Chuck Wren

CTL-E-0408 · Person · unspecified

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Chicago DJ Chuck Wren founded Jump Up Records in 1993 and has hosted the ska/reggae radio program 'Everything Off-Beat' since 1989.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-093; source research type(s): Person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Dying Scene, Jump Up Records label profile (dyingscene.com); Do312 event listing

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