{"id":50695,"date":"2026-11-11T02:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/carl-cox-has-been-awarded-an-obe\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T02:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:34:53","slug":"carl-cox-has-been-awarded-an-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/carl-cox-has-been-awarded-an-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Cox has been awarded an OBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/mixmag.net\/read\/carl-cox-featured-score-new-adaptation-george-orwell-animal-farm-news\">Carl Cox<\/a> was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) today (November 10) at Windsor Castle, a royal residence in Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p>The British DJ picked up the prestigious honour from Prince William for his outstanding contribution to music, marking almost 50 years since he began DJing.<\/p>\n<p>Cox flew from the US back to the UK to receive the honour, per a press release, and attended his investiture in the King\u2019s Birthday Honours. He was joined by his girlfriend and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Read this next: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/mixmag.net\/read\/carl-cox-honoured-large-scale-mural-cardiff-the-prodigy-news\">Carl Cox honoured with mural in Cardiff ahead of The Prodigy tour leg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an incredible day I\u2019ll never forget,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019m very proud and I know my mum and dad would be very proud of me too. I\u2019m really happy to accept this.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve been doing this for many years and hope to continue for many more \u2013 sharing my love of music. I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled and deeply honoured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The award honours his significant contribution to music over the years, praising his long-running and tireless excellence in the UK dance music community and advocacy of club culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/mixmag.net\/read\/carl-cox-has-been-awarded-an-obe-news\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Cox was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) today (November 10) at Windsor Castle, a royal residence in Berkshire. The British DJ picked up the prestigious honour from Prince William for his outstanding contribution to music, marking almost 50 years since he began DJing. Cox flew from the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-50695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djzone","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}