TonyVanDam said:

A thread about 1980's freestyle is never complete without mentioning The Cover Girls!

dorianlord said:

That is so cool that you get Expose, SoulAlive. I’m going to the one here in Colorado. I am very excited to see Taylor Dayne, Seduction, and the Cover Girls! Can you believe no one wants to go with me? I’m going to go by myself and still have a great time

I was in high school when freestyle (or Latin hip hop as it was called back then) first became popular and my circle of friends considered the New York City acts to be of better quality than the ones from Miami or other cities. Exposé's first album is a freestyle classic, true, but Sa-Fire, Sweet Sensation, The Cover Girls, etc. were to us more 'real' than Stevie B, Will To Power, Company B and those guys.

NYC's freestyle sound were mostly in minor scales while Miami's freestyle sound were mostly in major scales.

In a ironic twist, it was "Pretty" Tony Bulter from Miami that was responsible for how the dance genre Freestyle got it's namesake. Remember his band, Freestyle?

I wonder why and when they changed it from Latin Hip Hop to Freestyle. As far as I recall, Freestyle back then was just one of many groups known for that kind of music but it seems that somehow, for some reason, that group became so representative of that whole type of music (it´s not really a genre, is it?) that the group became synonymous with that music.

sexton said:

I was in high school when freestyle (or Latin hip hop as it was called back then) first became popular and my circle of friends considered the New York City acts to be of better quality than the ones from Miami or other cities. Exposé's first album is a freestyle classic, true, but Sa-Fire, Sweet Sensation, The Cover Girls, etc. were to us more 'real' than Stevie B, Will To Power, Company B and those guys.

TonyVanDam said:

In a ironic twist, it was "Pretty" Tony Bulter from Miami that was responsible for how the dance genre Freestyle got it's namesake. Remember his band, Freestyle?

Oh, I posted something I hadn´t finished writing last night before I saw your post.

I´m familiar with the band Freestyle, hence my question above. So, why and when did that kind of music become synonymous with that band´s name? Because up until the late 80s it was never called Freestyle music, just Latin Hip Hop, of which the band Freestyle was a part of.

KoolEaze said:

TonyVanDam said:

In a ironic twist, it was "Pretty" Tony Bulter from Miami that was responsible for how the dance genre Freestyle got it's namesake. Remember his band, Freestyle?

Oh, I posted something I hadn´t finished writing last night before I saw your post.

I´m familiar with the band Freestyle, hence my question above. So, why and when did that kind of music become synonymous with that band´s name? Because up until the late 80s it was never called Freestyle music, just Latin Hip Hop, of which the band Freestyle was a part of.

Word of mouth.

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