{"id":3039,"date":"2014-06-01T03:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2014-06-12T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T03:03:13","slug":"the-top-10-reasons-why-maurice-joshua-is-my-dance-music-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/the-top-10-reasons-why-maurice-joshua-is-my-dance-music-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY MAURICE JOSHUA IS MY DANCE MUSIC HERO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaruiceJoshua&AJ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY MAURICE JOSHUA<\/a> IS MY DANCE MUSIC HERO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. \u00a0He was born and raised in the birthplace of house music-Chicago.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

9. \u00a0His remixes are built from the ground-up,contains live instruments and re-cut vocals. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

8. \u00a0He has remixed pop\/R&B\/gospel royalties from Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Chris Brown to Yolanda Adams.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

7. \u00a0He made Britney Spears sound soulful.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

6. \u00a0He has remixed most of Destiny’s Child’s entire catalog.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Beyonce is to Maurice Joshua as Mariah Carey is to David Morales.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Listen to Mary Mary’s “Shackles (Praise You)” (Maurice’s Carnival 2000 Mix).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

3. \u00a0He is just a life-loving fun guy to be around.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. He crafted the classic “This Is Acid.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0He won a 2004 GRAMMY award for his remix of Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Words by AJ Dance\/Visual by Michelle Dawes Birt for Real Chicks Rock<\/p>\n

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THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY MAURICE JOSHUA IS MY DANCE MUSIC HERO! 10. \u00a0He was born and raised in the birthplace of house music-Chicago. 9. \u00a0His remixes are built from the ground-up,contains live instruments and re-cut vocals. \u00a0 8. \u00a0He has remixed pop\/R&B\/gospel royalties from Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Chris Brown to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,8,7,208],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-deep-house-music","tag-house-music","tag-maurice-joshua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDhj-N1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2461,"url":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/chicago-move-22-23-07-06\/","url_meta":{"origin":3039,"position":0},"title":"CHICAGO MOVE! 22-23.07.06","author":"ajdance","date":"July 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Events"","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CHICAGOMOVETIX-580x505.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CHICAGOMOVETIX-580x505.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CHICAGOMOVETIX-580x505.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3745,"url":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/celebrating-kim-english\/","url_meta":{"origin":3039,"position":1},"title":"CELEBRATING KIM ENGLISH","author":"ajdance","date":"April 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"MISSING YOU Whatever happened to Kim English? 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