About this artist
Gawvi is the stage name of Gabriel Alberto Azucena, a Christian electro-pop artist and producer who has helped shape the sound of the highly successful Reach Records label. His music blends rap, pop, and dance music with positive, self-encouraging messages.
Born in the Bronx in 1988, Azucena was raised in Miami and grew up listening to Latin and Caribbean music. He began producing under the name G-Styles in 2008, working with Trip Lee and Reach co-founder Lecrae. He officially became the label’s in-house producer in 2012, and produced artists such as KB, Andy Mineo, and Tedashii. Many of these albums charted high not only on Billboard’s Christian and Gospel Albums charts, but the general Billboard 200 as well. Lecrae’s 2014 album, Anomaly, which Azucena helped produce, was the first album to top both the Billboard 200 and the Gospel Albums charts. In 2016, Gawvi signed to Reach Records as a solo artist and began working on his debut album. The resulting We Belong dropped in March 2017. The following year, he issued Panorama, featuring appearances by Aklesso, WHATUPRG, and Lecrae. ~ Paul Simpson