Los Delicados

Los Delicados: Founded in 1996 in San Francisco's Mission District, Los Delicados are the leading Latino spoken word troupe. Comprised of three writers, Norman Zelaya, Darren J. de Leon, and Paul Flores, they come from three different California experiences – Nicoya in San Francisco, Xicano in San Bernardino, and Cuban/Mexican in the borderlands of San Diego – and took the national spoken word scene by storm with their unique Word Descarga style, yet to be replicated. In 2001 they released "Word Descarga" on Calaca Press and their play "Guayaberas By The Pound" has been taught in college campus classrooms throughout the country.

“Los Delicados: Word Descarga with Jimmy Biala.” Music. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. 

Camille T. Taiara of the San Francisco Bay Guardian describes this CD as "a postmodern Last Poets meet Perez-Prado, a Thelonius Monk meets Coco Fusco and Lenny Bruce. Los Delicados embrace contradiction ... By throwing together words and references that people don't normally encounter in the same context, they break down dominant conceptions and force their audience to think for themselves -- to participate in the lo-cura by forming their own associations and drawing their own conclusions. Theirs is a communal poetics. They combine the subversive power of music, theater, and poetry into a new genre. And -- as true sons and daughters of the movimiento of the 60s and 70s -- they have selected this genre as their weapon of choice in a struggle to popularize underrepresented voices and challenge ideological structures.”