Terrence Parker

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Terrence Parker is an American disco - / Funky House - DJ and music producer from Detroit .

In addition to his real name, he used a variety of pseudonyms for his productions, including Seven Grand Housing Authority, 2 Sweat Doctors, Disco Revisited, Fishtail, Jovan Blade, Lake Mead Drive, The Lost Articles, Madd Phlavor, Minimum Wage Brothers, Plastic Soul Junkies , Polartronics, Prolific, Telephone, Tia's Daddy. He also became known because he used a converted telephone receiver instead of headphones when mixing. This earned him the nickname The Telephone Man .

Life

Parker was influenced by gospel and later by early Detroit techno . After Parker made a name for himself in the Detroit club scene as a hip-hop DJ, he turned to house more and more in the late 1980s. His productions have appeared on labels such as 430 West Records and K7 .

In 1993 he released his first track under the pseudonym Seven Grand Housing Authority. The Question became a club hit, especially in Europe, and Parker was awarded a contract in Great Britain with the record label 6 × 6 , a sub-label of Sony Music . After commercial release, the single entered the UK charts in October 1993. The club hit I Wanna Go Higher followed in the same year .

After separating from Sony Music, Parker only released for the Intangible Records label . His club hit Love's Got Me High helped this label to gain worldwide renown. After various other productions, the debut album by Seven Grand Housing Authority was released in 1997 , which Parker produced in the Berlin studio K7 .

Since 2007 he has been publishing mainly on his own label Parker MusicWorks .

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
The Question (as Seven Grand Housing Authority)
  UK 70 10/23/1993 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1996: Terrence Parker - Tragedies Of A Plastic Soul Junkie (Studio! K7)
  • 1997: Terrence Parker - Detroit After Dark (Studio! K7)
  • 1997: Seven Grand Housing Authority - No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper (exit)
  • 1999: Terrence Parker - Strong Songs Album (Chisel)
  • 2010: Terrence Parker feat. Coco Street feat. Roller8 - World Turning (Parker MusicWorks)

EPs & Singles

  • 1992: Terrence Parker - TP1 (430 West)
  • 1992: Terrence Parker and The DJB - Call My Name (The Remixes) (430 West)
  • 1992: Terrence Parker - Hold On (Trance Fusion)
  • 1992: Terrence Parker & Claude Young - The 4 Play EP (Dow Records)
  • 1993: Seven Grand Housing Authority - The Question (Made In Detroit Mixes) (Simply Soul)
  • 1993: Seven Grand Housing Authority - I Wanna Go Higher (Serious Grooves)
  • 1993: Seven Grand Housing Authority - Soul Beats (Simply Soul)
  • 1994: Seven Grand Housing Authority - Jessica (It Feels Alright) (Serious Grooves)
  • 1993: Terrence Parker - I Wanna Get 'Cha (Trance Fusion)
  • 1994: Terrence Parker - Disco Disciple EP (6 × 6 Records)
  • 1995: Seven Grand Housing Authority - Love's Got Me High (Intangible Records & Soundworks)
  • 1996: Terrence Parker - Pure Disco (Studio! K7)
  • 1997: Terrence Parker - Detroit After Dark EP (Studio! K7)
  • 2001: Terrence Parker - The Real Right EP (Metamorphic Recordings)
  • 2002: Terrence Parker - Nothing Will Separate Me From The Love Of God (Real Right Recordings)
  • 2005: TP featuring Bishop Edmund Griffin, SR. - I'm Happy (Original Mixes) (Chiba City)
  • 2005: Terrence Parker feat. Coco Street - Let God Arise (Chosen Few Records)
  • 2006: Terrence Parker featuring Darnell Kendricks - Yours Truly (Superb Entertainment Records)
  • 2008: Terrence Parker - The Lost Classics EP (Parker MusicWorks)
  • 2011: Terrence Parker - Beautiful Life (Transit Records Kyoto)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Terrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American house DJ and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century