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Joseph "Biggie Grand" Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an United States|American hip hop musician and disc jockey|DJ; one of the pioneers of Hip hop music|hip-hop disc jockey|DJing, cutting (music)|cutting, and audio mixing|mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop/rap artists to be honored.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2007-inductees | title=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2007 Inductees| accessdate=2007-03-18</ref>

Life and work
Saddler's family immigrated to the United States, and he grew up in the Bronx. He currently lives in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx. He became involved in the earliest New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries. Learning from Pete Jones and Kool Herc, he used duplicate copies of a single record and two turntables (for cutting) but added a dexterous manual edit with a mixer to promote the break (the ordinary playing of the record would be interrupted to overlay the break, the break could be repeated by using the mixer to switch channels while the second record was spun back). He also invented the technique initially called Cutting_%28music%29|cutting,{{Fact|date=November 2007 which was developed by Grand Wizard Theodore into... read all