Grammy Award Winner

Louie Vega (MAW, Vega Records)

Carlos Mena (Ocha/Yoruba/Bembe)

Dedan (Brothers and Sisters / Oakland)

Friday, June 18th  9:00pm - 2:00am

CLub 21

2111 Franklin Street, Oakland CA

This is Louie Vega's 1st appearance in Oakland! Let's make him feel welcome as we celebrate his birthday! He will be joined by Carlos Mena and Oakland's own Dedan of Brothers and Sisters fame. 

If you haven't been, Club 21 is a new club also owned by the fabulous folks from the Bench and Bar and the sound is very tasty! Located around the corner from Luka's off of 20th and Grand. 

About Mr. Vega:
Impossible to pigeonhole and irreplaceable to the scene which he has helped build over more than 20 years, Louie Vega is the quintessential music professional. He’s the ‘DJ’s DJ’, that name constantly thanked on an artist’s album copy, the one who has influenced and defined countless other DJ-producers, from today’s brightest stars to those still beat-matching in their bedrooms. In 2008, the Grammy Award-winning DJ, Producer, songwriter, label owner & band leader and tireless champion of House and world music is only getting better; from Latin to Salsa, afro-beat to jazz, hip-hop to classics and all forms of house/dance music the best is yet to come.

The son of accomplished jazz and Latin saxophonist Luis Vega Sr. and the nephew of renowned salsa singer Hector Lavoe of Fania All Stars fame, Louie Vega emerged in the mid 1980s as an up-and-coming DJ playing at Bronx and Manhattan hotspots like the Devil’s Nest, Roseland, Hearthrob, Studio 54 and the Palladium. Vega was soon making a name for himself through production & remixing, quickly releasing over 100 original productions and remixes includingInformation Society’s ‘Running’ & ‘What’s On Your Mind’, Noel’s ‘Silent Morning’, the Cover Girls’ ‘Because Of You’ and Debbie Gibson’s ‘Only In My Dreams’. Linking with New York House pioneer Todd Terry on ‘And The Beat Goes On’ and ‘Give Yourself To Me’, Vega soon met Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez, in doing so beginning one of the most successful partnerships in modern music in the form of Masters At Work.