Sunday, April 13, 2008

ANDRES LOPEZ: A SUCCESSFUL PERSON

Andres Lopez Forero was born on June 25, 1971 in Bogotá, Colombia. Comedian considered the pioneer of the genre 'Stand-Up Comedy "in his country. In 2006 Universal Music Colombia gave him the DVD of Diamond for his DVD of The Letters Ball, comedy format Stand-up comedy skits containing about different Colombian generations.

Lopez graduated from the College Bachelor of Liceo Navarra of Bogotá, a school renowned for its high academic standards. He started his talent as “cuentero” in the year 1990 at the Andes University where he studied Systems Engineering and Anthropology.

His most recent work is' The Ball of Letters' sociological analysis of life in Colombia since the years 1960 to 2000. By having a family and educational content, this work is characterized as reconciliation between generations and nationalities. To March 2005, more than 300,000 people had attended this work. In August of that same year he presented in front of 44,000 people at the beginning of a concert, was hailed by everybody in the event.
In December 2005, Hard Rock Cafe Bogota Andres Lopez launched The Ball of Letters in DVD format under seal and the production of Universal Music Colombia, with the aim of disseminating their work to Colombians living outside the country and to motivate people to buy the original DVD. On March 2, 2006 Universal Music Colombia handed Andres Lopez DVD diamond to overcome the original 60,000 DVDs sold, making The Letters Ball in the best-selling DVD in the history of Colombia.


In July 2006 Andres Lopez performs successful tour of The International The Letters Ball in four different countries, cities he visited were: Los Angeles, Panama, Quito, Toronto, New York, Miami, Madrid, Houston, Orlando. The presentations were attended from 4500 to 700 people per event.

In January 2007 he introduced his new work I call The Window to create his new DVD that was introduced to the market in April of that year. In 2007 he continued promoting his works to Colombians living abroad, to teach new comedians art Stand up Comedy in Colombia, to create new spaces for creativity as caricature and produce animated television programs.

Andres has a commitment as an artist with the community due to he has donated events to raise funds for social purposes. Also he has delivered to each city that visits a conference on the book 'The Way to Happiness' R Hubbard, there spoke of how to achieve the goals and be happy keeping healthy moral and an ethical commitment. His purpose is to makes good people have the opportunity to improve their lives and do something important.

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