"Steve Hurley" redirects here. For the singer with Cockney Rebel, see Steve Harley. Steve "Silk" Hurley (born Steven Hurley, 9 November 1962, Chicago, Illinois) is a pioneering house-music producer and club DJ. Career Hurley gained worldwide fame as a DJ on the Saturday Night Live Ain't No Jive Dance Party on WBMX in Chicago in the late 1980s. Hurley's mixing style is different than the usual radio/nightclub DJ who plays house music (such as Tony Humphries on WRKS in the early 1990s), since his style of club mixing incorporates advanced DJ tricks only done by hip hop DJs or turntabilists such as scratching, cutting, drop outs, back spins, and beat juggling. He released songs under the stage name of Steve "Silk" Hurley and, with vocalist Keith Nunnally, had many hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart as J.M. Silk, including "I Can't Turn Around," which hit Number one in 1986. His song "Jack

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