Marshall Jefferson

American DJ and record producer

Person Human Q1351604

Facts

16 properties

Instance of: human
Sex or gender: male^[10]
Date of birth: September 19, 1959
Place of birth: Chicago
Country of citizenship: United States^[8]
Occupation: club DJ, disc jockey, record producer, composer, musician
Genre: house music^[11]
Birth name: Marshall Julius Jefferson^[16]
Family name: Jefferson^[13]
Given name: Marshall (nome)^[14]
Member of: Ten City^[9]
Name in native language: Marshall Jefferson^[17]
Pseudonym: Father of House Music^[15]
Record label: Trax Records^[12]
Social media followers: 9.4k (6.0k–9.4k, n=3)^[19]^[20]^[21]
Start of work period: 1986^[18]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 35

ISNI: 0000000103672396
VIAF cluster ID: 12499899
Library of Congress Authorities ID: no98052750
GND ID: 134573145
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Marshall-jefferson-cropped-2013.jpg ↗
AllMusic artist ID: mn0000299893, mn0001494023
Apple Music artist ID: 14132268
BBC Things ID: 199eed11-fc90-43b0-a08a-080057212bfb
Bandsintown artist ID: 34667
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 139801858
Carnegie Hall agent ID: 129519
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID: 134573145

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Discogs artist ID: 1104, 1946
Europeana entity: agent/base/151507
Facebook username: marshall.jefferson, marshalljeffersonofficialfanpage
Freebase ID: /m/01t930m
Jaxsta profile ID: c59cb09e-6976-4783-9fb3-b5b35f00997b
Last.fm ID: Marshall+Jefferson
MusicBrainz artist ID: 93938558-9a84-4a7f-a15c-6f145100ff5c, d5e52d8c-c227-4387-9f86-100ab5432fc8, c7eaea5b-9ebf-4de7-893f-569f56eca993
Muziekweb performer ID: M00000063489
Myspace ID: housemusicgodfather
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX5152236
Offizielle Deutsche Charts person ID: 2123
Oxford Reference overview ID: 20110803100018913
Pitchfork artist ID: 17727-marshall-jefferson
Prabook ID: 2273532
Rate Your Music artist ID: marshall_jefferson, hercules_f2
Rock's Backpages artist ID: marshall-jefferson
Setlist.fm artist ID: 4bd6fb86
Shazam artist ID: 14132268
Songkick artist ID: 561175, 270260
Spotify artist ID: 2Di8r9df6xjyj6CVOqbGVz
WhoSampled artist ID: Marshall-Jefferson
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJrgCTDqg77YTwMRpMFVG3
X (Twitter) username: MarshallJeffers

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🔗 Connections

Occupation 2

disc jockey, record producer

Compositions 1

It's Alright

Country of citizenship 1

United States

Family name 1

Jefferson

Genre 1

house music

Instance of 1

human

Place of birth 1

Chicago

Record label 1

Trax Records

Sex or gender 1

male

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Summary

Marshall Jefferson was born on September 19, 1959^[1], in Chicago^[2]. He has worked as a club DJ^[3], disc jockey^[4], record producer^[5], composer^[6], and musician^[7].

FAQs

Where was Marshall Jefferson born?

Marshall Jefferson was born in Chicago^[2].

What did Marshall Jefferson do for work?

Marshall Jefferson worked as a club DJ^[3], disc jockey^[4], record producer^[5], composer^[6], and musician^[7].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — place of birth (P19): Chicago. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — sex or gender (P21): male. BnF authorities. Retrieved 2015-10-10. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — country of citizenship (P27): United States. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — occupation (P106): club DJ. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — occupation (P106): disc jockey. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — occupation (P106): record producer. Retrieved 2019-05-22. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — occupation (P106): composer. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2026-04-20. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — occupation (P106): musician. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2026-04-20. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — genre (P136): house music. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — record label (P264): Trax Records. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — member of (P463): Ten City. wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — date of birth (P569): September 19, 1959. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — family name (P734): Jefferson. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — given name (P735): Marshall (nome). wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — pseudonym (P742): Father of House Music. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — birth name (P1477): Marshall Julius Jefferson. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — name in native language (P1559): Marshall Jefferson. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — start of work period (P2031): 1986. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — social media followers (P8687): 7465. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — social media followers (P8687): 5985. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Marshall Jefferson — social media followers (P8687): 9414. wikidata.org.

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