Gabe De Guzman

Gabriel ***** de Guzman (established as Gabe De Guzman, born on February 20th, 2001 in Murrieta, California, US) is a multi-talented professional dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, actor and a singer and musician with Filipino roots living in California.

Gabe De Guzman
Gender	Male
Age	19
Birthdate	February 20, 2001
Nationality	American
Hometown	Murrieta, California
Height	5'8"
Eye Color	Dark Brown
Hair Color	Black
School Grade	Class of 2018
Professional Information
Profession	Dancer Choreographer Actor
Affiliations	MSA Agency Dream Talent Management ImmaBEAST Co. Boy Squad Boys of Temecula
Dance Studios	Temecula Dance Company (2011-) IMMA Space (2017-)
Titles	see below
Friends and Family
Parents	Florence Guzman (Mother) Egay De Guzman (Father) Janelle Ginestra-Adams (Mama Beast) William Adams (Papa Beast)
Siblings	Danielle Kristina De Guzman
Friends	Tati McQuay Sean Lew Bailey Sok Charlize Glass Will Simmons Julian DeGuzman Josh Price Kenneth San Jose Tricia Miranda Matt Steffanina Erik Saradpon Caitlin Carmichael
Pets	1 dog (Buster)
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Gabe got first time public eye when he performed with his partner Kaycee Rice on America's Got Talent as Kaycee & Gabe in 2014. But he was already live on stage with some big celebrities before since he was ten, such as Bruno Mars, Cee-Lo Green, and Far East Movement on Macy's Passport Glamorama in 2011. He got most fame of public eye when he performed as winner of the tWitch & Allison's Kids Dance Challenge on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2015 and as a member of the Club Mickey Mouse and was becoming a Mouseketeer, which founded the careers of many famous artists. He got literally Disney's brand ambassador by that. Within the dance community Gabe was already an established star as dancer, choreographer and dance teacher, who got professional dancer when he was nine years old.

He performed live on stage with Will Smith on the Kids Choice Awards 2012 at the age of 11; on the TV broadcast with most watchers in American history - 120 millions plus 80,000 in the arena - the 2015 Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, side-by-side with Katy Perry and Missy Elliott with the age of 13; live on stage with Justin Bieber when he was 15; with Ariana Grande at the live A Snow White Christmas show at the age of 10 and with Carly Rose Sonenclair at the X Factor finale in 2012 at the age of 11; just to name a few.

He is featured as dancer in the music video "Lolly" by Maejor Ali ft.Justin Bieber and Juicy J (267M+ views), "Dirty Vibe" by Skrillex ft. Diplo, CL, and G-Dragon (56M+ views), and on Paul McCartney's Channel on his new dance 2015 remix music video "Say Say Say" by Paul and Michael Jackson.

He appeared on many TV shows such as NBC's World of Dance season one with his group Boys of Temecula, but they were eliminated in The Duels in an epic battle against The Lab, who as common known won the million dollars in season two; Dance Moms in 2015 , The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Disney's Shake it Up, The Radio Disney Music Awards from 2015 to 2017, and many more.

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. His dance idols are Michael Jackson and Steven "Twitch" Boss.

Gabe got homeschooled and graduated in 2019 high school.His favor subjects were math and lunch.

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 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. But because he can jump very high and far, get down and stand up very fast too, maybe 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 with a 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 attract "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 later 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.

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. 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. But he worked also permently together with his best buddy "Big Will" Simmons and about a year with AC Bonifacio.

Gabe has already an impressive non-dance acting career. In 2020, he played Logan in released "To the Beat!: Back 2 School" movie, played main role Justin in Maritte Lee Go's short film Illipino and performed on Disney's musical CGI-addon animation The Little Mermaid Live!. He performed on Phil Wight parody of The Mask starring Jim Carry and was doing very well as the villan. Worked out good, so Phil shot next parody of Rush Hour starring Jacky Chan and Chris Tucker and introduced Gabe's fast arm movements as Kung Fu elements . So stick more into acting seems be a good idea.

TV Competition Shows

America's Got Talent

In 2014, Gabe competed on season 9 of AGT with her dance partner Kaycee Rice as Kaycee & Gabe. NBC had invited them to take the audition, after their "Monster" video on The Pulse on Tour went viral. But they were eliminated during Judgment Week. Judge Howie Mandel voted "No", because he felt Gabe was much better than Kaycee. He did not know that she had a broken foot , because she did not tell. Otherwise she would not being allowed to perform on stage and had to let down Gabe.

tWitch & Allison's Kids Dance Challenge

In 2015, the duet with Kaycee Rice was much more successful on The Ellen DeGeneres Show season 13, where they both won the prize to get a chance being on the Ellen show. At the beginning it was announced that just one kid was allowed on Ellen, but they danced together first round as duo, were been accepted, spitted up for next one and at the end met each other as finalists. However, tWitch & Allison were so amazed by their talent, that they had spoken with Ellen let them both on the show, but they didn't tell, until final duel was battled out. After then they had shown the kids a video of Ellen telling them the good news. On the show, they performed as a quartet with tWitch & Allison, after a short interview by Ellen. Due their success they made it on the Jan 2016 cover of the DanceSpirit magazine.

World of Dance

In 2017, on the NBC World of Dance show season 1 he performed with his group Boys of Temecula. Gabe never said what it was the picture all about he laid Jennifer on the desk at the duels.

Qualifiers ("Canned Heat" – Jamiroquai)
Ne-Yo	??
Jennifer Lopez	??
Derek Hough	??
AVERAGE	80.3

Duels Round ("Shut Up and Dance" – Walk the Moon)
The Lab	89.7
Boys of Temecula	84.7

Filmography

Television

TV Acting Roles

Year	Series/Movie/Film	Role	Notes
2014	Playground Politix	Boy #4 - Dancer & Basket Ball Player Plot: When a group of girls approach a group of boys at the playground a dance battle ensues.	Produced by Romell Foster-Owens, Exec. Prod: Liinus Hietaniemi Co-Exec. Prod: George Blake, Music Supervisor: Andrew Lane, Director of Photography: Tommy Maddox. Starring Charlize Glass and Noah Citek, also Co-Starring Jordyn Jones, Big Will Simmons, Angel Gibbs, Elijah Vasquez, Malia "Boogie" Tinay, Talin Silva, Gabriel Humphrey, Sierra Neudeck, Harrison Bliss, Gabriella Milman, David Levy, Kendyl Yokoyama, Zachary Medina
2019	The Little Mermaid Live!	Cast Plot: A live broadcast of the beloved animated Disney tale with live performances of the songs on ABC.	Directors: Hamish Hamilton Ron Clements Writers: John Musker Ron Clements Stars: Auli'i Cravalho, Shaggy Graham Phillips
2020	Illipino	Starring as Justin. Plot: A troubled Filipino teen finds her strength through street dance.	Shortfilm. Release April 2020. Director: Maritte Lee Go Writers: Broderick Engelhard Maritte Lee Go Stars: Carla Vega Gabe De Guzman Kevin Trinio Perdido Co-Stars: Kevin Trinio Perdido Val Victa Logan Edra Casey Roxas
	To The Beat! Back 2 School	Logan Plot: Competition becomes fierce in the sequel to the hit teen comedy To The Beat as twins Mackie and Mia plus their arch rival and former neighbor Avery, along with all of their friends (and enemies), go back to their performing arts school following spring break. Friendships and feuds continue as sisterhood is tested, rivalries heat up, colorful characters are introduced and new bonds are formed, when Valley Performing Arts students are given the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for an all-expense paid summer scholarship program to the prestigious Triad Conservatory of Fine Arts in New York City.	Director: Jillian Clare Writers: Susan Bernhardt Susan Bernhardt Stars: Laura Krystine, Brisa Lalich, Jayden Bartels

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