Photos: Andres performs at Obama 2 Presidential Inaugural Galas and more DC

Photos from Inaugural performances and from some of the TV interviews:


























The band
Andres Useche (vocals and guitar)
Alex Burke (keyboards)
Mela Lee Clinton McClean (b. vocals)
Karin Anna Cheung (b. vocals)
Tom Staunton (bass)
Jason Throop (drums)

Andres confirmed to perform at OBAMA Presidential Innagural Gala and Ball

I've accepted an invitation to perform at OBAMA Presidential Inaugural Gala and Ball: "We The People" on Jan 20th, at Capitol Hill , Washington DC.
I hope to see you there. Will share more details as they come.

Everyone who was A VOLUNTEER and wants to attend contact me privately.
I am going through a few other invitations to perform and will more than likely be in DC from the 15th to the 26th so i hope to see everyone at those performances or after.

A new interview I gave about my participation in the Obama movement and my earlier career is coming out today. I will post that later on.

Si!
Se Puede!

Will.I.Am and Andres Useche: Yes we Can meets Si Se Puede Cambiar

Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and yours truly. He first came to know me from my pro-Obama video Si, Se Puede Cambiar, which he put on his website DipDive long before he met me. This is the link www.dipdive.com/dip-approved/?p=15
He also put me on the hope.act.change poster and their website...

http://www.hopeactchange.com/media/view/4319
Will, a multiple Grammy award-winner, is the creator of the Wonderful YES WE CAN Obama video and a great, down to earth guy with a heart in the right place. In the photo up top we were throwing up peace signs but, alas, we were framed too closely.

We connected because we see eye to eye on the crisis this country is going through and agree on the way we can all help to move it forward. Obama 08 is an impotant part of that.
Here is his video Yes We Can and mine Si Se Puede Cambiar below
Yes We Can by Will.I.Am

Si Se Puede Cambiar by Andres Useche


and as an extra, here's Will.I.Am's and the Black Eyed Peas' "Where is the Love?" which he put out after we begun unjust and deceitful war.


We're doing all we can to make sure that we're all focused on the critical issues, the war and the economy and not he pity attacks the Republicans are using to try to distract the population. Time to think more about our economy and less about lipstick.
Si Se Puede!

Our "Si, se Puede Cambiar" video now on Link TV / surpasses 300,000 viewers on youtube

Our pro-Obama music video "Si, Se Puede Cambiar" has reached 301,794 hits, in one of the many versions up on youtube and mantains a rating of 4/5 stars. Today I was also contacted by the good folks at Link TV, who wanted to show it at their "Dear American Voter" section. You can also join the conversation here where they posted it this morning.



Cheers.

War of the Virals: My pro-Obama song battles McCain and Clinton videos on Youtube's main page. Cast your vote!

On Tuesday, our video "Si Se Puede Cambiar" was chosen by YouTube to represent Obama in their first ever "Trendsetter Tuesday". We're featured on their main page along with Hillary and McCain videos. We're still there. You can also find us at their Political Highlights page. Here's a link to their blog entry about it. Our video has been beating the opposition in both views and rating. Thanks for voting!
You can still rate us if you go directly to our page
 Incidentally one of the people who contacted me through youtube, offered to do a German translation of my song, and you can find that video here. Here are links to a Korean , version, another one in Vietnamese , in French , in Chinese and a multilingual version in eight languages.

Thanks to all the people volunteering to translate it into different languages and very special thanks to Captioned for Obama . You can contact them if you wish to translate my video or any Obama video into any other language.

Here's the multilingual one:



Here's the original posting of the video:


Thanks!

Texas, here we come! Sen. Cedillo and Si Se Puede Cambiar Artists to join forces for Obama

I'm pasting the United for Obama press release below:


8:40 AM - MEDIA ADVISORY: Obama Viral Video Artists Travel to Houston

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 28, 2008

OBAMA VIRAL VIDEO ARTISTS TRAVEL TO HOUSTON
Latino/Asian American Artists Behind "Si Se Puede Cambiar" Arrive Tomorrow

HOUSTON, TX – The artists behind the viral music video "Si Se Puede Cambiar" (Yes We Can Change) will fly to Houston, TX this weekend to volunteer for Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. "Si Se Puede Cambiar" has now been posted to the internet with English, Vietnamese, and Korean subtitles, where it has been viewed more than 80,000 times in six days.

Singer/songwriter Andres Useche (30), an immigrant from Colombia whose father lives in Houston, will arrive in Texas on Saturday morning. He will volunteer on Latino outreach with California State Senator Gilbert Cedillo, who makes a cameo in Useche's video.

Useche said of his new hit song, "I felt disillusioned and powerless for many years as I watched our government fail us. But Obama's message awakened me. While volunteering for him, I experienced the spirit of renewed enthusiasm that has touched so many people, and this inspired me to write the song."

The opening words of the song — "For too long we have been sleeping, but we have been afraid to dream" — came to Useche while door-knocking in East Los Angeles with film director Eric Byler (36). The two began shooting the music video two days later on Super Tuesday, while Useche was still memorizing the lyrics. Byler, best known for South by Southwest award-winners CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES and AMERICANESE, said his favorite thing about the video is the volunteerism it captures. "We are a team that includes some talented artists, but more importantly we are a group of citizens who feel a responsibility to help move this country forward."

Byler and Annabel Park (39) fly to Houston on Friday morning from Baltimore, MD. Both are Asian American filmmakers who work closely with Latinos on the immigration issue. Park and Byler are co-directors of 9500 LIBERTY, an on-going series popular on YouTube documenting the politicization of the immigration issue in Northern Virginia. 9500 LIBERTY has generated 394,000 hits since October, including 132,000 for a video in which Park compares the Latino immigration experience to her own.

"The obstacles facing the Latino community today mirror my own immigration experience as a Korean American," said Park, who moved with her family to Houston at the age of nine. Tomorrow's return to Houston will be her first in two decades.

Park and Byler began their latest YouTube series, "United For Obama," on January 14th in Las Vegas, NV. The series chronicles road-trips, canvassing, and in-language phone calls (over 20,000 to Virginia from cities around the nation) on behalf of Sen. Obama. The videos include such celebrities as Kal Penn, Kelly Hu, Kerry Washington, and Tatyana Ali. But their most popular video by far is Useche's moving ballad.

Useche joined "United For Obama" after coming across their videos on the internet. "The internet has been a crucial component in this movement, and in our case in particular," Park said. "YouTube and Facebook have allowed us to collaborate with volunteers from around the country."