DJ Deeon, star of Chicago house music scene, dies aged 56

DJ Deeon, house music DJ and producer, who has died aged 56. Photograph: PR

DJ Deeon, the dance music pioneer whose exuberant productions helped popularise Chicago’s “ghetto house” style, has died aged 56.

An administrator for his Facebook page announced the news, confirmed by his press representative, who said Deeon had been “battling with on going health problems and heart complications. He passed peacefully in hospital with his family around him.”