About

Gabriel Morales is a Venezuelan-American guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Pulling on influences ranging from electric blues and jazz to contemporary composition and Latin-American folk, the work Gabriel creates as a solo artist rejects strict categorization. His writing is rooted in the blues, while exploring a wider harmonic and rhythmic palette paired with modern songwriting sensibilities. Going in hand with these aesthetics, his lyrics deal with themes of identity, change, and perception.

Gabriel has performed with musicians and bands such as Snarky Puppy, Michael League, Kassa Overall, Ben Williams, Carla Canales, Jamie McLean Band, and Tippan Phasuk, among others.

In addition to performance, he produces, engineers, and mixes projects for various artists ranging from latino songwriter to indie jazz.

Passionate about music and arts advocacy, Gabriel has worked with non-for-profits and organizations such as The Canales Project, Music Lab at Jefferson Center, Education Through Music (New York), Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Oberlin Center for the Arts, and Taubman Museum of Art. He is also a teaching artist at Harlem School of the Arts.

Gabriel studied under Bobby Ferrazza (Donald Byrd, Clark Terry), earning a B.M. in Jazz Guitar Performance in June, 2022 from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio.