MUSIC-NEWS
Louie Vega is a key figure in the New York house music since the ’80s
Vega’s story reads like dance music myth: born in the Bronx to a musical Puerto Rican family that included his uncle, salsa legend Héctor Lavoe, Vega entered the club scene as a teenager and was soon spinning at institutions like Studio 54, where he helped pioneered the house genre and crossed it with disco, funk and Latin influences. In the early ’90s, Vega linked with Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez to form the legendary duo Masters At Work; his solo work has also garnered six Grammy nominations, and one win in 2008 for his remix of Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly.”
All the while, Vega has kept an ambitious tour schedule and consistent string of singles and albums, the latest of which is Expansions In The NYC. Out this past Friday (Apr. 29) on Nervous Records, the two-and-a-half hour, 22-track album plays like an extended jam session that you’d be lucky to catch happening afterhours at the club.
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