Boombox, used by Fab 5 Freddy
Boombox, used by Fab 5 Freddy
- Description
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This boombox was made by Sharp Electronics, circa 1985. It is a portable music system, model HK-9000, with its dual tape decks, detachable speakers, built-in equalizer, AM/FM radio, and 2-fader microphone mixing was one of the largest boomboxes of the era.
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This boombox was used by hip hop pioneer, visual artist, filmmaker, and cable television host, Fab 5 Freddy, (born Fred Braithwaite). He was the first host of the groundbreaking hip hop music video show, "Yo! MTV Raps," in the late 1980s. Freddy has been forever immortalized on the American New Wave group Blondie’s hit single “Rapture,” when lead singer Debbie Harry rapped, “Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s fly.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- music system
- date made
- ca 1985
- maker
- Sharp
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- non-ferrous metal, eletrical wire (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 1/2 in x 34 in x 9 in; 29.21 cm x 86.36 cm x 22.86 cm
- overall: 11 3/4 in x 33 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 29.845 cm x 85.725 cm x 26.035 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0059.01
- accession number
- 2006.0059
- catalog number
- 2006.0059.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fred (Fab 5 Freddy) Brathwaite
- subject
- Hip-Hop
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
- Electronic Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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