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True House Stories interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana

True House Stories® is a interview podcast series hosted by dance music icon, Lenny Fontana. It features candid and often untold stories from influential figures within the realm of house music. The show delves into personal anecdotes, pivotal moments, and behind-the-scenes tales from various DJs, producers, and other individuals who have made an impact in the house music scene. The podcast offers listeners an insider’s perspective on the history, evolution, and culture of house music through

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Mark Farina interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana...

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2022/01/26

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ MARK FARINA # 075 - PART 2 Mark Farina speaks about his club life and getting a job at the record store in Chicago. He makes his alliance with Derrick Carter and Stacey Pullen. Shelter Club gives him his first residency in Chicago and the rest is the history. He then works hard to become one of the few DJ’s that travel around the USA and Canada for the last three decades. He has plans to keep rolling forward and never stop. 👕OUR NEW MERCHANDISE SHOP:

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00:30:00

JaBig interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana # 074...

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2022/01/12

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JABIG # 074 - PART 1 JaBig shares with us his life as a young man in Africa and making the transition of moving to Canada. His DJ career begins with teenage dances and two stereos. He teaches himself the art of blending vinyl, CD’s and cassettes. The most important part in the beginning of his music journey was the selection of music. He always wanted to have all the right music that would make the people happy. This he feels is his strongest asset as to why people love his

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00:53:28

JaBig interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana # 074...

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2022/01/12

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JABIG # 074 - PART 2 JaBig is one of the first DJ’s to utilize the internet to its fullest in the early part of the 2000’s. He saw a massive opening with a new platform called YouTube to showcase and stream his mixes. He took the risk and uploaded his mix on there and it took off immediately. Years and years of working on YouTube he has uploaded over 800 different mixes. Over time and copyright control with all the take downs he now has about one hundred mixes up and adding new

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00:32:45

Chad Jackson interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/12/15

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ CHAD JACKSON # 073 - PART 1 Chad Jackson sits with Lenny Fontana and discusses in this episode how he started his life in the music with piano lessons. He also was dancing a lot at all the big events in the northern scene. He begins his music career as a record collector and following the dj's. He befriends Manchester DJ Greg Wilson and the rest is history. 👕OUR NEW MERCHANDISE SHOP: https://truehousestories.com/shop-merchandise/#!/

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01:32:37

Chad Jackson interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/12/15

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ CHAD JACKSON # 073 - PART 2 Chad Jackson in this part talks about his start with his new professional DJ work in the clubs. He begins in the northern part of the UK and is given the chance to take over from DJ Greg Wilson. As he explains it the baton was passed on to him and he is focused on making his Radio show an incredible listening experience on Radio Piccadilly Manchester. In 1986 he decided to sign himself into the DMC World Competition which landed him second place for

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00:32:46

Kayper interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana #...

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2021/12/08

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ KAYPER # 072 - PART 1 Kayper sits with us on True House Stories and explains how she became a DJ from being a drummer. She gets her humble beginnings from her brother purchasing two Technics 1200 and just learning on her own. She even explains how her name Kayper came to be from her school days. She gets a call from a friend who was promoting a student night at Ministry Of Sound and her big break and she is then offered a residency at the club. One thing leads to another and

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01:00:08

Kayper interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana #...

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2021/12/08

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ KAYPER MONDESIR # 072 - PART 2 Kayper in this segment explains how she finds a college outside London to study Music Technology. Listen to hear talk about her parents try to discourage her from being a DJ. Against all the odds she pushes on and then at one gig a BBC talent agent discovers her and experienced her set and asked her to come for a meeting at Radio and try out for a show. She is offered a weekly show on BBC Xtra. She goes in to detail about what it is like to work

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00:32:17

Crystal Waters interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/12/01

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ CRYSTAL WATERS # 071 - PART 1 Crystal Waters a true icon in house music speaks about her humble beginnings from a young child and being exposed to some of the greatest musicians because of her dad who was a famous jazz musician. She toured with her dad as a young artist and was able to get an education of what it is like to be an artist. As she finished college she takes a job with the State, at the Parole Board. Hungering to write music she hooks up with a keyboard player and

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00:45:28

Crystal Waters interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/12/01

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ CRYSTAL WATERS # 071 - PART 2 Crystal Waters in this part shares with us her life after success and at the same time trying to define herself as a true dance pop artist. She was in the middle of a divorce and battling with her production company and record label over the contracts through her lawyers. As you will hear from herself this is never an easy thing to be dealing with especially when there is a lot of money involved. It's a constant battle to learn the new techniques

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00:31:44

Johnny D De Mairo (Henry Street Records) interview...

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2021/11/24

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JOHNNY “D” DE MAIRO (HENRY STREET RECORDS) # 070 - PART 1 Johnny D De Mairo in part 1 speaks about his start from his older sister introducing him to disco music and then in 1979 walking into a roller rink and hearing this music as well at the teen disco. At that moment he knew his life changed and wanted to be part of this music thing. He finds Disco and it becomes everything. His young professional career starts as a mobile DJ and it so happens that he asked to DJ at a Sweet

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01:37:16

Johnny D De Mairo (Henry Street Records) interview...

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2021/11/24

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JOHNNY “D” DE MAIRO (HENRY STREET RECORDS) # 070 - PART 2 Johnny D De Mairo in this part speaks about his professional music life, the beginnings of Henry Street Music, his promotions duties at SIN Promotions, and to eventually being hired to work at Atlantic Records in Crossover A&R Promotion. He shares with us what the responsibilities are expected when you are working to hold down these positions. He signed one of the most incredible songs in dance music The Bucketheads

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00:32:44

Ray Pinky Velazquez interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/11/17

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ RAY PINKY VELAZQUEZ # 069 - PART 1 Ray Pinky Velazquez gets his start from his father being the manager of an equipment famous Electric Shop called Leonard's Electrics back in the 1970s. The owner of the Brazilian Disco called Ipanema spoke to Ray's dad and Ray's father advised the owner to try his son out for the DJ position. Well to say the least Ray went to the tryout and the rest is history. Come listen to this legendary Disco DJ tell it all. 👕OUR NEW MERCHANDISE SHOP:

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02:02:41

Ray Pinky Velazquez interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/11/17

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ RAY PINKY VELAZQUEZ # 069 - PART 2 Ray Pinky Velazquez known as the DJ, Artist, A&R, Remixer and Editor speaks about his beginnings of 99 Prince Street Record Pool. He leaves that pool to join Eddie Rivera's IDRC Record Pool and because of that move, Eddie helps put him forward for the A&R Consultant at Vanguard Records. In this part he explains what it was like working for older owners of a famous jazz label looking to step into Disco and all the wonderful records he

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02:19:42

Rowetta interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana...

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2021/11/14

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ ROWETTA SPECIAL SHOW 007 Rowetta who is considered true musical royalty in our music business. Against all the odds of growing up rough, she pursues a musical career. Her adult life begins very young being married at age 16 and having two kids before she is 18. She tells it all from being a battered young wife to the front lead singer of the Happy Mondays. A very special Sunday Edition and a must watch for women to see that against it all you can overcome any obstacles with

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00:32:43

Jens Lissat interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana...

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2021/11/10

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JENS LISSAT # 068 - PART 1 Jens Lissat explains his young life as a child in Hamburg Germany. His mom was a DJ who played at a afternoon tea dance with one Gramophone. His older sister has a huge influence on him and since she was seven years older she was already up on the new sounds of disco. She was bringing home new music that he was listening to and Jens personally was more into Glam Rock. His sister takes him to a new club and he sees an American DJ for the first time

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01:29:38

Jens Lissat interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana...

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2021/11/10

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JENS LISSAT # 068 - PART 2 Jens Lissat in this part talks about his life in the music business. He picks it up from Disco and how he works his way into getting different residencies in other cities in Germany. He also self learns editing with the cassette pause button. The next phase of his life will be “The Megamix”. His first professional job comes from WEA and they ask him to work on Phil Collins with three of his songs to make a Jens Lissat Megamix. This is when he meets

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00:32:11

Ron Carroll interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana...

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2021/11/03

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ RON CARROLL # 067 - PART 1 Ron Carroll joins us on True House Stories for a special tell all no holds bar deep interview. He is a true Chicago native and a huge contributor to the house music scene. His humble beginnings start with school dances and throwing house basement parties. He even creates a house basement party that becomes huge in the South Side of Chicago where he was inviting guests DJ's such as Lil Louis and Gene Hunt. Ron was destined from day one for success and

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01:36:57

Ron Carroll interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana...

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2021/11/03

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ RON CARROLL # 067 - PART 2 Ron Carroll’s DJ Career in the late 1980s is cut short and you can hear why in this part of the interview. The Poster Wars Begin and Ron is blackballed from being able to promote or DJ at any parties in Chicago. Because he is shut out this now forces him to find another way to earn money in the music business. He discovers music production as his saving grace. In the productions world he hooks up with Ed Matthews and they together start to write

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00:32:45

Darryl Payne interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/10/27

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ DARRYL PAYNE # 066 - PART 1 Darryl Payne with his six decades of music tells it all right from his start in 1976 and helps tell a story how he battled the beast of the music industry. A true David and Goliath story in the real life. He began his career working for the discos in New York as a promoter and with his experience as a drummer he started to go into the studio and create demos in the beginning of the disco era. Come listen to him lift the hood and tell it all. 👕OUR

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00:48:41

Darryl Payne interview podcast hosted by Lenny...

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2021/10/27

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ DARRYL PAYNE # 066 - PART 2 Darryl Payne pound for pound one of the best dance producers to come out of New York City. He gives the inside scoop to what it takes to make it. He dealt with it all the biggest powers in the music business and dealing with the mafia and all. The story is a life lesson. He still doing it today making new songs and pushing his streaming service. He is a true legend and that is why he is the staying power. 👕OUR NEW MERCHANDISE SHOP:

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