Rev Le Rev was born in El Paso Texas and raised in West Texas. He is the father of three adult children who live throughout the United States. Rev moved to Albuquerque NM in 1997 to pursue a career in the Arts. Rev has worked in Festival Production, Stage Production, Music Engineering, Filmmaking, Digital and Performance Art. He is notable for his didgeridoo playing which incorporates modern sounds with the ancient call of the didge. His latest artistic endeavor involves filmmaking. The micro-film series Becoming Future Man focuses on the struggles of the every man-woman-person in their attempts at remaking themselves into their imagined selves.
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In His Own Words
I am Rev Le Rev Tsolwizar. Twenty three years ago I took a left turn in Albuquerque, and now I’m living in Los Padillas, just south of the city, on a lovely oasis in the Rio Grande Valley. What brought me here was the current of life sweeping me along on a crazy circuitous path that had much less to do with my own will and far more to do with the cosmos learning me a thing or 10,000. Sometimes I like to think that I have figured it all out and have a firm grasp on my life, but I am quickly made aware that I’m just as disoriented and confused about this strange game as everyone else.
The Road of a Traveler
The way this life has played out for me has been one of taking “the road less traveled”. I began my adult life, firmly rooted in the Christian ministry, but at the end of that first decade of adulthood, tragedy struck and my whole life collapsed into a pile of rubble, leaving nothing unscathed, including my faith. Two and a half years later I set off on a cross country journey in a 1969 VW bus, in search of a new identity, which concluded with that left turn in Albuquerque. Upon my arrival, I lit up in a creative explosion, which after the initial blast has sustained my artistic energy through the past 23 years: producing a long string of performance art pieces and stage shows, co-founding and producing an annual art and music festival, directing stage and lighting for local and regional bands, running two performance spaces, igniting a creative community which flourished for over a decade, performing and touring the southwest as a musician, supporting the creation and development of two urban communal living projects, and becoming a co-steward in the creation and management of a small community farm.
Support for the Entertainers
Ah, the seeming dichotomy of it all, that is in fact, the unified wholeness of existence. I have had tremendous support from many people along the way, and this life, oddly lived in my own peculiar way, has been peppered with struggles, rewards and challenges, and eventually, fulfillments. Life is a journey consisting of all of the above, come take a walk with me, you might learn something, you might not, either way you will be thoroughly entertained!
