Marcos de la Guagua

I’m excited to be a featured artist at Thursday Night Love, July 24th at Bronxlandia, 910 Hunts Point Ave. 

I’ll perform a 30 min set of songs from my latest release We Have Been Change a gut-check for Millennials at…

What is creativity? What is productivity? What is really “generative”?

 Why don't economists talk about love?

Initiatives of Creatives Rebuild New York gave me the opportunity to delve into these questions as an artist and an idea-smith. 

It seems to…

It's a cabaret style storytelling tour of three generations of family legends. It's a Bronx tour de la Guagua, powered by imagination and cariño. It's my first solo show in a decade. I will perform songs powered by Bori-Ritmo, bridging…

Demo recordings can be a proof of concept.

         Let’s Make Christmas picks up in the middle of a story. Maybe it’s part of a larger musical. Maybe it just captures a moment. Early Études, vol 8: Christmas Musical Workshop features…

Happy 8/11!

Hip-hop heads revere the founders S. Bronx founders of our movement for “making something out of nothing”. It’s a poetic affirmation of the great barriers that our founders overcame. But literally, nothing comes from nothing. Life comes from…

As religious refugees from the King of Prussia, my maternal ancestors named the place they escaped to their “Freistadt” (Free-town). It wasn’t quite a town; it started with a church: Trinity Lutheran Church- Freistadt. 

While living in Puerto Rico, my…

Just under the wire, at about 10pm on March 31st, I reached my creative goal for Jan-March 2023: 6 albums in 3 months! I am grateful. Listen for free at MarcosdelaGuagua.Bandcamp.com with no log in, or build our collection and…

"Me Gusta Pierina” is a song I made to remind my friend of her truth.

We need to do more than clap back attacks on exemplary leaders like on AOC and Ketanji Brown Jackson. We need to sing their their…

This is a space my music is made for! Música en vivo de #MarcosdelaGuagua inspired by @PiSanchezNYC as we gather & organize for victory in the Nov general election, and imagine what comes next. Sat 10/16 2pm 2497 Jerome Av…

Classes were cancelled as we got word of the attacks, on the morning of 9/11/2001. The head of the dance department assembled students in one studio. The first thing she said was, “You must realize, we are going to war.” 

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