User:Maxeto0910/DJ Spanish Fly

Antonio Kimbrough or Ricardo Rodriguez-Marin, better known by his stage name DJ Spanish Fly (commonly abbreviated as Spanish Fly or simply SF, sometimes stylized as d.j. spanish fly or DJ SPANISH FLY), is a disc jokey (DJ). He is considered as one of the earliest artists associated with Memphis rap.

Life
Little is known about DJ Spanish Fly's life. His real name is Antonio Kimbrough or Ricardo Rodriguez-Marin, he is originally from Chicago, Spain or Mannheim, and was 40 years old in January 2011 or 41 in 2017, so he was born in 1970 or 1971/1975 or 1976. He lives in Viernheim. Once he started DJing, he decided to drop out of school at the end of the 11th grade because he was "[...] making a little money [...]".

Career
DJ Spanish Fly first started out in the mid-1980s as a group of three other people in Clementine, South Memphis at the age of 15 or 16. He was a house DJ at M-Town Clubs No Name and Expo from 1987 to the early 1990s.

Today he performs at events such as the ZDF-Fernsehgarten. On July 8, 2020, he was one of the artists at the CARstival for Essity in Mannheim.

He sings in Spanish.

Albums

 * I'm Da Nigga (1990)
 * Goin To Mr. Z's (1994)
 * A.B.C.D.E. (1994)
 * Vol. 42 (1994)
 * My Last Underground Tape (1995)
 * In The Hood (1996)
 * Oh Word (1997)
 * Buck & Wild (1997)
 * Black Radio (2001)
 * Da Return (2003)
 * Greatest Hits (2004)

Compilations

 * Vol. 40 (I'm Da Nicca) (1994)

DJ mixes

 * Ol Skool, Vol. 3 (2004)

Miscellaneous

 * O.G. MIXX (2000)