I'm agreeing with Laura, but I've always been curious about the moments in the spotlight of Black Box (late-80s/early 90s) and Crystal Waters (mid 90s). Crystal Waters is still releasing music and playing out (I believe she lives in Baltimore so I may have a more regionalized perspective on this). Seemed like strange anomolies to me. I'd be very interested to hear about their big-label experiences, even if they were towards the pop end of the house spectrum. However, proof positive of Laura's point would be Daft Punk's success selling 'Homework', when it may as well have fit squarely into the Mid-90s Chicago house cannon IMO. If you ask me, this was just two French dudes making music they loved, while giving credit where it was due (see "Teachers"), and this is definitely *not* what most white musicians have done in their situation. Point being though, that Daft Punk was seen as commercially viable, and countless Chicago house artists were not.
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