This solid-gold lineup is a true Mt. Olympus of freestyle Credit: Photo courtesy Lisa Lisa/Facebook
For the sake of both music and history, be grateful that Orlando has remained one of the cities keeping the flame alive for Latin Freestyle over the years.

One of the best, most direct musical pipelines between NYC and Miami, this dance-pop genre infused Latin flavor into the mainstream a full decade before Ricky Martin, J.Lo and their contemporaries did.

This solid-gold lineup is a true Mt. Olympus of freestyle with Stevie B., Lisa Lisa, Debbie Deb, TKA, Trinere, Jonny O, Cynthia and Freestyle, the Miami group responsible for probably the best robot vocal song of all time not by Kraftwerk (“Don’t Stop the Rock”).

As an added bonus, the roster also includes other dance-floor stars of the 1980s and 1990s like The Jets and Rob Base. Unfortunately, there’s also Color Me Badd. But this one is all about the freestyle.

6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 15, Amway Center, $41.50-$155.

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This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2023.

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