypsy Woman ." Washington Post photo by Maansi SrivastavaBeyoncé's lead single “Break My Soul” has only solidified what many were already eager to call the” kicked off the season — but if you ask Crystal Waters, one of the OG’s of the genre with deep ties to the Philly region, she’d ask you not to call it a comeback.
House has its roots in Chicago, where “Godfather of House music” Frankie Knuckles would play a “mélange of disco classics, weird indie-label soul curiosities, the occasional rock track, European synth-disco and all manner of rarities,”. The genre was propelled by Black, Latino, and LGBTQ revelers in the Windy City and New York.
The song was based on a real Washington, D.C. woman who took great pride in her physical appearance and was determined to be independent despite falling on hard times.
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