TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ NICKY SIANO # 078 - PART 1
In 1971, at the tender age of 16, Nicky Siano getst his first DJing gig at The Roundtable in New York City.
In February 1973, he opened The Gallery in Downtown Manhattan with his older brother Joe Siano. New Yorker Magazine called it "one of the five most visually breathtaking nightspots of its time”.
The Gallery was, alongside Macuso's Loft and The Paradise Garage, one of the three most important clubs in New York’s 1970’s underground disco scene.
Both Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles worked there before they both started there DJ careers.
Knuckles had said in other interviews that he and Levan "spent a lot of the time hanging out in the booth, watching Nicky’s every move.
He pretty much taught us what we were doing.”
Nicky in this part shares with us his family life and what happened to him during his adolescent years that changed his life forever.

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