Nina Sky’s Y2QUÉ Party Series Kicks off this Weekend in NYC – Here Are the Details
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Nina Sky is celebrating the 2000s dance moment in a huge way. The Puerto Rican-American duo is kicking off Y2QUÉ, a new party series commemorating the most popular sounds of the turn of the millennium and featuring performances by iconic Latine artists that defined the era. The first party is set to take place at the Elsewhere Space Rooftop in New York, NY, on July 28. In a conversation with Nina Sky, the sister duo talks to Remezcla about the party’s origin, what’s special about it, and what fans can expect from it.
This Sunday’s (July 28) event will feature Nina Sky, Dominican DJ Ultraviolet, Maricón (Latine duo Joselo and Fried Plátano), Dominican DJ and producer Dana LU, and Puerto Rican-American artist Lumidee. The idea of the party is for the DJ and performers to bring their vision of Y2K to life by honoring the sounds that captured the era.
Rooted in celebrating their 20th anniversary, Nina Sky made this event bigger by saluting the whole new millennium instead. In a nutshell, Y2QUÉ aims to commemorate the 2000s dance era from their unique perspective as Latinas in NYC. “We were thinking about connecting what we do as DJs and performers, and that’s how Y2QUÉ came about,” they share.
They continue: “[Y2QUÉ] is what makes what we do different and what makes the party different. It’s like everything you’d expect from that era: the boy bands, Timbaland, [The] Neptunes, the future pop sounds, but with the fusion of how we experienced it from the Latine/Latina perspective, where we’re fusing reggaeton music – you might hear Son By Four – and it’s all going to make sense because we’re serving our palettes, this fusion of music, not only being artists during that era and having our own music peak, but being fans of the music.”
Though the party is from a Latina POV, the party is meant to encompass everyone who helped define the era. It’s not only a way to celebrate their hits like “Move Ya Body,” which is still being sampled by Beyoncé and Kehlani, but also to embrace genre and generational diversity. “It is cool to see just how the power of music and how great music transcends time, and we feel very blessed to have contributed to that,” they say.
“As Latinas from New York City that really just pushed forward and have experimented so much in what we’ve done from making reggaeton songs with N.O.R.E. and Daddy Yankee to songs with The Alchemist to Major Lazer to our own music – it’s cool. It’s also cool to see how the fusion of music now is celebrated,” the twins add.
The party series hopes to reach cities like Los Angeles, Miami, and Houston. Moreover, the duo is excited to hear what the DJs have in store for the parties. “There’s no denying the impact that the Y2K era had globally on everyone. You didn’t have to live in that era. We grew up in the ‘90s, the 2000s, but we’re still inspired by music from the ‘80s to ‘90s,” the duo explains. “You don’t necessarily have to live in that era to find the inspiration. So we’re really excited to see how they find the inspiration and how they play it and interpret it as well.”
Tickets for the first Y2QUÉ party in NYC are on sale now.