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Erick Morillo, the DJ known for the nineties-era smash “I Like To Move It,” was found dead Tuesday in Miami Beach. He was 49 years old.
Police responded to a 911 call Tuesday morning, a spokesperson told AFP, who said detectives did not observe “apparent signs of foul play.”
Morillo died just days before he was due in court for a sexual battery charge.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death, police said.
Born in 1971 in New York and raised between Colombia and New Jersey, Morillo became known under the pseudonym Reel 2 Real and dropped the hit “I Like to Move It” in 1993.
The song was a collaboration with the Trinidadian singer The Mad Stuntman — born Mark Quashie — and became an iconic Eurodance song with ragga vocals, a subgenre of dancehall and reggae.