Steve "Silk" Hurley is an American club DJ, pioneering house-music producer, songwriter, and four time Grammy Award-nominee. Two times as Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical, respectively twice for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. From 1985 to 1988, he scored four Top 10 singles on the US Dance chart, including the number one hit "I Can't Turn Around", all released in collaboration with Keith Nunnally as J.M. Silk. With "Jack Your Body", he topped the UK Singles Chart in January 1987 as a solo artist, while one of his later compositions, "Work it Out" from 1989, brought him his fifth Top 10 record on US Dance. To date, Hurley's last charting single "The Word Is Love", also known as "Silk's Anthem of Life" by The Voices of Life, peaked in 1997 at No. 26 in the UK. 

November 9th, 1962 in Chicago (Age 62)