Been startin' the new year with some old school & new school Latin Freestyle.currently:George Lamond - Without You '98linkfavs are:-BK Dano's Raise The Roof Mix -Valentin's Bass Mix -J.J.'s Smooth Mix
Yeah I grew up on freestyle as well... SaFire, TKA, The Cover Girls, Noel, George Lamond, Brenda K. Starr, Tony Moran, Coro, Seduction, Cynthia, Johnny O, Corina, Nyasia, Lil Suzy, Collage, Miguel Reyes, Laura Enea, and so on.
Heck yeah. What's funny is that, as a kid, I had no idea that there was a name for this genre (sub-genre). It was just "dance music" to me, and when I was older, and anyone would mention "freestyle" I never knew what they were referring to until they started spouting off songs.
Quote from: esteban on January 05, 2014, 03:11:23 AMHeck yeah. What's funny is that, as a kid, I had no idea that there was a name for this genre (sub-genre). It was just "dance music" to me, and when I was older, and anyone would mention "freestyle" I never knew what they were referring to until they started spouting off songs. Same here. It wasn't until around 1998 that I started learning about what this music was. It also used to be called Latin Hip-Hop and Heartthrob, but mainly, back in the day it was just called dance club music. Was pretty sad how freestyle 'died' after the early 90s, meaning it was no longer getting much air play on major FM radio stations. However freestyle has always been kept alive by most of the 'core' artists as well as new artists, and of course, by freestyle fans who grew up, loved, and lived that music. With the internet booming in the late 90s, new freestyle songs got released from the well known artists as well as from ones that started up in the 2000s like Sharyn Maceren on the west coast. There have been many new tracks over the years that only get released online, some on iTunes. Other new tracks get released in freestyle compilations.On another note, a few years ago Noel was reunited with his twin daughters after 7 years of not being allowed to see them. Noel's daughters were secretly flown in by his long time producer and friend for a major birthday surprise at the 25th Anniversary of Freestyle. During Noel's performance they switched his backup dancers with his two daughters. Once he realized the dancers were his daughters, well, it was very emotional for Noel, to say the least, as one might imagine. The whole time the audience had been reading what was going on and kept it a secret, too. Amazing! This video is just so awesome to watch:
