Before freestyle — the dance music born out of New York’s Latin community in the 1980s — even had a name, an underage Lisa Velez (before she became Lisa Lisa) remembers sneaking into the storied Fun ...

A New York native, Velez was the youngest of ten kids. Her late mother encouraged each of the kids to follow their dreams, and while her three brothers and six sisters all grew up to be teachers and ...

FALL RIVER — The Gates of the City are about to come alive with a unique music festival. Freestyle Madness presents the Decades of Dreams outdoor music festival on Saturday, Sept. 21, with music from ...

Although mum on most participants, Cassidy is proud to have three all-female groups from the era — TLC, En Vogue and SWV — joining a lineup he says will be full of surprises Tuesday night. “I haven’t ...

Though Florida’s contributions to the national musical landscape are thought of too often as just Mickey Mouse boy bands (Backstreet Boys, NSync) or vehicles for douchebags (Creed, Limp Bizkit), there ...

Here are 10 groundbreaking women who challenged tradition and reinvented what it means to be “rock ’n’ roll” in the decade of the 1980s. Think Stevie Nicks, and you think about all those Fleetwood Mac ...