In 2004 he created music for the Hearts Party, at the Uptown Theatre, one of many dance parties created as fundraisers for AIDS research and support services.Īs a music producer and remixer, he was involved in recording music for all six seasons of HBO’s “Sex & the City”. As one of the first resident DJs at Hydrate, he continued to bring new music and his creative house music roots to Halsted Street. In the early 2000s, he assisted in the opening of Hydrate Nightclub, one of the first Halsted Street dance clubs to take the DJ booth out of the “rafters,” and bring the DJ/artists onto the dancefloor. He also worked regularly at such clubs as Berlin, Foxy’s, Spin, Roscoe’s, Manhole Vortex Fusion, and Circuit, and now Hydrate. Through the ’80s and ’90s, he served as one of the headlining DJs for the annual “Pumpkinhead” fundraisers that brought thousands of members of our community together. His first initial recorded release, in 1987, was a collaboration with Xaviera Gold, titled “You Used to Hold Me.” It has become a timeless dancefloor classic. The Hot Mix 5 went on to become one of the leading forces in the early Chicago house music scene and a source for the celebration in the homes and clubs of the LGBT community as well as all over the world.Įventually, Ralphi expanded into music production and remixing. When he first began his career in 1981 as a part of the Hot Mix 5 on WBMX, as the youngest member of the group, he was still in high school.
DJ, music producer, and Grammy nominee, Ralphi Rosario has helped to both reflect and define the community at various times.
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