Welmo E. Romero Joseph
born in Puerto Rico and since 1993 he started his artistic work in HipHop Culture as an MC. ½ Pocillo multimedia project, its lyrics and images question identities and genders notions accepted as universal and natural. Also addresses consumerism and its relation with mass media communication in the glocal (global and local) context.
Musical Productions and Featurings:
Suena mi barrio-HipHop album where the main MC´s were kids and youth from poor
comunities in San Juan, Puerto
LastDayz (Boricua Bomb Squad)-Independent HipHop Album
Brutal Police Menace- Fund raising album for the police brutality victims in
N.Y., Boston and Spain.
Blu Magazine # 8- Political HipHop Culture Magazine that includes a Cd
RaÃces- TV special about the history of Bomba and Plena and its relation with HipHop
De esto no se habla – HipHop songs for the OB/Gyn Medicine School Curriculum.
Welmo E. Romero Joseph participates in
Videos from Puerto Rico
Title of work : ½ POCILLO, video, 2003, 2:40
(curated by Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera and Marianne Ramirez-Aponte)