The Puerto Rican artist was 40 years old.
Part of My Favorite Robot label, Jonny Cruz, the multi versatile DJ and producer was constantly exploring and pushing the boundaries of his craft. A man of many aliases with a wide variety of releases in many genres as well. His music career started at 17 years of age when he became involved with the Puerto Rican drum & bass movement in 1997. In 2007 Jonny started the Identity collective (together with Dstruct, BTK & Korosiv), which went on to release many tracks on numerous highly acclaimed drum & bass labels while touring it extensively in Europe and abroad.
In 2010, Jonny made the move to Berlin, a decision that would forever change the course of his career. He linked up with the acclaimed Cocoon label and released the dancefloor smasher ‘Dawn’s Highway’ in collaboration with his then studio partners Simon Wish & Lati. The track was on heavy rotation by many heavy players in the techno movement and allowed Jonny to cement a place in the German and European club circuits. That same year he teamed up with producer Emerson Todd and made ‘The Kiwi & Coconut Pie’ EP released on Toronto-based Canadian label My Favorite Robot. This then introduced Jonny to Jared Simms, a relationship that would change not only Jonny’s approach to his own music but a friendship that would eventually elevate him to become one of the label’s core artists.
Read some of the tributes to Jonny Cruz below.
