"Louie" is the first single from Blood Raw's debut album My Life: The True Testimony, and features labelmate Young Jeezy. The song peaked at number 69 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.^[1] In the single, he talks about Louis Vuitton.

Charts[link]

References[link]

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Louie may refer to:

• Louie (TV series)
• "Louie" (song), by Blood Raw
• "Brother Louie" (Hot Chocolate song), by Hot Chocolate
• "Brother Louie" (Modern Talking song), by Modern Talking
• Louie the Bear, the St. Louis Blues mascot
• Louie the Laker, the Grand Valley State University mascot
• Louie the Lumberjack, the Northern Arizona University mascot
• King Louie, a Jungle Book character
• Louie Bellson (1924–2009), Italian-American jazz drummer
• Louie Spence (born 1969), British dancer

Surname[link]

• Louie (surname), a Taishanese variation of the Chinese surname Lei (雷)
• Alexina Louie (born 1949), Canadian composer

See also[link]

• Louis (disambiguation)
• Luis (disambiguation)
• Louise (disambiguation)
• Louie Louie

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Three singers-a trio-singing a song while accompanied on a lute played by one of the singers. Das Konzert [The Concert] (c. 1490, Lorenzo Costa).

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose.

A song may be for a solo singer, a duet, trio, or larger ensemble involving more voices. Songs with more than one voice to a part are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms, depending on the criteria used. One division is between "art songs", "pop songs", and "folk songs". Other common methods of classification are by purpose (sacred vs secular), by style (dance, ballad, Lied, etc.), or by time of origin (Renaissance, Contemporary, etc.).

A song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice or voices or, "the act or art of singing," but the term is generally not used for large vocal forms including opera and oratorio.^[1] However, the term is, "often found in various figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a sonata...)."^[1] The noun "song" has the same etymological root as the verb "to sing" and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word to mean "that which is sung" or "a musical composition suggestive of song." The OED also defines the word to mean "a poem" or "the musical phrases uttered by some birds, whales, and insects, typically forming a recognizable and repeated sequence and used chiefly for territorial defence or for attracting mates." ^[2]

Cultural types[link]

Art songs[link]

Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, usually with piano accompaniment, although they can also have other types of accompaniment such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are always notated. Generally they have an identified author and composer and require voice training for acceptable performance. German-speaking communities use the term art song ("Kunstlied") to distinguish so-called "serious" compositions from folk song ("Volkslied"). The lyrics are often written by a poet or lyricist and the music separately by a composer. Art songs may be more formally complicated than popular or folk songs, though many early Lieder by the likes of Franz Schubert are in simple strophic form. They are often important to national identity.

Art songs feature in many European cultures, including but not limited to: Russian (romancy), German (Lieder), Italian (canzoni), French (mélodies), Scandinavian (sånger), Portuguese (canções), Spanish (canciones). There are also highly regarded British and American art songs in the English language. Cultures outside of Europe that have a classical music tradition, such as India, may or may not feature art songs. The accompaniment of European art songs is considered as an important part of the composition.

The art song of the period in which they originally flowered is often a duet in which the vocalist and accompanist share in interpretive importance. The pieces were most often written to be performed in a home or salon setting, although today the works enjoy popularity as concert pieces. The emergence of poetry during this era was much of what inspired the creation of these pieces by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert and other composers. These composers set poems in their native language. Many works were inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. Another method would be to write new music for each stanza to create a unique form; this was through-composed form known in German as durchkomponiert. A combination of both of these techniques in a single setting was called a modified strophic form. Often romantic art songs sharing similar elements were grouped as a song cycle.^[3]

Folk songs[link]

Folk songs are songs of often anonymous origin (or are public domain) that are transmitted orally. They are frequently a major aspect of national or cultural identity. Art songs often approach the status of folk songs when people forget who the author was. Folk songs are also frequently transmitted non-orally (that is, as sheet music), especially in the modern era. Folk songs exist in almost every culture.

Popular songs[link]

Modern popular songs are typically distributed as recordings and are played on the radio, though all other mass media that have audio capabilities are involved. Their relative popularity is inferred from commercially significant sales of recordings, ratings of stations and networks that play them, and ticket sales for concerts by the recording artists. A popular song can become a modern folk song when members of the public who learn to sing it from the recorded version teach their version to others. Popular songs may be called pop songs for short, although pop songs or pop music may instead be considered a more commercially popular genre of popular music as a whole.

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Song

• Air (music)
• Animal song: bird song, whale song, zoomusicology
• Aria
• Ballad
• Canticle
• Category:Musical forms
• Hymn
• Instrumental
• Lied
• Madrigal (music)
• Song structure (popular music)
• Vocal music
• Theme song
• Poem and song
• Singing

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Marcello Sorce Keller (1984), "The Problem of Classification in Folksong Research: a Short History", Folklore, XCV, no. 1, 100- 104.

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Little Louie Vega
Little Louie Vega at WMC - Miami 2009. DJ set at the Fontainbleu Resort Hotel.
Background information
Birth name	Luis Fernando Vager
Born	(1965-06-12) June 12, 1965 (age 47) The Bronx, New York, United States
Genres	Latin, House, Club

Luis Fernando Vager (born June 12, 1965), better known as "Little" Louie Vega, is an American musician of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is one half of the Masters At Work musical production team.^[1] He was born to a musician family, as his father, Luis Vager, was a jazz saxophonist, and his uncle was singer Héctor Lavoe of the Fania All-Stars, and he started his DJ career spinning records at the age of 13.^[2]

By 1985, Louie who is cousin to Eric Vega, popular event creator and promoter in New York City began 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 1990s, the Masters At Work team had Vega spending less time behind the turntables and more time in the studio as part of the team's remixers.

Personal life[link]

Vega was once married to singer La India.^[3] He is presently married to vocalist Anané.

Discography[link]

See Masters At Work for the rest of his discography

Singles[link]

Louie Vega/"Little" Louie Vega[link]

• 1998 "Te Quiero"
• 1990 "House Of Vega"
• 1991 "Ride On The Rhythm", with Marc Anthony
• 1996 "Hip Hop Jazz EP", with Jeffrey Collins
• 2000 "Elements of Life", with Blaze
• 2000 "Life Goes On", with Arnold Jarvis
• 2002 "Diamond Life", with Jay 'Sinister' Sealee and Julie McKnight
• 2002 "Brand New Day", with Blaze
• 2003 "Cerca De Mi", with Raul Midon and Albert Menendez
• 2003 "Africa/Brasil"
• 2004 "Thousand Fingered Man"
• 2004 "Mozalounge", with Anané, Raul Midon and Albert Menendez
• 2004 "Journey's Prelude", with Ursula Rucker
• 2004 "Love is on the Way", with Blaze
• 2004 "Steel Congo", with House of Rhumba
• 2005 "V Gets Jazzy", with Mr. V
• 2006 "Joshua's Arm", with Blaze
• 2007 "Here To Stay", with Soni

Sole Fusion[link]

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

Freestyle Orchestra[link]

• 1989 "Don't Tell Me", with Todd Terry
• 1990 "Keep on Pumpin' it up", with Todd Terry
• 1998 "I Don't Understand This", with Kenny Dope
• 1998 "Odyssey/I'm Ready", with Kenny Dope

Hardrive/Hardrive 2000[link]

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

Other aliases[link]

• 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

Production for other artists[link]

• 1987 Erasure - songs "Victim of Love" (Little louie Vega mix) and "Hideaway" (Little Louie Vega mix) on the remix album The Two Ring Circus
• 1987 The Cover Girls - "Because of You", with Robert Clivilles
• 1988 Noel - "Like a Child", with Roman Ricardo
• 1990 Kimiesha Holmes - "Love me True"
• 1990 2 in a Room - "Take me Away", with Aldo Marin
• 1994 Barbara Tucker - "I Get Lifted"
• 1995 Barbara Tucker - "Stay Together"
• 1998 Donnell Rush - "Perfect Day for Company", with Lem Springsteen
• 2001 Gloria Estefan - "Y-Tu-Conga"
• 2003 Anané - "Nos Vida/Mon Amour"
• 2003 Ursula Rucker - "Release"
• 2004 Kenny Bobien - "Spread Love"
• 2005 Anané - "Amazing Love"
• 2005 Anané - "Let Me Love You", with Mr. V
• 2005 Anané - "Move, Bounce, Shake", with Mr. V
• 2007 Mr. V - "Put Your Drink Down"

Albums[link]

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

See also[link]

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• Masters At Work Records -- official website.
• Louie Vega / The Chameleon / Hardrive / River Ocean / Sole Fusion -- Louis Vega Alias discographies at Discogs.
• 200 Sheep / Caped Crusaders / The EOL Band / Freestyle Orchestra / Kenlou / Lil Mo' Yin Yang / Lood / Lou² / Masters At Work / MAW Presents A Tribute To Fela / Nuyorican Soul / Sun, Sun, Sun / Unreleased Project / Voices -- Louis Vega In Groups discographies at Discogs.
• RBMA Radio On Demand - Train Wreck Mix - Louie Vega (Masters At Work, Vega Records).
• Louie Vega's Master Work