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He did commercials, for instance, for Microsoft, Disney and Old Navy, but also for younger peer groups, such as for the toy companies ''Hot Wheels'' and ''Power Rangers''. Gabe achieved even a particular sort of immortality by being featured in two installments of the popular ''Just Dance'' series of video games. The first, ''Just Dance: Disney Party'', was released for the Wii and Xbox 360 in 2012; the second, ''Just Dance Kids 2014'', as the game coach character, saw release on the Wii, Wii U and Xbox 360 the following year. | He did commercials, for instance, for Microsoft, Disney and Old Navy, but also for younger peer groups, such as for the toy companies ''Hot Wheels'' and ''Power Rangers''. Gabe achieved even a particular sort of immortality by being featured in two installments of the popular ''Just Dance'' series of video games. The first, ''Just Dance: Disney Party'', was released for the Wii and Xbox 360 in 2012; the second, ''Just Dance Kids 2014'', as the game coach character, saw release on the Wii, Wii U and Xbox 360 the following year. | ||
In 2017, Gabe got first time attention as great hip-hop choreographer due his concept video "Turn Up The Music", song by his idol Chris Brown, which he conceived of and designed as the opening number of a fundraising gala. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-9gPnpejI Turn Up the Music | Chris Brown | Choreography/Concept by Gabe De Guzman]</ref> | In 2017, Gabe got first time attention as great hip-hop choreographer due his concept video "Turn Up The Music", song by his idol Chris Brown, which he conceived of and designed as the opening number of a fundraising gala. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-9gPnpejI Turn Up the Music | Chris Brown | Choreography/Concept by Gabe De Guzman]</ref> His dance idols are Michael Jackson and Steven "Twitch" Boss. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3IyaC9nSOY GET TO KNOW GABE DEGUZMAN]</ref> | ||
His favorite move is jumping from different positions, sometimes with backflip, piroettes etc, into a James Brown split. A miracle he said he never got seriously injured. Sometimes he hurted himself a little, shoke it off<ref>[https://youtu.be/1Iz2iz7XLRA?t=35 Gabe De Guzman Q&A]</ref> and just rushed back into battle for a new charge, because his dance style is extremely fast with brutal accents. His former permanent dance partner [[Kaycee Rice]] said about him, his spirit animal must be a cheetah, because he's so fast.<ref>[https://www.dancespirit.com/teenage-mutants-2326732372.html Gabe De Guzman and Kaycee Rice Are a Stage Match Made in Hip-Hop Heaven]</ref> But because he can jump very high and far, get down and stand up very fast too, maybe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor Velociraptor] could be the best totem for him. He is also known for his head slides, when he slide yards over the dance floor with his feet strait vertical top on his head. Derek Hough found at NBC World of Dance his head slide awesome and sick. | His favorite move is jumping from different positions, sometimes with backflip, piroettes etc, into a James Brown split. A miracle he said he never got seriously injured. Sometimes he hurted himself a little, shoke it off<ref>[https://youtu.be/1Iz2iz7XLRA?t=35 Gabe De Guzman Q&A]</ref> and just rushed back into battle for a new charge, because his dance style is extremely fast with brutal accents. His former permanent dance partner [[Kaycee Rice]] said about him, his spirit animal must be a cheetah, because he's so fast.<ref>[https://www.dancespirit.com/teenage-mutants-2326732372.html Gabe De Guzman and Kaycee Rice Are a Stage Match Made in Hip-Hop Heaven]</ref> But because he can jump very high and far, get down and stand up very fast too, maybe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor Velociraptor] could be the best totem for him. He is also known for his head slides, when he slide yards over the dance floor with his feet strait vertical top on his head. Derek Hough found at NBC World of Dance his head slide awesome and sick. | ||
He started dancing when he was five years old | He started dancing when he was five years old witha combo class in tap and ballet. Gabe’s parents have fully supported his dancing career right from the start. As a child, he suffered from asthma and other allergies which needed him to find an indoor activity, after came always home sick doing other sports. Since he was not getting many chances to employ his energy outide, his older sister got him into dancing, where he let out all his pent up passion and energy. She even wanted him to start with four. He has always had a passion for dancing, right from the time he used to dance up and down at his sister’s dance competitions. Gabe was just about ten years old when he won the Hall of Fame Junior Solo National Championship, about one year after he started competing. Due success, he had received a number of dance scholarships from prestigious training workshops, conventions and events such as Camp Pulse, Jump, Nuvo, Co Dance, Monsters of Hip Hop and The Dance Awards. he is trained in jazz, tap, ballet, musical theather and contemporary. He said once “Ballet, ballet, ballet — especially for boys! It’s the foundation for everything.” But most videos he is featured he is performing hip-hop. However, his freestyle is killing it all. He said that he learned from dancing leadership, preparation, professionalism, patience and also how to attracts "chicks" on a party. But to play the macho he was bullied too much in school, because he was a male dancer. | ||
He was one of the very first members of ImmaBeast, because he was recruited directly by "WillDaBeast" Adams before he founded IMMA - it was literally an animal thing - and Gabe joined later LilBeast, the company subsection for very young talented dancers, who became all famous too. Another mentor was Tricia Miranda, who trained the prodigy [[Kaycee Rice]] and thought, he was a perfect match for Kaycee as duet, because they can handle both - performance and technical skills - and were of same size (yet). But there was an obstacle for their rehearsals; Kaycee and Gabe lived three hours apart from each other, because he was grown up in Temecula valley and never moved until today, and she lives in the LA metropolitian area. They often just met each other in LA in classes, conventions or sometimes at Studio 13 in Simi Valley, which Kaycee's mom owned. But they got later the opportunity to work intensively together, when they became both The Pulse Elite proteges in New York 2015, toured across the US with some celebrity choreographers, and many other very talented industry dancers, and graduated together as Elite Almnani in 2016. But after that they had separated paths. Tricia once was kidding on the Yuma Hip-Hop festival that Kaycee left Gabe for her new partner [[Sean Lew]]. But if it would be some truth in it, Gabe wasn't a child of sadness, because he toured with his and also Kaycee's best friend Tati McQuay through the Philipinnes | He was one of the very first members of ImmaBeast, because he was recruited directly by "WillDaBeast" Adams before he founded IMMA - it was literally an animal thing - and Gabe joined later LilBeast, the company subsection for very young talented dancers, who became all famous too. Another mentor was Tricia Miranda, who trained the prodigy [[Kaycee Rice]] and thought, he was a perfect match for Kaycee as duet, because they can handle both - performance and technical skills - and were of same size (yet). But there was an obstacle for their rehearsals; Kaycee and Gabe lived three hours apart from each other, because he was grown up in Temecula valley and never moved until today, and she lives in the LA metropolitian area. They often just met each other in LA in classes, conventions or sometimes at Studio 13 in Simi Valley, which Kaycee's mom owned. But they got later the opportunity to work intensively together, when they became both The Pulse Elite proteges in New York 2015, toured across the US with some celebrity choreographers, and many other very talented industry dancers, and graduated together as Elite Almnani in 2016. But after that they had separated paths. Tricia once was kidding on the Yuma Hip-Hop festival that Kaycee left Gabe for her new partner [[Sean Lew]]. But if it would be some truth in it, Gabe wasn't a child of sadness, because he toured with his and also Kaycee's best friend Tati McQuay through the Philipinnes and wisited eight cities together. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwPEKEJhBDM GABE DE GUZMAN NET25 LETTERS AND MUSIC Full Interview]</ref> | ||
He made actually more projects with the boys and his friends, such as, [[Sean Lew]], Josh Price and later Julian Deguzman. And formed with Sean, Josh, Kenneth San Jose, Grant Knoche, Big Will Simmons, Josh Cruzwith with a little changing cast | He made actually more projects with the boys and his friends, such as, [[Sean Lew]], Josh Price and later Julian Deguzman. And formed with Sean, Josh, Kenneth San Jose, Grant Knoche, Big Will Simmons, Josh Cruzwith with a little changing cast the boy dance group Boy Squad and made a complete 26 episodes long-tern series of it since 2015. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRSXKM2xM90 Boy Squad - Vidcon - Verizon Performance]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNnTcx5w8FU Boy Squad Dance Video | Right Now - Soul Mechanix]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOZ8GkjkZs Boy Squad Dance Video | Oh Yea - D. Cope]</ref> But it wasn't a males only. They were sometimes counterparted with a girl squad by [[Bailey Sok]], [[Tahani Anderson]], Tati McQuay, [[Sierra Neudeck]] and Leanne Tessa.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2nZXLFdjk BOY SQUAD | Bailey Sok, Kenneth San Jose, Gabe De Guzman, Tati McQuay, Will Simmons]</ref> But he worked also permently together with his best buddy "Big Will" Simmons and about a year with AC Bonifacio. | ||
Gabe got homeschooled and graduated in 2019 high school.His favor subject was math or lunch. | Gabe got homeschooled and graduated in 2019 high school.His favor subject was math or lunch. | ||