Blue Buddha: Singer/Lyricist/Songwriter
Brian Steele: Lead Guitar
Carlos Rudolfo Pena: Drums
Nate "Monkey" Greenberg: Bass
Influences
Some of the folks I like are: Radiohead, George Benson, Al Green, Gorillaz,Oleta Adams, Portishead, Live, Smashing Pumpkins, Greta, Arrested Development, The Roots, Outkast, Janet Jackson, Olga Salamanca, Marja West, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti and many more...!!!
This video below is my fall semester project from my first and last semester at New College, before it closed. The show starts in the dark so give it a minute before the lights come up. This show itself is called Tremor Festival where students that were in the Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) show their work, everyone from the BA candidates, like myself to the MFA's. The title is called, "re: Fat Ass!" Written, directed and performed by Blue Buddha. All music by Blue Buddha and featuring a piece of "Gold Digger" by Kanye West. I've written music and lyrics before but this is the first time Iv'e written and performed a text based performance piece. Hope you enjoy it! Just did 2 more shows and will add them when I get the video cheers!!
Blue Buddha is a singer, songwriter, lyricist, writer, performance artist, activist and student. He has been singing since the age of seven in school and church choirs, with rock bands like Juggernaut, Upright Urbanite, Iconoclasts and Blue Buddha, as a band w/ Friends and as a solo artist. His inspiration for writing songs, lyrics or performance pieces comes from his life journey and the intersection of others. Be it a brief glance of a stranger, shame and hatred from a loved one or a revelation about his own happiness those moments mature into music, prose, laughter, pain, joy, tears and love.
A Love of wonder, surprises, and newness, of hurt with the awareness there is a lesson to be learned and of family in its many configurations!
Blue has played in San Francisco venues like El Rio, The Eagle Tavern, DNA Lounge, Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, Masonic Temple and SF Pride Main and Soul of Pride African American Stages. He has hosted open mics in San Francisco at El Rio, Voo Doo Lounge and Brainwash, which won “The Best Open Mic” in 2004 in The Bay Guardian. The performance artist side of Blue is new and has been cultivated in shows with Super Sonic Theatre, “Exit Sign: A Rock Opera” by Carrie Baum and under the direction of Dwayne Calizo for The Hazardous Waste Project: Making Love. The Start of this new thread germinated in Tremors Festival at New College Theatre with his debut writing and performance piece, “re: Fat Ass!” Blue Buddha and Friends won first place for "Original Material" in the Cabaret Showcase Showdown at Bijou, hosted by Trauma Flintstone and Katya Smirnoff Skyy.
Buddha has recently received a grant from the Queer Cultural Center to write and perform a show for the 2009 Queer Performance Festival in San Francisco. He has also been an active member and sits on the board of the non-profit, The Community Initiative. Blue is currently finishing his Undergrad in Interdisciplinary Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies, where he will continue to Graduate school and receive a Master’s in Psychotherapy and sit for the boards for Marriage and Family Therapist.
Blue Buddha sings Jazz, House/Electronica, Rock, Blue’s, Gospel, Folk and Indie. Collaboration is one of his desires and commitments. Blue hopes you enjoy your day, live your life to the fullest and hit him up if you want to work together.
peace, blue buddha
"Let the Soul Rise!"
Faith in Life
Come on into Oral-Cul’s House, Be Bootiful! Oral-Cul is a
curvy mama with an open heart and a sultry voice that guides the weary urban
traveler. Like the “Eyes of Laura Mars” see what it means to be fat,
black and queer in San Francisco all the while getting your wig worked.
Our dear brother, Amoni, died Wed, April 8, 2009 at the age of 9. He is the one in the chair. We will miss him dearly and am glad to know that he knew he was loved. My parents adopted these beautiful little ones a few years back. I am sooo happy and blessed to have them in my life and as my family ;-)
Hey we have a really great show coming up September 19 at Broadway Studios San Francisco. Come check us out... We really love to put on a great show for you in a really great venue. Live 105 as well as other SF Radio Stations will be in attendance. Come check us out. Music starts at 9:00, Tickets sold online at: acteva. com/go/bandsonbroadway. We will be sticking around before and after the show so come have drinks with us! Great venue in North Beach. Cheers!
