Taboo

• BIOGRAPHY

Taboo is Mexican-American and Native American (shoshone) descent. He was born in July 14th 1975 Boyle Heights, Los Angeles and raised in Rosemead, California, attending Muscatel Middle School. As a child he did not turn to music until his late teens. He has a son born December 5, 1993 named Joshua Parish, who is starting his own band called “Delta Black”.

Two days before his 33rd birthday, Taboo married Jaymie Dizon in Pasadena, California on July 12, 2008. Will.I.Am and Apl.De.Ap served as groomsmen. The couple had their first child together on July 19, 2009. His name is Jimmy Jalen.

The artist plans to launch a non-profit arts school for children living in his hometown of Rosemead.
He joined the Black Eyed Peas in 1995. Groupmates Apl.De.Ap and Will.I.Am were originally in a group called Atban Klann, but changed the name after changing record labels. In 2001, Stacy Ferguson joined and completed the band’s current lineup. Taboo is known for his kung-fu-inspired dance moves (he is a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do and a black belt in Ninjitsu) and an eclectic style of dress. It is possible that his martial arts skills could have had a factor into him being cast as video game character Vega (whose character’s fighting style somewhat match Taboo’s) in the live-action movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li.
Taboo is planning launch his solo album after the THE END boom.

• FILMOGRAPHY:

DIRTY (2005)
Taboo as: Ramirez (Gangster)
Director: Chris Fisher
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Tagline: Violence Is A Language People Understand
Plot Synopsis: In a Los Angeles dominated by violent gangs and a corrupt LAPD Precinct, the dirty Officer Armando Sancho is haunted by his guilty since an innocent old man was accidentally killed in an operation with his also dirty partner Salim Adel. The Internal Affairs is pressing Sancho, who feels split between the loyalty to his mates and his conscience, and he has to make a statement at 6:00 PM. When his superiors Captain Spain and his Lieutenant assign the two cops for an operation dealing drugs apprehended by the police and stored as evidence with a powerful drug dealer, Sancho feels that something is wrong and they have been framed

COSMIC RADIO (2007)
Taboo as: Marcus (DJ)
Director: Stephen Savage
Genre: Drama
Plot Synopsis: The owner of a Idyllwild counter-culture radio station finds his modest business unexpectedly threatened when the daughter of a conservative senator comes to town and sparks a heated political tempest by attempting to undermine a push to clear cut a nearby forest. Now, as the unassuming citizens of the sleepy community are suddenly jarred awake due to the fierce debate that rages around town, the radio station owner finds the illusions that have propelled him through life don’t have the same power that they did when he was a young idealist.

STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI (2009)
Taboo as: Vega (warrior assassin)
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Tagline: Some fight for power. Some fight for us
Plot Synopsis: Based on the popular video game. Being only a child, Chun-Li presence as her father is kidnapped. Ten years later, is visited by Gen, a former criminal turned-defender of the weak. Gene, will help her find her father who is in the hands of a dangerous criminal named Bison.