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Andres Rodriguez was born in Brooklyn, New York. Raised by his mom and step dad, his life was filled with a lot of adventure mixed with a lot of drama.  Growing up in the streets of Brooklyn during the 80’s was a breeze it was the fitting in that was hard.  
Andres got his first taste of theater in junior High School-I.S.88.  Before he finished his senior year to go to High School he had found that dancing was his passion.  He had heard about an audition for a dance group for a talent show.  At the time there was a Menudo craze and local talent shows was all he was allowed to do. His mother was very big on schooling and that was all that was important to her. She no less allowed him to. After that first show he knew that the spotlight was where he wanted to be.  
He auditioned and attended Julia Richman H.S where he enrolled in the Talented Unlimited program.  That is where he honed in his acting skills. He majored in musical theater which taught him how to sing, dance and do a bit of acting. Things didn’t change much for him. Out fo the three it was singing that called to him and landed him right into the freestyle era.
At the time Freestyle music was huge in America. There were local clubs that he would go to in Manhattan. Every weekend that rolled by he would go to the clubs and dance. It was in these clubs that he was introduced to a producer is his neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn. 
Arsenio Rodriguez was an up and coming producer that had a knack for freestyle or dance music. He had heard of Andres popularity and they both produced a freestyle song called “In The Rain” under the name Pro & The Groove, which was the name of his backup dancers.  It turned out to be a local hit and gigging around the club circuit was well under way.  After releasing that freestyle song he got hooked up with another producer names Issac Santiago.  Issac worked at a local momma and poppa record store and had done some releases for Strictly Rhythm. He released another song called Dirty Talk under that label.
He left the club circuit and would not return for 9 years,. Throught all those years he wrote.
He returned to music as an outlet to release stress and it was at the famous Palladium that he met the one person that would gear him towards a career change- Felix Rodriguez.  
It was this young playwright that would offer Andres acting gigs in an off Broadway show that would lead Andres to pursue acting. The play was called “Life’s A Drag”.  After that play Andres was constantly in Off Broadway shows for 7 years.  He’s done both extended runs of “Bangee” a play written by A.B Lugo and was involved in other Indie films and short plays.  It wasn’t till the mid 90’s that he wrote his life story and put it up on stage called – “Making Of A Wo-man”.  It was a combination of monologues of people who shaped his life with stand up in between. It ran for 2 weeks and was a solid sold out run. It was at the famous Nuyorican Poets Café down town. He laughs when asked about it.  “People till this day ask me to put it up or how it has changed their lives. I just talked about my life and it turned into a comedy.  I didn’t write it with the intentions of being comical, it just turned out that way.”
Now we turn the clock 15yrs later and Andres returns with his own comedy troupe Lose Control and with it his own style of stand up.   
He usually talks of his experiences about his life and people he meets and uses that in his stand up. In between he involves the audience and they feel like they are at home watching T.V for a good hour and a half just laughing and forgetting their problems.
“I want to make a change in how people view the hardships of life.  A little laughter goes a long way to heal the soul.” and with those words he is out, ready to go to a rehearsal.
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