For full details of Wiz’s appearance at the museum on 2/2/2010, go to CITY

For the full article, go to City Limits

For more of SASTER’s coverage of the It’s Just Begun Book launch party, go to Streets Are Saying Things

To read the entire interview, go to Ohio hiphop awards

To see the full article, go to page 147 on Empty Belly Magazine

To RSVP for this event, go to El Museo

Read the review at, working DJ

Check out the full article in the NY Daily News

 THE BRONX MUSEUM TO HOLD BOOK SIGNING FOR

HIP HOP’S FIRST LATINO DJ 

“It’s Just Begun” Chronicles the Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AT 6 PM

WHAT:            

Join The Bronx Museum of the Arts for “Bronx Talks,” a new monthly series featuring Bronx–based writers and/or books about the Bronx. This premier event will feature the legendary DJ Disco Wiz who will be signing his memoir It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop’s First Latino DJ.

WHO:           

Half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican, Luis “DJ Disco Wiz” Cedeño is 100 percent Boogie Down Bronx. Born in the 1960s, Wiz struggled in a turbulent and violent relationship with his alcoholic father while trying to protect his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. In the 70s, Wiz learned the code of the streets while hustling with his crew, the East Side Boys and in 1975, discovered salvation when he hooked up with the legendary Grandmaster Caz to form the Mighty Force Crew, waging some of the biggest DJ battles in the Bronx during hip hop’s earliest years.

But the streets wouldn’t leave him in peace. After being convicted on an attempted murder charge, sentenced to nine years in prison, and forced to leave his baby daughter, Wiz was incarcerated upstate at the tender age of 17, where he learned the true meaning of desperation. But as time went on and he overcame his struggles with violence, drugs and alcohol, and women, Wiz eventually liberated himself from the path of self-destruction through love, self-respect, and self-determination.

Featuring over 50 never-before-seen photos, It’s Just Begun is a gritty and gripping tale of one man’s struggle to not only survive, but to triumph over adversity and abuse that will make your blood run cold.

 Admission is free. For more information, please visit www.bronxmuseum.org

WHERE:            

THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS

1040 Grand Concourse (at 165^th Street)

North Wing Entrance

To see the review go to AllHipHop