# Artists | House Music Blends Museum

Public page: HMB SITE MUSEUM/artists.html

The Artists page is a growing archive of DJs, producers, and creative figures connected to house music history.

## Page Purpose

These first artist entries come from the Museum foundation data and keep verification status visible while the archive expands with stronger source-backed biographies.

## Foundation Artist Entries

## Frankie Knuckles

Verification status: verified

Central architect of Chicago house as DJ, producer, remixer, and scene anchor.

Archive note: Full biography, club links, record links, and source notes are queued for expansion.

## Ron Hardy

Verification status: verified

Music Box resident whose fearless programming shaped the raw edge of the Chicago sound.

Archive note: Full biography, club links, record links, and source notes are queued for expansion.

## Jesse Saunders

Verification status: verified

Early Chicago producer and DJ linked to one of the foundational records in the archive.

Archive note: Full biography, label links, record links, and source notes are queued for expansion.

## Marshall Jefferson

Verification status: review

Foundational producer already in scope for the Chicago core, awaiting fuller entity population.

Archive note: This entry stays in review until a fuller source-backed artist page is built.

## Larry Heard

Verification status: review

Essential deep-house figure preserved in the shell and queued for full source-backed entry work.

Archive note: This entry stays in review until a fuller source-backed artist page is built.

## Search And Reading Note

This markdown mirror gives search engines and reading systems a clean text version of the House Music Blends Museum Artists page while the main website keeps its full visual design, navigation, archive sections, and visitor tracking behavior.