HAILING FROM LOS ANGELES, GABRIEL WAS BORN TO CUBAN PARENTS WITH A FONDNESS AND AN EAR FOR GOOD MUSIC. NOT JUST SON MONTUNOS, MAMBOS AND RUMBAS. BUT THE SOUTHERN FRIED FUNKY SOUL MUSIC THAT MAKES AMERICA THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. THE DIVERSE MULTI-ETHNIC GROUPS THAT DOMINATED THE AIRWAYS OF THE 60’S AND 70’S WERE AN ESCAPE FROM THE HARSH REALITIES OF A GANG AND DRUG TORN SOUTH CENTRAL L.A. THE BOSS SOUNDS OF WAR, SANTANA AND TOWER OF POWER KEPT GABRIEL GLUED TO THE RADIO. GABRIEL EVENTUALLY FOUND HIMSELF ATTENDING LOARA H. S. IN ANAHEIM. GABRIEL HAD BEEN PLAYING THE TRUMPET FOR TWO YEARS ALREADY AND WAS PLAYING IN ALL THE SCHOOL'S GROUPS. THE FAMED JEFF BUCKLEY WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING GABRIEL INTO PROGRESSIVE ROCK AND JAZZ FUSION, BUT IT WAS ERIC STEFANI THAT TURNED GABRIEL ONTO SKINHEAD REGGAE AND SKA MUSIC. ERIC AND GABRIEL FORMED A SKA BAND BY THE NAME OF APPLE CORE; THIS GROUP WAS TO EVENTUALLY BECOME NO DOUBT. AS COFOUNDER OF NO DOUBT, IT WAS GABRIEL AND CHRIS LEAL (THE BASS PLAYER) THAT CREATED THE SIGNATURE SOUND THAT WOULD LATER SECURE THE BAND’S RECORD DEAL WITH INTERSCOPE RECORDS. GABRIEL HAD PLAYED WITH APPLE CORE / NO DOUBT ON AND OFF FROM 1985 THROUGH 1991. AFTER LEAVING NO DOUBT, GABRIEL FORMED THE HORNS OF DESTRUCTION, A FOUR PIECE HORN SECTION THAT WOULD LATER PLAY WITH SEVERAL MAJOR REGGAE AND SKA GROUPS. GABRIEL CURRENTLY LIVES BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND MIAMI DIRECTING TWO GROUPS; MIDNITE SOUL PATROL WITH THE HORNS OF DESTRUCTION WHICH WAS FORMED IN THE LATE 80’S, AND THE SIN CITY STOMPERS.