Darryl Pandy

CTL-E-0520 · Person · 1986–2026

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Darryl Pandy was a Chicago gospel singer whose vocal on Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk's 'Love Can't Turn Around' (1986) carried the house-gospel connection into the UK top ten.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-person-047; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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WCSU (https://www.wcsufm.org/2023-03-02/from-the-warehouse-to-the-world-chicago-and-the-birth-of-house-music) (primary source)
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Record CTL-E-0520 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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