Cevin Fisher, House Producer Behind Two Dance Club No. 1s, Dies at 63

Cevin Fisher, the New Jersey-born house producer whose records twice reached No. 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart, died on Thursday, 29 October 2026, after a short battle with cancer. He was 63. A statement announcing his death was posted on Friday, 30 October, to his official Instagram account, which said he had passed away peacefully.

Fisher was born Kevin Fisher in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1963. He died three days after his 63rd birthday. He began working in dance music at 17, with a residency at Club Zanzibar in New Jersey, and he started making his own tracks on the advice of the DJ Danny Tenaglia.

His best-known work came in the late 1990s. "The Freaks Come Out," released in 1998, and "(You Got Me) Burnin' Up," from 1999, each went to No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart. The Dance Club Songs chart ranks tracks by how often they are played in clubs, so a No. 1 there means a song was being played on dance floors more than any other that week. Together, the two songs spent 25 weeks on the chart.

Fisher also logged four further entries on the chart between 1996 and 2001. His 2001 single "Keep It Coming" reached No. 3. He worked on remixes for other artists as well, including versions of Chaka Khan's "Love You All My Lifetime" and Quincy Jones' "I'll Be Good to You."

Fisher's influence reached a new generation of dance listeners in 2019. David Guetta, working under his Jack Back alias, released a version of "The Freaks Come Out" that featured Fisher.

Fisher also ran his own label, Import Tracks, according to his biography on RA. He lived near the Jura Mountains in France. He is survived by his wife, Theresa.

For many people who spent nights in clubs during those years, his name was attached to the records that filled the room. Those tracks now carry the story of a working musician who started behind a DJ booth in New Jersey and kept making music for more than four decades.