Vincent Veloso is an Asian Filipino-American actor, model, multi-award winning writer/producer/director, martial artist, trained salsa ballroom dancer, entrepreneur, and 17-instrument performing musician.
Originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey, he was interested in music and acting at a young age, eventually attending NYU's jazz studies program. He has studied music with renowned musicians and actors, including Ted Nash, Ralph Lalama, Vincent Herring, Steve Coleman, Jerome Callet, Kenny Werner, and George Garzone.
Since 1995, Vincent has worked with many established Latin Alternative/rock en español crowd, as well as respected jazz musicians, swing, and funk acts. He has collaborated with King Chango, Ozomatli, Los Pericos, Los Amigos Invisibles, Pacha Massive, Control Machete, Javier Garcia, Yerba Buena, Sidestepper, Sean Lennon, Jaron Lanier, Badawi, Frank Foster, "Alkebulan" Rodriguez, Jazz Sawyer, Kaleta, DJ Logic, DJ Spooky, DJ Olive, DJ Kenny Summit, DJ Cleveland, DJ Tony Touch, M'lumbo, Dave Stryker, George Garzone, Joe Shepley, Donald Byrd, Bryan Lynch, Bobby Sanabria, Arturo O'farrill, Sunny Jain, Victor Barrientos, Dennis Davis, Tootes & the Maytails, Nick Palumbo & the Flipped fedoras, Dean Shot & the blues Revue, Si Se, Atercielados, Avatar, Brenda K Starr, and many others.
Performance highlights include headlining the 2002 Montreal Jazz Festival with the Venezuelan group King Chango and many world tours with King Chango and Pacha Massive.
Vincent was a professor at the Academy of Music of Ramapo College from 1999 to 2006, where he taught winds and music theory, and was a brass instructor, drill writer/arranger, then assistant director and finally the Corps Director for the Crimson Kings Drum, Fife & Bugle Corps between 2009 and 2019.
Vince is also featured on a number of music and commercial recordings and films as a musician, music composer, and screenwriter.
After appearing in several short films in the late 90's, Vincent began a more serious acting career in 2009 after his friend, singer/actress Margarita Martirosyan asked him if he could play bass and accompany her on a commercial audition. Vincent has since made several TV and film appearances, and has directed films like Watson (2015) and shows including the SAG new media series Changelings (2013),which he wrote, executive produced, and directed.
Changelings season 1 featured Jacob Berger and Karlee Perez, and won a multitude of awards and accolades. Changelings season 2 episode "Aswang" features Catherine Curtin, Eric Roberts, and Playboy Playmate Stormi Maya, and won best sci-fi FX supernatural series and best actor (Catherine Curtin) at the 2017 U.A.S.E supported by HBO/Cinemax.
Vincent acted alongside Sean Patrick Flannery, Michael Jai White, and Mark Dacascos and did stunt work in "Assault on VA-33", now on The Roku Channel. He is Officer Stevens in the film "Equal Standard" with Ice-T & Treach, and is the cartoon voice of Edward Chin in "Ethan Art Venture" on Kweli TV.
He joined the voice cast of the Ambie award nominee "What Happened in Skinner?", the thriller, mystery podcast featured as Spotify's top 5 best new audio dramas.
As an Entrepreneur, Vincent is an Executive Producer of Xavmax Multimedia Productions LLC and the founder of Vincent Veloso Marketing, the number one North Jersey E-com IG agent for Survivalist e-commerce stores. He has been trained by Anik Singal, Ed Mylett, and mentored by @jasoncapital.
As a philanthropist, he has worked with Society's Choice and Kiss the Monkeys, Unicef, Hope for paws, and the Red Cross.
