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Miami Beach City Police (United States) found the famous Colombian-American DJ Erick Morillo, 49, dead in his home.
The discovery occurred on the morning of this Tuesday, September 1, after a call made to the emergency services (911) at 10:42 am, local time (9:42 am, in Colombia).
“The call was made from the artist’s home, on La Gorce Drive (…) The circumstances surrounding his death are not clear,” said Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodríguez.
The Univision network, for its part, reported that no “signs of murder or violence” were recorded at the scene. and that the Miami Dade County coroner’s office will be in charge of determining the causes of death.
Morillo’s death comes almost a month after he was arrested for a sexual assault case with which he is accused.
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The DJ and producer became world famous in 1993, thanks to the song ‘I like to move it’, which has Latin house influences mixed with reggae vocals and is performed by Trinidad and Tobago native rapper Mark Quashie.
‘I like to move it’ gained relevance again in the 2000s thanks to the animated saga ‘Madagascar’: was part of the soundtrack of the movies.
Song that made him famous.
Judicial mess
On August 6, Morillo was arrested and charged with sexual assault against a woman.
The events, local media reported at the time, occurred in December 2019, at the DJ’s home.
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According to the victim, the man tried “to make various advances, some of a sexual nature,” but she refused.
How she felt drunk, She looked for a room to rest and the next day she woke up naked and with Morillo by her side, also naked.
He denied the accusations, but “the results of a rape kit tested positive for his DNA and he handed himself in, in the company of his and his lawyer,” said the ‘WPLG Local 10’ media, affiliated with the ‘ABC’ chain.
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His life
Morillo was born in New York (USA), in March 1971, and He lived in Cartagena for 4 years (from 4 to 10), because his mother was born there.
In ‘la heroica’ he studied at the Comfenalco school and then at the La Popa mixed school, where he made his first communion.
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On social media, his fans described him as one of the “greats” of the House genre. Between 2018 and 2020, he released a total of 12 productions. The most recent, ‘Afrotech’, was a collaboration with American artist Antranig.
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