THE GLOBAL DANCE PARTY

The early house music movement in New York City, he became an artist, producer, and remixer credited with establishing the tribal/jungle sound on the local NYC garage house music scene in the late 1980s. In time, he met and collaborated with Trinidadian producer Winston Jones, known as the godfather of tribal music where together, they created Cultural Vibe. Cultural Vibe became known for their powerful, Afrocentric messages about love, healing, and positivity. In 1986, their first single, Mind-games, became a crossover success and received national airplay along with some of the top 40 soul records of the time. With additional singles Ma Foom Bey and Power coming out and getting airplay the same year, the group then toured and performed extensively in the United States and Europe, opening for such artists as Grace Jones, Chaka Khan, James D Train Williams, Heavy D and The Boys, Bobby Brown, Bobby Womack, and Gwen Guthrie among others in venues including The Paradise Garage, Zanzibar, and Ministry of Sound