Influential Chicago house music DJ Paul Johnson has died at the age of 50 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports, Johnson, who had a global hit with Get Get Down in 1999 and was named as an influence by Daft Punk, had spent several weeks in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had been hospitalized for COVID-19 in mid-July, according to posts on his Instagram, although an official cause of death has not been released. Johnson began DJ-ing at parties in the mid-1980s and started producing his own music in the early \u201990s, with his first release coming out in 1992. By 1997, Johnson had founded the record label Dust Traxx. That same year, his influence on house was also immortalized when Daft Punk listed him as the first name on their Homework track \u201cTeachers,\u201d which paid tribute to the group\u2019s inspirations. But Johnson\u2019s biggest success came years later, in 1999: the hypnotic hit \u201cGet Get Down,\u201d which reached No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Hot Dance Club Play chart and was successful in Europe as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnson was also prominent as an electronic music figure with disabilities, after an accidental shooting at a 1987 party paralyzed him; in 2003, he had one of his legs amputated due to the condition, while the other was amputated in 2010 after a car accident. Still, Johnson was an active figure in house music through 2021, most recently posting a clip of him performing to his Instagram on July 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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