DiegoFlorezArroyo

Diego Florez is a Poet, Artist, and musician. Born and Raised in North Denver. He was a part of Minor Disturbance, a youth poetry group. Minor Disturbance has won championships at Brave New Voices 3 times. He was also a recipient of the Real Rock Star Award 2015 as a student at Youth On Record, a non-profit Social justice organization.

For 3 years Diego was been the community director/Master of Ceremonies, for a grassroots community organization called Free Music For Free people. Free music for free people hosted 300+ free shows with and for young musicians that know positive vibrations and action can make a global impact. Diego has been featured in Westword Magazine, heyreverb.com, NPR, and has had poetry published in New Zealand. He has been on stage and studio with Immortal Technique, Ozomatli, members of the Fray, Flobots, Flor De Tolache, Joshua Trinidad, The Copper Children, and many more to come. Florez, now 21 years of age, plays in 2 local & touring bands: Los Mocochetes (ChicanoFunk) and PictureTheWaves (ProgJazzRock). He will also be releasing arrangments of his own under the alias "Dj Jajarcote" by the end of 2018. Overall Diego works to bring people together thru the written, spoken, and sung word. Diego says “ You know i just wanna play music, figure some new ways to do things and give them to our next generation, like my elders did for me.”

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