Godfather of Techno Soul Eddie Fowlkes

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Get this video and more at MySpace.com The Detroit Historical Museum's exhibit "Techno: Detroit's Gift to the World" celebrated Eddie Fowlkes, along with three cohorts, as an originator of Detroit..s own Techno music. The exhibit captured his more than 25 years of experience in the music industry, stretching back to when he got his first mixer for Christmas in 1977. That mixer led him to understand the power that music could have on people. Inspired by that power through a divine intervention, he made his first hit record, "Goodbye Kiss," released on Metroplex in 1986. His record in turn inspired Derrick May's and Kevin Saunderson's acclaimed first records. He also single-handedly established a new genre of dance music, 'Techno-Soul,' by combining deep, soulful house sounds with the more digital, electronic elements of his own sounds. He has now released over 150 tracks on Sony, BMG, Warner Brothers, Tresor, Azuli, P.I.A.S. London to name a few majors and independents. Eddie has remixed The Pet Shop Boys, Moby, Martha Wash, and Juan Atkins as well as countless European artists. Now Eddie's focus is on his own label of pure Techno Soul baby, City Boy Music.