Chris Gabo

Son of Colombian immigrants, Chris Gabo was born and raised in Tampa, Florida in an era where genre was permeable, where hip hop and punk rock were nothing if not synonyms. Fast, loud, strange, defiant. Plus: all those weirdos were theatre kids. After singing in a long series of bands, the first time he rapped on stage as a solo artist was opening up for a death metal band on prom night and it only got weirder from there. He takes his name sake 'Gabo' from the nickname Colombians give the father of magical realism, Gabriel García Márquez, and his complex imagistic lyrics live up to the moniker. Between sound checks on tour as a kid was where he wrote his first plays in piss stained dance-floors across the American South. His musical collaborations include Cakes Da Killa, Lazerbeak, DJ Trackstar of Run The Jewels, and Company Flow's Bigg Jus, he has opened up for Ana Tijoux and DJ Rob Swift and licensed music to Broad City and Champs-Elysees Film Festival's Coldwater. As a television writer he is currently in an overall deal with HBO and recently worked on Season 4 of In Treatment. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the poet Safia Elhillo and is a consulting producer on The Weeknd’s Show “The Idol.”