Break Machine was an American rap act, fronted by Keith Rodgers and produced by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, the team behind the Village People.
Keith Rodgers was a musician and presenter of a rap radio show on the New York station WHBI 105.9.
This brought him to the attention of Morali and Belolo, the French producers, who were looking for new styles after the decline of disco.
In 1983, together with Fred Zarr, they released "Street Dance", which was an international hit and one of the earliest mainstream breakthroughs for hip hop.
In France, the song reached #1 for two weeks, selling over a million copies and becoming the 86th best-selling single of all time according to a list released in 2004 by the Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique[4] Subsequent singles "Break Dance Party" and "Are You Ready?"