“To know her was to know that the turntables were simply a conduit, a direct line, from her heart into each of ours,“ wrote Teri Bristol’s family.
The house music community of Chicago mourns one of its own this week. Teri Bristol, a DJ and producer whose career dates back to the genre’s early years, has passed away after a struggle with kidney failure.
Bristol had been admitted into Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to be treated for the ailment on January 3. She had returned home on January 13, where she underwent continued dialysis treatments. On March 28, her friends hosted a…