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Nick Fiorucci is a Canadian electronic and dance music DJ, songwriter, remixer, producer, and founder of record label Hi-Bias Records, and founder of ZIPDJ, subscription-based digital music pool. Fiorucci has done production and remix work for artists, including Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Celine Dion, Sam Smith, TLC, Eiffel 65, Laura Pausini, ATB and Michelle Branch. In 1999, Nick was the youngest person introduced into the Canadian Dance Music Hall of Fame.

Fiorucci is the acting Chairman of the Juno Award Dance Music committee for Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Education

Fiorucci graduated from Trebas Institute, with an Audio Engineer Diploma in the recording arts and sciences.

Career

Fiorucci began his career as a DJ in the 80s and started his own record labels Big Shot Records in 1988 and Hi-Bias Records in 1990. By the late '90s, he became one of the prominent after mixers and producers of electronic dance music.

Fiorucci was a part of the group called Temperance from mid-1997, after Mark Ryan parted ways with the group, after launching a music production imprint titled 22 Green, he became the songwriter and producer of Temperance.

As a DJ, Fiorucci has appeared in clubs such as Ministry of Sound, and has done opening performances for acts such as New Order, among others. He opened Lobby, a restaurant with Reza Abedi in Toronto.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Awards and recognitions

In 1994, Fiorucci won Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year for Red Light's (Miguel Graça and Robert Ouimet's) song named "Thankful". In November 1998, he received a No. 1 plaque awarded by Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada at The Left Bank in Toronto.

In 2004, as an artist and producer, he won Urban Music Awards in the category "Dance Electronic Recording of The Year" for the song named "Make You Love Me", done together with Carlo Coppola. In 2008, he was nominated for Juno Award for his song "Every Time You Move". In 2018, he won Juno Award for his "Closer ft. Laurell".

See also

• List of electronic musicians

References

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11. "Inside Lobby, the swanky new cocktail lounge on Queen West". TRNTO.com. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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14. Red Light: Thankful at Discogs
15. "SOCAN hands out the hardware". Canadian Musician. 1 March 1999. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
16. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (27 June 1998). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 33. nick fiorucci juno award. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
17. Fierce & Coppola: Make You Love Me at Discogs (list of releases)
18. Canadian Urban Music Awards-Best Dance/Electronica. YouTube. 2 May 2008.
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20. "Dance Recording of the Year 2018". Juno Award. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
21. "EDM Canada sits down with Juno Award winning DJ and Producer Nick Fiorucci to talk about his award winning track 'Closer', his experiences in the forever evolving music industry, and more!". EDM Canada. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
22. "The full list of winners for the 2018 Juno Awards". thestar.com. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
23. "Torontonians score early wins at Juno Awards". toronto.citynews.ca. Retrieved 28 February 2020.

External links

• Personal website
• Nick Fiorucci discography at Discogs

• Living people
• Canadian DJs
• Canadian dance musicians
• Canadian electronic musicians
• Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year winners
• Musicians from Toronto