As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle.Collection: Positive
Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.Collection: Age
I wake up every day with a smile - I'm a blessed man, and every day is special.Collection: Smile
Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational.Collection: Inspirational
I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.Collection: Strength
I'm happily married; I love to spend time with my wife going to movies, restaurants and travelling.
That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.
Life is too short to be serious.
We don't get concerned with stuff like pressure. We just do what makes us feel good.
You really need to stop and appreciate what you have, the love you have from your family, your friends, the love that you have for yourself.
We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'
It's a natural thing for us to be working on content and finding ways to implement, whether it's visuals or the partnerships to go along with the audio.
Black Eyed Peas is me, Will and apl.de.ap. That is who Black Eyed Peas is. We are the sole members.
We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.
I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.
Even if we are 50 or 60 years old, if we can do it we will continue to create content that pushes the envelope.
I grew up in a predominantly Asian and Mexican community, and because I did breakdance and poplock and all that, I did get a lot of criticism: 'You're Mexican, why are you doing that?'
Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual... we're always pushing the envelope.
Brazilian music has always been a part of us, but it's even more valuable now because of the sentiment or the theme of the actual song. So I feel like 'Street Livin'' is paying homage to what we started and it's touching on a lot of serious themes to DACA, immigration reform, prison control... all the things we address in the video.
We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.
Apl introduced me to all the Pinays he knew, and so I married one.
In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.
We have a global audience... we travel, and our name travels.
They didn't tell me what type of cancer I had. They didn't tell me what stage I was in. They just told me, 'Mr Gomez, you have cancer.' My life flashed before my eyes. I thought about my kids, I thought about my wife. Nothing prepares you for the shock of someone telling you you have that horrible disease.
The thing about Black Eyed Peas is we're very humorous. All we do is laugh all day.
We're best friends that get to travel the world and create a movement. That's what's special about Black Eyed Peas.
If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.
Zumbao' is a word that is not commonly used in mainstream America or even mainstream Latino America. For me, I needed a word that describes me as a performer, as an artist and that is just me wilding out and being crazy. I'm Zumbao.
When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.
My name is Gomez, that's my last name.
Our first major hit was 'Where Is the Love.' That was what best represented us bringing people together, no matter what walk of life, and no matter what culture or creed.
When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.
It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.
Apl, my bandmate, is from the Philippines. He came to America in 1989, and the first person he met was Will.i.am. And then, I met them when we were 17. Our common ground was music.
At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.
I did something that's a no-no in the music industry. I cut my hair. For years, my hair was my stamp. 'Oh, that's the long-haired guy from the Black Eyed Peas.' But when I did it, it was like a breath of fresh air.
Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.
My wife and I sometimes read books together. It's kind of like bed talk.
The Black Eyed Peas as a whole is something I always look forward to.
Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.
We have songs that are inspired by the Latin side. We have songs that are inspired by rock, African rhythms. Whatever country we go to usually inspires us.
I know that being in the entertainment business... my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.
I was the first Pea to have kids - you know how it is - I have three wonderful children, and when we talked about that time, and Fergie would say 'Tab, what is it like?' I always told her when the time is right, it's gonna happen for you, and God bless her, and I can't wait to see baby Ferg.
When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.
I want to really brand myself as an individual.
When I see children in New Delhi, babies walking around in no diapers and their mother is in a corner putting up bricks, it gives you a sense of being grounded.
The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes you stand out as an artist. I am not chasing the same things as Fergie or Will.i.am.
A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human being.
I'm a normal person just like everybody else. I just may have a different job. But I have kids, wife. I bleed, I went through cancer.
When you're getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it's just you, feeling like you're in a fight against something that you can't control.