Carlos Andrés Gómez

CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ, an award-winning poet and actor from New York City, has been described as "raw and intense...a rebel Don Juan with a sensitive edge" by Underrated Magazine (U.S.) and was called "a must-see" and given five stars (out of five) by Hairline Magazine (U.K.). A former social worker and public school teacher, he has performed at over 100 colleges and universities and toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. He is the 2006 Toronto International Poetry Slam Champion and a two-time National Poetry Slam Finalist, as a member of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café's Slam Team that finished 2nd and with the NYC/louderARTS Slam Team that finished 3rd in the U.S. He co-stars in Spike Lee's number one box office smash hit film that was selected as one of AFI's 10 Most Outstanding Motion Pictures of 2006, "INSIDE MAN" (Universal Pictures), with a lead role alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen. Most recently, he appears on the sixth season of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" -- voted "Favorite Poet" of his episode by viewers.
GÓMEZ won a Rocky Mountain Emmy® Award for his starring role in the groundbreaking "Respect Yourself" television spots, for which he was also a writer, and appears on the third season of the popular Showtime series "The L Word." His first full-length CD, "Carlos Andrés Gómez: Live from New York,” was unanimously chosen as the winner of the 2006 L.A. Music Award for Spoken Word Album of the Year. He has been showcased on the mun2 show "Vivo," appeared on Telemundo's "Así Está El Mundo," been a spotlight on MyNetworkTV/Sí TV's "LatiNation," and was just profiled in his own episode of "The Hollywood Life," a TV show out of Japan -- all coming on the heels of him gracing the cover of the February 2007 issue of Brass Magazine. A much sought-after performer in the international spotlight, he was one of the headline acts on the MTV-U sponsored Fight Apathy National Tour and did a month-long run of his critically acclaimed one-man play, "MAN UP," at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
He is the proud founder of The Excelano Project at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's premier spoken word/performance poetry collectives that took the National Championship Title at the 2007 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational just three years after sending its first team of rookies, coached by Gómez, that finished 4th in the nation. Three of Excelano's younger poets then defended their College Unions' National Title as members of the Philly Youth National Slam Team that won the Championship Title at the Brave New Voices 2007 International Youth Poetry Slam. Over the past 8 years, he has shared the stage with a diverse range of celebrated artists and icons, including Wyclef Jean, Amiri Baraka, MC Lyte, Yosef Komunyakaa, Toots and The Maytals, Martín Espada, Immortal Technique, Reel Big Fish, Donnell Rawlings, Pete Rock, Saul Williams, and Mos Def. He splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles.
To book CARLOS for a college/university show or other performance: [email protected]
REVIEWS
“Carlos Andrés Gómez is a truth-telling visionary.”
– Sarah Higginbotham, Brass Magazine (United States)
“Gómez lays himself bare…a quarter of the audience shed tears yet the show was uplifting.”
– Bernie Greenwood, Hairline Magazine (United Kingdom)
“When New York poet Carlos Andrés Gómez gets on stage, all the Hollywood silliness leaks out of the room…He performs with his whole body as if he’s conducting an orchestra of explosions.”
– Mindy Nettifee, Ism Quarterly (United States)
“Carlos Andrés Gómez is the voice of a nation…[He] proves that there are always men fighting in the underground creating a war. A war of words. A war of spirit. A conscious war.”
– Martin Hamelin, Le Monde (France)
“Carlos Andrés Gómez terrorizes a microphone with a rapid fire abandon…Some people write poetry. Yet others act like poets. Beyond them are the toilers, the true artisans of the word. This is the rarest breed.”
– Emanuel Jalonschi, Beyond Race Magazine (United States)
“Carlos Andrés Gómez is the new New Yorker super poet and top spoken word star.”
– Rayl Patzak, Claudio de das Hörportal (Germany)
“Gómez’s performance is part classic artiste and part lyrical prophet. Think Keats, meets Bob Marley meets Tupac Shakur.”
– Searlina Bodden, Caymanian Compass (Cayman Islands)
VIDEO OF POEM "ALL WE HAVE" LIVE AT THE NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
(FROM UPCOMING LIVE DVD)
VIDEO OF POEM "DISTINCTLY BEAUTIFUL"
(FROM UPCOMING LIVE DVD)
a poem about his experiences as a public school teacher in NYC and his adolescent students doing the "distinctly beautiful" exercise.
Join the DISTINCTLY BEAUTIFUL facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14894985121
Fight back against a world that tells you that you are not enough.
VIDEO OF "WHAT'S GENOCIDE?"
(HBO'S DEF POETRY SEASON 6, EPISODE 41)
VOTE FOR CARLOS' PERFORMANCE: http://www.hbo.com/defpoetry/episodes/season6/episode03.html
LEARN MORE ABOUT CARLOS' JOURNEY -- SPOTLIGHT ON "LATINATION"
(MY NETWORK TV / SíTV) JAN. '07
FOR BEST VIEWING -- ALLOW TIME FOR VIDEOS TO LOAD FULLY BEFORE WATCHING
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