Josh Fawaz is an Australian deep-house and electronic producer who broke through in 2026 with club-built covers of two pop landmarks - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and TLC's "No Scrubs." The first of those reached number one on the iTunes Electronic chart worldwide and edged into the top five of Shazam's Global Electronic chart, which is roughly the moment most people first typed his name into a search bar. The questions they typed next - where he is from, what genre he plays, and whether he is a real person at all - are the reason this profile exists.
How It Started
Fawaz has a paper trail that predates the viral moment. He debuted in 2015 with a track called "Bubble Goose" and spent the years since releasing into the deep-house and U.K.-garage space without troubling the charts. The catalogue is wide rather than deep: singles like "Whips and Chains," "Your Ghost" and "Pressure" sit alongside genre-tagged remakes - a deep-house "Hold You," a tech-house "Dame un grr" - the kind of output that fills DJ crates and streaming playlists without building a public persona. By the time "Like a Prayer" landed in April 2026, he was a decade into a career that almost nobody outside dance-music circles had been following.
The Sound - Pop Standards, Rebuilt for the Floor
The throughline in his recent work is the cover. Fawaz takes a melody the entire room already knows - Madonna, TLC, the 90s-eurodance furniture of "Rhythm Is a Dancer" that keeps surfacing in his search results - and rebuilds it as a deep-house record. It is a formula with a long lineage in club music, and it works because the recognition does half the labour: the hook arrives pre-loaded, and the production decides whether it lands as nostalgia or as a genuinely new groove.
Mood's enrichment files Fawaz under deep house, house and tech house, with a commerciality reading of 0.4 on the platform's scale - modest for an artist sitting on a global iTunes number one. That gap, between the chart commerciality of the songs and the relatively understated production profile of the catalogue, is part of why the dance-music press has been slow to take the project entirely at face value.
The "Like a Prayer" Breakout
"Like a Prayer" is the record that changed the scale. Beyond the iTunes Electronic number one and the Shazam top-five placing, it charted on the national lists in Australia, where it picked up commercial radio support, and in the United Kingdom - his Wikipedia entry logs it at number 72 in Australia and number 68 in the U.K. Those are not stadium numbers, but for a deep-house cover from a producer with no prior chart history, the velocity was unusual enough to draw attention well beyond electronic circles. "No Scrubs," a club-friendly read of the TLC single, followed the same year, and "Too Close" turned up as a 2026 TikTok audio.
Where to Find Josh Fawaz on Mood
For now, the most reliable way to track Fawaz is to follow Josh Fawaz's artist page on Mood, which collects his releases and will surface any live date if one is ever announced. There is nothing on the calendar yet, which makes the page more of a watch-list than a tour guide.
The broader sound he works in is far better represented live. Deep house and house are among the most active genres in Mood's European coverage - the rooms that would naturally book this kind of cover-heavy, melody-forward set are running most weekends. Anyone drawn in by the "Like a Prayer" remix will find the lineage more alive in Amsterdam's weekly house nights than on a streaming profile, in a city where the deep-house sound Fawaz borrows from is a fixture rather than an abstraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Josh Fawaz?
Josh Fawaz is an electronic music producer, usually described as Australian, working in deep house, house and U.K. garage. He has released since 2015 but reached a wider audience in 2026 through club covers of pop hits, most notably Madonna's "Like a Prayer."
Where is Josh Fawaz from?
Most sources describe Fawaz as an Australian-based DJ and producer, and his Mood profile lists him as Australian. At least one streaming-stats profile lists his origin as the United Kingdom, so the public record is not fully consistent on this point.
What is Josh Fawaz's biggest song?
His breakout is a 2026 deep-house cover of Madonna's "Like a Prayer," which reached number one on the iTunes Electronic chart globally and the top five of Shazam's Global Electronic chart, charting in Australia and the U.K. His cover of TLC's "No Scrubs" followed the same year.
Is Josh Fawaz an AI-generated artist?
It is unconfirmed. His rise prompted public speculation - including a Whiskey Riff critic calling him "completely AI," as documented on his Wikipedia page - but no source has verified the project as AI-generated or conclusively disproved it. The absence of any live dates is part of what keeps the question open.
Is Josh Fawaz touring in 2026?
No live dates are currently listed on his Mood profile or elsewhere. You can follow his artist page on Mood to be notified if a concert, festival booking or club date is announced.
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