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Watts on the Water: Puerto Rican Day Parade Sunset Yacht Party Kick Off

Pier 36299 South Street, New York, NY 10002 · Map

This night happened — Thu 11 Jun

Studio About and The Kind Sun Initiative

Press play

Who was billed7 artists

In the order the promoter listed them.

Set times were not published.

Most of these pairings were meeting for the first time that night.
the pairs that have met

20 of the 21 pairings on this bill were first meetings.

  • Sunny Cheeba and Taina Enikeyi — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sun 9 Jun 2024.

Who they are

  • Mickey Perez

    New York City · 74 bookings since Aug 2023

    “A Brooklyn resident since 2002, Mickey represents & presents a non-commercial, diasporic sound irrespective of national borders spanning many different styles of dance music across Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Brasil & Black America.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    A Brooklyn resident since 2002, Mickey represents & presents a non-commercial, diasporic sound irrespective of national borders spanning many different styles of dance music across Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Brasil & Black America. Mickey currently has a regular monthly show on NYC's The Lot Radio titled BeBop Porú which runs concurrently as a monthly to bi-monthly dance party in Brooklyn, Mexico City & Miami. In 2022, Mickey launched a community based summer music series for all ages with Toribio (Conclave/BDA) called Public Service that runs monthly across neighborhood parks in Bed-Stuy & Bushwick in Brooklyn. In addition to playing regularly throughout Brooklyn, NYC; Mickey's also rocked crowds abroad in London, Montreal, Toronto, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Bogotá & Medellín in Colombia as well as Havana in Cuba in addition to doing his thing in Philadelphia, DC, St. Louis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Las Vegas & Miami nationally in the United States. In 2018, Mickey became a member of the legendary New York City Salsa record label - Fania Records’ Collective of DJs/Producers just prior the acquisition of Fania by Concord Music Group.

    Recently at Tompkins Square Park, Nublu 151, Head Hifi · often with Toribio, Garo, Ali Coleman, none of them here that night

  • Sunny Cheeba

    New York City · 32 bookings since Aug 2023

    Acoustic on 1, Ambient on 1, Blues Rock on 1 and Experimental on 1. styles on their catalogued releases
    Released on Burkina (1), Desperate Spirits (1) and Engine 1 Studios (1). labels on their catalogued releases

    Recently at public records, Dead Letter No. 9, Chatroom at Elsewhere · often with Natasha Diggs, Kilopatrah Jones, DJ Scratch, none of them here that night

  • Uptown Vinyl Supreme

    4 bookings since Mar 2024

    Recently at Chatroom at Elsewhere, Good Room, Nowadays · often with Toribio, Photay, Johnny Marte, none of them here that night

  • Taina Enikeyi

    7 bookings since Jun 2024

    Recently at Bossa Nova Civic Club, Pianos, Elsewhere · often with Cocoa Sensei, Lotso, JNA, none of them here that night

  • Food By

    2 bookings since Dec 2023

    Recently at The End · often with DJ Voices, Dev Delete, Frankie Bites, none of them here that night

names these artists often play with — not that night
  • Toribio12 with Mickey Perez and 1 with Uptown Vinyl Supreme
  • Garo5 with Mickey Perez
  • Ali Coleman2 with Mickey Perez
  • Cocoa Sensei2 with Taina Enikeyi
  • Deon Jamar2 with Mickey Perez
  • Kilopatrah Jones2 with Sunny Cheeba
  • King Klave2 with Mickey Perez
  • Natasha Diggs2 with Sunny Cheeba
11 said they were going.

The room

Pier 36 — 203 events and 92 distinct artists since Oct 2023.

Who put it on

Studio About — 1 event and 7 artists since Jun 2026.

The Kind Sun Initiative — 2 events and 8 artists since Jun 2026.

Artist photos: Resident Advisor, event 2450570.

Attending counts, venue and promoter records, co-billing history, release styles and release labels: adrift’s record of New York City events.

Quoted passages are the promoter’s or the artist’s own words, unedited.