Artist description Los Delicados originally began as a guerrilla poetry/street performance movement conceptualized by San Francisco State creative writing students, Paul Flores, Darren de Leon and Norman Zelaya, who had a desire to take poetry where it was needed most, out of the university and into the street. They debuted their politicized, mezclalero poetics on the sidewalk at Union Square, the commercial tourist center of San Francisco in November 1996. Soon they were performing together at spoken word venues and Latino cultural centers all over the Bay Area.

Music Style Spoken Word

Artist History Founded in San Francisco, CA, in November of 1996, Los Delicados: Poetas del Sol are San Francisco's leading Latino poetry ensemble, made up of performance poets, Darren J de León, Paul S. Flores, Norman Antonio Zelaya, and percussionist Jimmy Biala. Whether fusing rhythmic spoken word with percussion, or comic theater with live mural making, they are constantly developing new hybrid performances aimed at drawing Latino youth and progressive minded audiences into the conscience of Chicano/Latino artistic expression. Los Delicados have performed all over California, the Midwest, and New York City with some of todays most renown poets and performers including Quincy Troupe, Miguel Algarín, Susana Baca, Quetzal, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Teatro Campesino, The Welfare Poets, Latina Theater Lab, and many more.

Group Members Paul Flores, Norman A. Zelaya, Darren De Leon

Albums Word Descarga

Press Reviews "Where modern-day troubadours contribute to the growthof poetry in both written form and oral, rousing new interest inpoetic art forms and performance art." (SF Examiner 4/21/00)

Location San Fransisco, CA - USA

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