{"id":13991,"date":"2018-01-28T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/?p=13991"},"modified":"2018-01-28T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:06:07","slug":"output-fifth-anniversary-louie-vega-joaquin-joe-claussell-todd-terry-anane-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/events\/output-fifth-anniversary-louie-vega-joaquin-joe-claussell-todd-terry-anane-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Output Fifth Anniversary – Louie Vega, Joaquin Joe Claussell, Todd Terry, Anan\u00e9 Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Special event on the night of the 2017 Grammys! Louie is up for the award for best Remixer for his production work on one of the House Music anthems of 2017 – Loleatta Holloway \/ Can’t Let You Go. This will be THE ESSENTIAL, GO-TO PARTY in NYC for everyone in the industry and beyond who loves music and nightlife.<\/p>\n

What can we say about LOUIE VEGA….. Grammy Winner, Career Spanning over 35 years and having played the world over more time and to more people than we could ever count….. LOUIE VEGA is a LIVING LEGEND and TRUE to this thing here we call HOUSE and the growth of the music over all!<\/p>\n

A godfather of global dance music, Louie Vega has painted an award-winning career from a palette mixed with everything from salsa and afro-beat, to jazz, hip-hop and soul.<\/p>\n

A godfather of global dance music, Louie Vega has painted an award-winning career from a palette mixed with everything from salsa and afro-beat, to jazz, hip-hop and soul. What distinguishes the Grammy winner and 4-time nominee as one of the best living house music deejays is his ability to evolve alongside the times, distill the current musical landscape through his unique taste and put his own timeless spin on it. \u201cLittle\u201d Louie Vega, as he is sometimes affectionately known, was born in the Bronx into a musically gifted family (his father, a jazz saxophonist, and his uncle, Salsa King H\u00e9ctor Lavoe). The \u201cLittle\u201d moniker is ironic, given the fact that by the 80s he was deejaying at clubs he wasn\u2019t even old enough to attend, holding residencies at Studio 54, Devil\u2019s Nest, Hearthrob, Roseland, and the Palladium. Soon Vega was producing his own remixes, which included Information Society\u2019s \u201cRunning\u201d, Noel\u2019s \u201cSilent Morning\u201d and Debbie Gibson\u2019s \u201cOnly in my Dreams\u201d. Then in 1991 he joined Atlantic Records\u2014and hit the mainstream. Teaming with an-up-and-coming Marc Anthony, he helped to produce \u201cRide on the Rhythm\u201d. An immediate hit, the single put Vega and Anthony on the map. The duo would rock the club circuit, with their success culminating when they opened for Tito Puente at his 100 Album concert at Madison Square Garden.
\nOne of the keys to Vega\u2019s success is his knack for refusing to being boxed into any one category, not only reflected in the various music styles his songs play with, but by his fruitful collaborations with other artists. And so more success came in 1991 from the production team he created with Brooklyn-based deejay Kenny \u201cDope\u201d Gonzalez. Masters at Work, as they were called, were responsible for the critically acclaimed albums \u201cNuyorican Soul\u201d and \u201cMasters At Work \u2013 Our Time is Coming\u201d. Not to mention the duo found the time to remix and or produce for Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Madonna, Jamiroquai, Tito Puente, India, Janet Jackson, Tania Maria, George Benson, Black Eyed Peas, Jocelyn Brown, Los Amigos Invisibles, Bebe Winans, and Earth Wind & Fire.
\nVega has always been hungry for a challenge, and the aughts saw him move into new roles that expanded on his artistry; first up, that of record label owner. Featuring a roster that included Anan\u00e9 Vega, Luisito Quintero, Elements Of Life (his live band), Mr. V, Boddhi Satva, Hugh Masekela, Roberto Roena, Lisa Fischer, and Cindy Mizelle, Vega Records has released over 130 singles and 9 Full Length CD \/ Albums. In addition, Louie Vega has released over 25 compilations (with over 2 million cds sold) on the industry\u2019s most revered imprints, including Ministry of Sound Recordings, Defected Records, Kingstreet, Azuli, Division (Italy), Concept, & Strictly Rhythm records.
\nIn his other venture he joined with world-renowned NYC-based jewelry designer Kenny Hwang to create a signature line of hats, jewelry, t-shirts, and additional memorabilia. As these businesses flourished, so did Vega\u2019s music, and in 2006 he received a Grammy Award for his remix of Curtis Mayfield\u2019s \u201cSuperfly\u201d on Rhino Records. Then, not more than a year later, Cirque Du Soleil approached him and the house-music group Blaze to compose and produce a song for a once in a lifetime event. And so Anan\u00e9 Vega and Elements Of life performed the song \u201cOne Dream\u201d to the acrobatics of Cirque Du Soleil during the 2007 Super Bowl Pre-Game Show to over 70,000 people at Dolphin Stadium in Florida and were seen by 145 million television viewers.
\n\u2026Yet as we move through the twenty-tens, Louie shows no signs of slowing down\u2026
\nThe past four years since April 2010 have brought forth yet another outlet for Vega. Hosted by Vega and Kevin Hedge, the Roots NYC LIVE Radio Show airs on WBLS 107.5 (New York\u2019s longest running R&B and soul radio station). Rated the #3 radio show in New York on Friday night, they air every Friday from 10PM \u2013 Midnight (stream live www.wbls.com). To keep the music flowing on all the continents, Vega can also be heard every Saturday from 5pm \u2013 6pm over IBIZA SONICA on the Sunset Ritual Radio show with Anane Vega in Spain (www.ibizasonica.com), and every Saturday at 10pm via KAYA FM\u2019s Dance Ritual with Louie Vega (www.kayafm.co.za) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ever the music innovator, in 2013 Vega released Elements of Life \u2013 Eclipse on the legendary Fania records. The record, 4 \u00bd years in the making, keeps the style of Vega\u2019s earlier albums (African, Jazz, Latin, World), but injects it with Soul, R&B, Gospel and Blues. Featured artists on the album include Anan\u00e9 Vega, Lisa Fischer, Cindy Mizelle, Ursula Rucker, Josh Milan, Luisito Quintero, Oveus Maximus and an all-star cast of musicians. The occasion was momentous not only because it was the first new artist album Fania had released in years. In Vega\u2019s words, \u201c\u2026[It] really comes full circle now, being able to be on the label my uncle H\u00e9ctor Lavoe was on and the Fania All Stars who are all great inspirations for me. Fania Records is to Latin music what Motown is to R&B and Soul, so to even be a small page in this encyclopedia of music is a dream come true for me.\u201d
\nWith all the good fortune he\u2019s received, Vega finds it crucial to give back. During most of his free time he donates Vega Memorabilia to auctions, deejays at fundraisers and serves as a good will ambassador for the Christian Rivera Foundation. Currently, Vega and Anan\u00e9 are headlining their Sunset Ritual brand, an outdoor party held at prestigious beach clubs around the world and drenched in the sounds of House, Global Disco, Afro tech and Old School. Sunset Ritual has toured the Mediterranean every summer since 2010, including a two-year residency at the Blue Marlin beach club in Ibiza. Just this past year, from the 21st of June until the 20th of September 2013, the Sunset Ritual\u2019s good vibes were back in Ibiza, this time at the famed Ushua\u00efa Hotel. This May 2014, Anan\u00e9 and Louie will release the first Sunset Ritual cd\/dvd. Then in the summer Sunset Ritual will resume across beaches of Ibiza, Formentera, Italy, and Greece. In 2014, Masters At Work will reunite with a full blown project and Anthology on the House Masters Defected Release #21. Louie Vega & Kenny Dope will once again come together to create music and do what they do best, produce and make you dance!Breaking down musical barriers and bringing people together through a love of music has always been Vega\u2019s aim; after more than 20 years in the game his contributions continue to positively influence the global house and world music.
\nListen closely as the best has yet to come from Louie Vega!<\/p>\n

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