Concert • Record • Artist • Promotion • Since 1986

Please help find a cure for childhood cancer Click here

Nayobe

Pictured is concert promoter Darrin McGillis with Nayobe

Nayobe - has never been a "typical dance" singer. From her first record "Please Don’t Go (No Te Vayas)" to the high-tech shimmer of the ballad "Promise Me" Nayobe’s voice style, and personality have soared above formula and convention, taking her-and her listeners-into a stratosphere pulsing with heart, soul, and conviction.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nayobe Catalina Gomez first started singing "in the glee club in sixth grade". She sang at class parties and talent shows and her teachers encouraged her ability to perform and not be afraid in front of people. The pre-teen Nayobe was interested in gymnastics and ice-skating. "When I started singing, I said, WOW! I’ve got something here!," she remembers. She’d win talent contests singing on top of instumental versions of songs like Barbara Streisand’s "Evergreen" and Debbie Boone’s "You Light Up My Life". Sometimes we’d do things in Manhattan, Nayobe recalls, I wound up singing "The Greatest Love Of All" for former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.

By the age of 13, Nayobe was singing Off-Broadway and was an understudy for Lena Horne in "The Wiz". "I ended up being the Good Witch", she says, "and got three standing ovations!". Nayobe won the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night Contest and topped out a Fever records Talent Contest, which led to a recording contract with record executive Sal Abbatiello’s Fever Record’s Company.

Nayobe’s debut single "Please Don’t Go (No Te Vayas)" became the #1 club record in the United States, hitting #5 on Billboard’s Dance chart in addition to her first music video. Nayobe scored a role in the Motion Picture "Krush Groove" and sang "Please Don’t Go (No Te Vayas)" on the movies Soundtrack. Nayobe followed the single with "School Girl Crush", produced by Barry Eastman (who composed Freddie Jackson’s "Rock Me Tonight").

Nayobe’s self-titled debut album generated five Top 10 Dance Hits, including "Please Don’t Go (No Te Vayas)", "Second Chance For Love", "Good Things Come To Those Who Wait", and "I Guess I Fell In Love". When Nayobe sang selections off her debut album in venues from New York to Los Angeles, wrote Carol Cooper in "The Village Voice" newspaper, "The Latin teen sound she pioneered became a hit-making formula for dozens of less known singers.

Jerry Greenberg, President of WTG Records (a subsidiary of SONY Records), signed Nayobe for her second album. Her first WTG single, "It’s Too Late", appeared in the Motion Picture Soundtrack for the Hit Movie "TWINS", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito.

Nayobe opened in select cities for the Menudo "Sons of Rock USA Tour" promoted by Darrin McGillis. Nayobe also appears on the McGillis Records compilation release "Latin Teen Stars Vol. #1" singing her classic hit "Please Don't Go (No Te Vayas)".

Currently Nayobe is enjoying success with SonyBMG and her new hit record "I Love The Way You Love Me". Nayobe continues to tour world wide and performs her current hits along with the classic dance tracks like "Please Don't Go" a crowd pleaser.

Nayobe and good friend Marc Anthony