Maurice Joshua

Grammy award winner, Maurice Joshua is known across the globe as a brilliant producer, remixer and DJ, which drives house music fans out the wood works to catch his moving sets. Early in his career, the dance floor anthem, “This is Acid” became the catalyst that propelled Maurice onto the global scene. The single reached #1 on both the Billboard’s Dance Club Play Chart and the Dance Sales Chart. In addition to its U.S. chart success, “This is Acid”, which was originally released on Trax Records, was later licensed and released by Vendetta/A&M Records setting the airwaves of Europe ablaze and earmarking a universally strong beginning to Maurice Joshua’s career.
Since then, the Chicago native has earned an extremely high degree of respect from his contemporaries. In the house music realm Maurice is revered as one of the world’s best Producer/Remixer/DJs, as well as one of the original architects of the sound that now dominates dance floors all over the world. Maurice Joshua’s influence on dance music is undeniable. Many will also recall Maurice’s prominent role as one of the members of Chicago’s worldwide famed triumphant trio, I.D. Productions. Along with Steve “Silk” Hurley and Eric “E-Smoove” Miller, Maurice completed the trinity that helped to redefine what a “remix” was. Instead of just extending the length of the song, the track was completely reworked, reproduced and given a whole new form ready to take clubland by storm.
As a solo artist, Maurice Joshua reached greater career heights as the proprietor of Vibe Music & Music Plant. During this time, he produced several massive club anthems such as the #1 Billboard hit “For the Love of You” by Meechie. He also produced some of Kiss FM London’s favorite tunes: “House 101”, “House 102”, “Got a Hold On U” by Chantay Savage, “Good Love, Real Love” by D’Bora, “Just Can’t Get Enough” by Mixx Vibes, and “La La” by Maurice Joshua featuring Liquid Soul to name but a few. For Maurice, timeless hits like these prove that is consistently ahead of his time by producing massive tunes that set the standard for today’s dominating dance genres. These tracks also allow him to constantly expose clubs to his seamless mixing skills—a talent that fills dance floor after dance floor. If you are looking for soulful odysseys, disco filtered dubs, Afro Cuban rhythms, Middle Eastern percussion or even classic disco, hip-hop and reggae, Maurice’s sets deliver that feeling that reminds us why we fell in love with house music. Because of his memorable performances, he has gained worldwide respect as being one of the world’s top DJs by delivering flawless sets at venues like Ministry of Sound
(London), Cream (Liverpool), Sound Factory (NYC), Cocorico (Rimini), and MZA (Tokyo) to name a few.
Maurice has also established his exquisite versatility as an artist by adding songwriting to his roster of talents. In 1996, he struck an EMI Publishing Agreement with VP Jody Gerson. Maurice is one of few artists that can straddle the line of working commercially while staying true to his Chicago house music roots. Most recently, Maurice has written tracks for both Jamie Foxx and Beyoncé new albums and his credits also include writing and producing hits for world renowned artists like Crystal Waters, CeCe Peniston, Byron Stingily, Kim English,Outhere Bros, and RCA recording group Public Announcement. He has even written for McDonald’s commercials.
Maurice has even hit the airwaves hosting his own exclusive mix show for Chicago’s B96 (96.3 FM). His goal was always to educate and entertain his fans by providing them with the freshest and funkiest house/garage and hip-hop/R&B/reggae tunes, long before they were officially promoted to club DJs. While on the air, Maurice was considered to be one of the few U.S. radio DJs with the ability to effortlessly break records into airplay – whether dance or urban –by playing them for his audience of more than two million listeners. Artists and record labels (major