# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erick-morillo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:52:59.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erick-morillo"
name: "Erick Morillo"
slug: "erick-morillo"
description: "Erick Morillo was a Colombian-American disc jockey, music producer, and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers de la Funk, the Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate, and Li'l Mo Ying Yang, Morillo was best known for his international work in house music, in particular for the label Strictly Rhythm, and the 1993 hit \"I Like to Move It\", which he produced under the pseudonym Reel 2 Real, and which was featured in commercials, movies, and ringtones. His label Subliminal Records produced the number-one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit \"Fun\" by Da Mob, and won the Muzik magazine \"Remixer of the Year\" award in 1999. Subliminal also brought attention to artists like Eddie Thoneick, Carl Kennedy, and DJ DLG. He was a three-time winner of DJ Awards \"Best House DJ\" in 1998, 2001, and 2003 and a three-time winner of \"Best International DJ\" in 2002, 2006, and 2009 receiving a total of 15 nominations in all from 1998 to 2010."
tagline: "American DJ, music producer, and record label owner (1971–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/10.11.12ErickMorilloByLuigiNovi1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1971-03-26"
deathDate: "2020-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           67.74
  momentum:             0.934782608695652
  historical:           17.92262133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 39900
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ErickMorilloOfficial"
    handle:    "ErickMorilloOfficial"
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    handle:    "erickmorillo"
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    handle:    "ErickMorillo"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1933315"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "@erickmorillovideo"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Erick Morillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Erick Morillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Erick Morillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Морилло, Эрик"
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    title: "Erick Morillo"
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    title: "Erick Morillo"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump