Ian Levine

British DJ, producer & songwriter. Born on June 22, 1953 in Blackpool, Lancashire. Started collecting soul at an early age and started DJing at Blackpool Mecca, a key club in the development of northern soul, where he became resident. Levine was primarily responsible – along with artist 970641 - for guiding the scene away from its oldies-only policy and towards modern soul and disco. Later, as resident at Heaven and producer of hits for artist 87640, Divine and many others, he went on to forge the sound known as hi-NRG. He also produced artist 51262.