Little Louie Vega

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Little Louie Vega

Little Louie Vega at WMC - Miami 2009. DJ set at the Fontainbleu Resort Hotel.
Background information

Luis Fernando Vager (born 1965), better known as "Little" Louie Vega, is a Puerto Rican musician and one half of the Masters At Work musical production team. He was born to a musician family, as his father, Luis Vager, was a jazz saxophonist, and his uncle was singer Hector Lavoe of the Fania All Stars, and he started his DJ career spinning records at the age of 13.

By 1985, he was playing house and block parties in his local Bronx neighborhood of New York, as well as engineering and mixing (Erasure's The Two Ring Circus features his earliest dabblings in the studio. His first nightclub residency was at the Devil’s Nest, in the Bronx, and later he moved to Roseland, Studio 54 and the Palladium in Manhattan. During the 1990s, Vega was playing at one of the most influential nightclubs for house music, The Sound Factory Bar. By the mid-90s, the Masters At Work team had Vega spending less time behind the turntables and more time in the studio as the team's remixing skills became legendary.

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[edit] Personal life

Vega was once married to singer La India. [1] and is now married to vocalist "Anane"

[edit] Discography

See Masters At Work for the rest of his discography

[edit] Singles

[edit] Louie Vega/"Little" Louie Vega

[edit] Sole Fusion

  • 1992 "We Can Make It"
  • 1994 "Bass Tone"
  • 1995 "The Chosen Path", with Kenny Dope
  • 1997 "We Can Make It '97"

[edit] Freestyle Orchestra

[edit] Hardrive/Hardrive 2000

  • 1992 "Sindae", with Kenny Dope
  • 1993 "Deep Inside EP"
  • 1993 "Hardrive EP", with Kenny Dope
  • 1999 "2000 EP"
  • 1999 "Never Forget", with Lynae

[edit] Other aliases

  • 1989 "There's a Bat in my House", as Caped Crusaders, with Todd Terry
  • 1990 "Afrika", as History, with Q-Tee
  • 1994 "Love & Happiness", as River Ocean, with India
  • 1994 "The Tribal EP", as River Ocean, with India
  • 1994 "Curious", as Sun Sun Sun, with Lem Springsteen
  • 1995 "Reach", as Lil Mo Yin Yang, with Erick Morillo
  • 1995 "Freaky", as Lou², with Lil Louis
  • 1996 "The Missile", as The Chameleon
  • 1996 "Shout-n-Out", as Lood, with Mood II Swing

[edit] Production for other artists

[edit] Albums

  • Elements of Life - 2004
  • Elements of Life Extensions - 2005

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  • [2] Louie Vega's Master Work.

[edit] External links

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