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Afrika Bambaataa

American DJ, record producer, and rapper

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born: 1957
died: 2026
age at death: 68
known for: disc jockey, rapper, record producer

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Lance Taylor, known professionally as Afrika Bambaataa, was an American disc jockey, rapper and record producer. He was notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip-hop culture. Bambaataa was one of the originators of breakbeat DJing.

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