Little Louie Vega — House DJ & Producer

Luis Ferdinand Vega Jr., known as Little Louie Vega, is an American DJ of Puerto Rican descent from the Bronx who began spinning records at 13 and was playing house music at Bronx block parties by 1985. His first nightclub residency was at the Bronx venue Devil's Nest, and he went on to hold residencies at Heartthrob in the old Funhouse, Roseland, Studio 54, the Palladium in Manhattan and the Sound Factory Bar, one of the most influential clubs in house music history, as well as playing the Underground Network parties promoted by Don Welch and Barbara Tucker. He is one half of the production and remix team Masters at Work alongside Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, with whom he has spent decades reshaping dance music through remixes and original productions released under names including MAW and KenLou. His DJ sets reflect the deep New York house lineage he came up in, built across a career that moved from block parties and neighborhood clubs to some of Manhattan's most storied dancefloors. Vega's combined DJ and production career places him among the figures most closely tied to the New York house sound as it developed from the 1980s onward.