Career
He is best known for his self taught Doctorate.J. style of house music and his 1999 single, "Get Get Down", which became a worldwide hit. He first began DJing in Chicago in 1984 when he was 13, and started working as a producer in 1987, doing tracks for Chicago house labels Dance Mania, Relief, Cajual, Nite Life, Undaground Therapy, Defected, DJax Up Beats, Peacefrog, and Moody. His tune "Get Get Down" became an international house hit, sustaining airplay for several years in clubs and was a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom Singles Chart.
The song reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in December 1999.
His 2004 track, "Follow This Beat", hit #8 on the United States Dance chart. Johnson is unable to walk and DJs in a wheelchair, due to an accidental gunshot in his shoulder on May 17, 1987.
