A Life In Rhythm

When Cevin Fisher stepped behind the decks, standing still was never really an option. As a house music producer and DJ, he knew how to make a room move—and how to make a crowd feel, for a few hours, like one big family.

Born Kevin Fisher in East Orange, New Jersey, he was the youngest of five children born to Wadell and Betty Fisher. Music became his calling early. At 17, he began his first residency at Club Zanzibar, setting out on a path that would carry him from New Jersey dance floors to clubs around the world.

Cevin Fisher became one of house music’s defining voices: a producer, DJ, artist, and storyteller whose greatest instrument was the feeling he set loose on a dance floor. A turning point came when one night, one of his heroes, Danny Tenaglia, urged him to make his own music. On the drive home, he saw a highway sign that read “Find Your Own Road.” He took it to heart, and went to create a sound that was unmistakably his: generous, infectious, and built to bring people together.

His early remixes of Chaka Khan’s “Love You All My Lifetime” and Quincy Jones’ “I’ll Be Good to You” reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart, and set him on a path that would change dance music forever.

Across more than four decades behind the turntables, Cevin Fisher helped shape the sound of house music while staying devoted to the people who made it live. His tracks became house anthems, with the unmistakable sound of “The Freaks Come Out” and “(You Got Me) Burning Up” travelling from club to club, from DJ to DJ and from one generation of dancers to the next.

Away from the booth, friends and family remember Kevin a warm, funny man who loved making people laugh. He brought the same energy to life beyond music: he was a fitness enthusiast and personal trainer, loved basketball, and took up skiing later in life, finding joy in the Jura Mountains near his home in France.

Kevin Fisher died peacefully on Thursday, October 29, 2026, following a brief bout with cancer, just days after his birthday. He is survived by his wife, Theresa; his children, Stephanie, Cindi, Nikko, and Tiffany; his stepsons, Jose and Tomas; his siblings, Ronald, Roslyn, Renee, and Rodney; and many nieces and nephews.

Through every person who carries it with them in their hearts, Cevin Fisher’s music will continue to join strangers in a shared rhythm and go on filling dance floors around the world.

A record can end, but the feeling it leaves behind can last for years, for miles, forever!

His familiar words still sound like an invitation:

“A yo party people, we got to keep this thing going!”

Lovingly submitted by the family