DJ Deeon, Star Of Chicago House Music Scene, Dies Aged 56
Dance music pioneer DJ Dion, whose live productions helped popularize Chicago's ghetto house style, has died aged 56.
The administrator of the Facebook page broke the news, with a spokesperson confirming that Dion was "battling health issues and heart complications." He breathed his last peacefully at the hospital surrounded by his family.
DJ and producer The DJ and producer was born into Chicago's legendary house scene in the mid-1990s with his 1994 debut EP, Funk City. And by adding fun and catchy lyrics to it, it produced many tracks that are now considered part of the house music canon.
The most successful was Freak Like Me, a mainstay of the house set since its release in 1996, but others also considered the genre, including samples from 2B Free Disco and ultra-introverts like House-O-Matic and The Freaks. Classic he calls his escapist and sexual work: "Weird, weird music. Girls embracing music. Music to relieve stress.
A new generation of producers experimented and successfully remixed his work: Freak Like Me got a second life in 2016 with a Lee Walker remix featuring pop artists Katy B and MNE, and Hi-Lo 2B Free became a tech hit in 2022. And that same year, Boyd added vocals to another popular track, Dance System Work It. Daft Punk cites Boyd as an inspiration on the song "Teacher".
In 2020, he launched a crowdfunding initiative to pay his medical bills, explaining his chronic health problems: “Quadruple heart bypass surgery in my youth due to poor health education, then cancer and chemotherapy, and finally my leg. . I cried like a baby. But I kept fighting, I refused the wheelchair, so they gave me a prosthesis, which I use every day. He also suffered from diabetes and, as of 2018, had "several micro-strokes in 12 months".
His health problems continued - in June 2022 he wrote on Instagram: "In the hospital, amputation, pneumonia, now in intensive care with a heart infection" - but his creativity did not change, and most recently, on May 27, a new movie was released. . music
Over the weekend, she posted a photo from her hospital bed on Instagram, asking her followers to "pray for me."
Tributes have been posted online, including from Chicago scene DJ Slugo, who wrote: “Over 30 years and many memories...you will be missed but you will never be forgotten.
