Wayne Williams

CTL-E-0554 · Person · 1977

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Wayne Williams founded the Chosen Few Disco Corp. in 1977 with popular South Side DJs, part of the first wave that created house music; the crew launched the Chosen Few Picnic in 1990, now drawing 40,000+ attendees annually in Jackson Park.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-030; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Grooveist (2022); 5 Magazine (2015, 2019); Resident Advisor (2013, 2015)

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