Joe Gabrielo

Josephus Gabrielo Casillas Santiago (born November 23, 1994), known as Joe Gabrielo, is a Puerto Rican YouTuber, actor, television and radio producer. He was born in Puerto Rico, lived for 5 years in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he moved to Talcahuano, Chile for almost one year to learn Spanish and moved once again to Puerto Rico where he started Kindergarten and grew up.

Brother to singer and actress Alhana Casillas, also known as Alyy Del Coral and Christiano Casillas, who participated on a Gerber commercial in the 90's and was feature on a popular Puerto Rican kids television show called "Chícola y La Ganga" as a baby. Son of both college actor and actress Benjamín Casillas and Mayra Santiago, nephew of 11Q 11.40AM's radio broadcaster Francis Edil Santiago, grandson of Fidelty 95.7FM's radio icon Rafael Santiago (1938-2002) and stepson of WAPA's television news anchor icon Luz Nereida Velez.

Career & Life
The divorce of both parents, lead Benjamín to marry anchor Luz Nereida Velez, who introduced him to the media arts when he was 7. Being to young and all, Joe quickly started participating in shows like "Club Sunshine", "El Show Del Mediodía", "Entrando Por La Cocina" and "Vecinos" as an extra and supporting role, whenever they needed a child image, which sadly all ended when he hit 12, since he was no longer a child.

Still interested in the medias, luckily, Gabrielo was told by his 8th grade Spanish teacher about a high school specialized in television and radio production where he attended the 9th grade and struggled all the way until he happily graduated in 2012. All through high he got the chance to be teach by producer for movie "Muerte En El Paraíso", Abimael Acosta Portalatín, and Daritza Ortíz, also known as Lú Dica, associated producer for "Entre Nosotras".

Part of the luck of being in that high school gave him the chance to participate with radio's Taller Dramático where he got the opportunity of being in an actual play titled La Dinga y Mandinga de Catalino playing life's toughest curse as a sperm turned later into a baby. Being in the play got him to work with Puerto Rican artists like Viviana Falcón, Nelson Del Valle, José Brocco, Amalia Cruz, Raquel Montero, Luz Odilia Font, Francisco Capó, Juan Carlos Santa Cruz, Yazmín Pereira, Miguel Diffoot, Erick Pérez, Nelly Joe Carmona, Ricardo Fábregues, Santos Nazario, Herman O’Neill, Gilda Haddock, Alicia Bibiloni, Carlos Ortega, Shorty Castro, Junior Abrams, Armando Pardo, Alberto Rodríguez, Alberto Zambrana, Martita Martínez, Maylia Pérez, Tito Negrón, Rey Francisco Quiñones, producers like Alejandro Primero, Edith Cabrera', Manuel Villafañe, writers like Alina Marrero, Elsa López, Estela Soto, Héctor Méndez and director Bobby Díaz.

As a senior, he was given, as requirement for graduation, an internship in Channel 6 (Puerto Rico TV) at Máxima 940AM and Allegro 11.93FM radio where he received the medal for "Best Executory/Supervised Practice/WIPR 2012" by producing a teen radio show called "Cibernética". After receiving the medal and a letter of recommendation from Luz Nereida Velez, he got into an agreement with the Vice President in charge of radio to launch Máxima radio, also for television as "MáximaTV", which is now developing with their own original television series, putting Joe Gabrielo as a founder, CEO and Vice President of the new network.