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Born and raised in Manhattans’ Lower East Side, Luis “Phat Kat” Vega's love for music started at a early age. When he was 18, he landed a deal with Tuff City Records producing tracks for a group called Priority One. There at Tuff City, Luis met DJ Mark and 45King. Luis and Mark became good friends and produced together on a few break-beat albums. Mark was also working with Queen Latifah on her critically acclaimed album All Hail The Queen. Luis also produced a song on that album called Latifahs’ Law. As 45King's protégé, Luis also became part of the Flavor Unit producing songs for Lakim Shabazz, Chill Rob G, Latee, as well as two more songs for Queen Latifah's next albums.
Empire Artist Management signed Luis and kept him busy remixing and producing tracks in the US and UK for N'dea Davenport of the Brand New Heavies, Desiree, reggae star Junior Reid, R&B Legend Ben E. King, Mica Parish, The Chimes, Pasadenas, Pauline Henry, Aswad, New Kids On The Block, Was not Was, Gangstarr, Nice and Smooth, Naughty By Nature, Masta Ace, Lisette Melendez, Marky Mark, Gerardo and many other artist.
Luis also landed a publishing deal with Guy Moot, Senior A&R Director for EMI Music Publishing, where Luis co-wrote songs with Simon Law of Soul to Soul, Junior Reid and others. Luis also scored on the film Sugar Hill starring Wesley Snipes, The Ref starring Dennis Leary, and Southie starring Donnie Wahlberg. He also produced 4 songs for an upcoming Yari film called Haven starring Orlando Bloom and Bill Paxton due out in September 2006. Additional production includes Freddie Foxxx, Tony Touch’s The Peace Maker 2, which featured Ice-T, Kurupt from Tha Dogg Pound and J-Ro from Tha Alkaholiks. Luis also got the pleasure to work with legendary producers like Salsa legend Johnny Pacheco and hit maker Devonte from Jodeci, . And the movie Beef, an independent film from QD3 (Quincy Jones III) as well as a cut on the film Players soundtrack which featured Ice-T, Smooth da Hustler and Positive K.
Luis became musical director for the hip hop musical Echo Park that opened at the Apollo Theater in the summer of 2000. Echo Park was a play about the life of DJ Hollywood a legendary old-school DJ narrated by Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Caz.
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