Tyree Cooper

While growing up on the streets of Chicago’s south side, Tyree would often sneak and listen to his mother’s old vinyl dusties. Impassioned by the old R&B soul groups of the 60s, Tyree joined his grammar school band at age 13 and played the flute. His other passion at that time was playing basketball. Both passions followed him to high school where he met Mike Dunn and learned how to DJ. Listening to Farley “Jackmaster Funk”, the Hot Mix 5, Ronny Hardy, and the electrifying energies of Frankie Knuckles, Tyree was well schooled at an early age. Eventually Tyree’s basketball skills awarded him a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Stout where these burgeoning mixing skills were fine tuned. Two years after college Tyree was the hottest DJ in Chicago. Tyree met Vince