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Influences
Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Sylvia Plath, Junot Díaz, Audre Lorde, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Dr. Seuss, Ella Baker, Frantz Fanon, Assata Shakur, Martín Espada, Nikki Giovanni, Thelonious Monk, bell hooks, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Angela Davis, César Chávez, Mary Frances Berry, John Coltrane, Anna Julia Cooper, Evel Knievel, Janis Joplin, Paulo Freire, Fannie Lou Hamer, Derrick Bell, Phyllis Wheatley, Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, June Jordan, Immortal Technique, Adrienne Rich, DMX
Sounds Like
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MAJORITY OF ONE
COLLEGE TOUR
...continuing in 2010
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CARLOS & SAVION GLOVER
ON BROADWAY (THE TOWN HALL, NYC)
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CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ is an actor, playwright, and poet from New York City. He is a Russell Simmons HBO Def Poet and 2006 International Poetry Slam Champion. Winner of the 2009 Artist of the Year Award at the Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, he stars in Spike Lee’s number one box office smash hit film “INSIDE MAN” with a lead role alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen. In the past year, he's collaborated with Tony Award-winning tap dance legend Savion Glover on Broadway, represented the United States at the Poetry Africa International Festival in Durban, South Africa, and was a special guest performer at the MACY's Passport Fashion Show.
ON TOUR
Carlos has headlined over 200 college shows and at international festivals spanning 3 continents, delivered the keynote address at numerous conferences, and facilitated thousands of workshops on a wide range of topics around the world.
Dates are currently being lined up for Carlos' MAJORITY OF ONE COLLEGE TOUR...continuing in 2010.
BOOKING INQUIRIES:
Peter Dempsey (PKD Artist Management)
booking@carloslive.com
(Please note: All booking inquiries associated with NACA events must be directed exclusively to Travis Watkins of Layman Lyric Productions at poetry@laymanlyric.com)
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Hailed as a “truth-telling visionary” by Brass Magazine and a “lyrical prophet” by the Caymanian Compass, CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ has been dubbed "a leading voice at the forefront of the oral poetry movement" (The Punch). Winner of the 2009 Artist of the Year Award at the Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, Carlos appears on the sixth season of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" (voted “Favorite Poet” of his episode by viewers) and is the 2006 Toronto International Poetry Slam Champion. He stars in Spike Lee's number one box office smash hit film, "INSIDE MAN" (Universal Pictures) – selected as one of AFI's 10 Most Outstanding Motion Pictures of 2006 – with his breakout lead role as “Steve” alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen. Called "a must-see" and given five out of five stars by Hairline Magazine in England, Carlos was formerly a social worker and a public school teacher in New York City. He has performed at over 150 colleges and universities and toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. He is a two-time National Poetry Slam Finalist – once as a member of the renowned Nuyorican Poets Café's Slam Team that finished 2nd, and later with the NYC/louderARTS Slam Team that finished 3rd in the U.S. Most recently, he represented the United States at the Poetry Africa International Festival in Durban, South Africa and was a special guest performer at the MACY’s Passport Fashion Show. He also just collaborated with Tony Award-winning tap dance legend Savion Glover at The Town Hall on Broadway. Their much lauded performance, featured as part of the Nuyorican Poets Café’s “Aloud and Alive at 35” anniversary show, received a standing ovation from the sold-out audience.
GÓMEZ is the star of the Emmy® Award-winning "Respect Yourself" television spots by At Large Films, 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. His follow up album, “Fate by the throat” (a double LP), has picked up a slew of accolades, which includes winning the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Award for Spoken Word Poetry, receiving a 2008 L.A. Music Award Nomination for Spoken Word Performance and grabbing three nominations at the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards - two for Spoken Word Song of the Year and one for Spoken Word Album of the Year - ultimately finishing Runner-Up for Spoken Word Album of the Year and winning in the Spoken Word Song of the Year category for "Words Worth." Carlos received two additional 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Award nominations – Best Lyric for “What’s genocide?” and Best Music Video for his Broadway performance with Savion Glover – giving Gómez a total a five JPF Award nominations for 2009. He has been showcased on the mun2 show "Vivo" as well as Free Speech TV's "GRITtv with Laura Flanders," 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 T.V. show out of Japan – all of these appearances coming on the heels of him gracing the cover of the February 2007 issue of Brass Magazine. His theater credits include a starring role alongside Ursula Rucker in the world premiere of Grammy-nominated composer/musician Hannibal Lokumbe’s acclaimed production, “Trilogy,” as well as a leading role in “Union Square,” directed by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj (“A Raisin in the Sun” / ”Damn Yankees”), which opened the Genesis Theater Festival at the Crossroads Theater. 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 solo play, "MAN UP," at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
Gómez is the proud founder of The Excelano Project (“E.P.”) at the University of Pennsylvania. Featured in the HBO documentary series “Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices,” at the 40th NAACP Image Awards on FOX, and, most recently, at the White House performing for President Obama and his family, The Excelano Project has won the National Championship Title at both the 2009 and 2007 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Since finishing 4th in the nation their first time out, coached by Gómez in 2004, the performance poetry group has established its unprecedented legacy by reaching the national finals stage in all of the six years that it has competed. The summer of 2007 saw three of E.P.'s then younger poets defend the group's first 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, Gómez has shared the stage with a diverse range of celebrated artists and icons, including Wyclef Jean, Nikki Giovanni, Yosef Komunyakaa, MC Lyte, Amiri Baraka, Rosie Pérez, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, Quincy Troupe, Toots and The Maytals, Immortal Technique, Reel Big Fish, David Banner, Pete Rock, Suzanne Vega, Saul Williams, and Mos Def. He splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles.
BRASS MAGAZINE COVER STORY - "A POET'S VOICE" (FEB. 2007)
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LATEST NEWS
This past fall, Carlos was a special guest performer at the MACY's Passport Fashion Show in San Francisco. During the spring, he finished back-to-back sold out festival runs of his solo play "MAN UP" in New York City, culminating in him taking home the award for Best Short Play at the 2009 Downtown Urban Theater Festival. In the fall of 2008, he represented the United States at the Poetry Africa International Festival in Durban, South Africa and headlined at both the Borradh Buan Festival in Dublin, Ireland and the Kosmopolis International Festival of Literature in Barcelona, Spain. These festivals, as well as the Toronto Urban Music Festival in Canada, were all stops on Carlos' UBUNTU WORLD TOUR which took him to 13 countries in Africa, North America, and Europe in just under 3 months. Following on the heels of his world tour and 26-date REBEL WITH A CAUSE NATIONAL COLLEGE TOUR in 2008, Carlos is currently in the midst of his latest campaign, the MAJORITY OF ONE NATIONAL COLLEGE TOUR, currently lining up dates for 2010. He is a Creative Producer and Mentor of Emmy® Award-winning director Lisa Russell's new documentary film MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND, which follows a group of young writers/poets as they embark on a creative writing journey through diverse African countries to meet with African scholars, writers, griots, artists, and others to address myths and biases about the Mother Continent. Coinciding with filming that took place in September and October of 2008, Gómez traveled to Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda to engage in research for his latest solo play – “A World Without Fathers” – for which he was just awarded a 2008 HARLEM STAGE Fund for New Work Grant to write and develop the piece.
“Powerfully raw yet breathtakingly intimate poems...a poetry slam star.”
– Andrew Z. Galarneau, The Buffalo News (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 new New Yorker super poet and top spoken word star.”
– Rayl Patzak, Claudio de das Hörportal (Germany)
“Carlos Andrés Gómez is a truth-telling visionary.”
– Sarah Higginbotham, Brass Magazine (United States)
“Carlos Andrés Gómez is a leading voice at the forefront of the oral poetry movement.”
– Akeem Lasisi, The Punch (Nigeria)
“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 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)
“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)
"WHAT'S GENOCIDE?"
HBO'S DEF POETRY SEASON 6, EPISODE 41
CARLOS ON HBO - VOTED "FAVORITE POET" OF HIS EPISODE BY VIEWERS
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.
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Fight back against a world that tells you that you are not enough.
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so anyways I am sitting here doing homework and I am listening to your poetry and it is hitting me!! Every time it says something different to me!!!! YOU are such an inspiration!!!! Speak your truth papi!!!!!
If you still check this thing because for me I know it's less frequent, It was nice meeting you at Nuyoricans for Algarin's release. Much respect, I went there for inspiration and I got it!
HELLO SEXY BABY...JUST WANTED 2 STOP BY 2 SHOW U SUM PUERTO RICAN LOVE IN UR PAGE BABY,HAVE A GOOD WEEK AND HAVE A GOOD NITE 2 SEXY BABY!!!MUAHHH OXOXOXOX
OH NO YOU DIDN'T!! LOL....what u know about transformers and fraggle rock saturday mornings?? you forgot mighty hercules and astro boy...but I'll forgive you, lol.
Just soaked in the new material....always a blessing/soothing...thanks Carlos!
I always put in my earphones when I listen to your pieces, Brother, cause I don't want to miss any words, breaths, pauses, sweat flowing, spit flying...you take me to school, son! I look forward to seeing you soon. Peace, Love, Light and Creativity, Mama C
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