This boombox was made by Sharp Electronics, circa 1985. It is a portable music system, model HK-9000, and with its dual tape decks, detachable speakers, built-in equalizer, AM/FM radio, and 2-fader microphone mixing, it was one of the largest boomboxes of the era.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.”
Boombox, used by Fab 5 Freddy
- Description
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.
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.”
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Sharp
- date made
- ca 1985
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fred (Fab 5 Freddy) Brathwaite
- 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
- Object Name
- boombox
