Murgo Gabriel ‘21 (L) and Ravi Alston ‘21
Saint John’s University senior Communication major Gabriel Murgo dedicated countless hours in the Bill Kling Lab over the last four years to building G’NICETV from the ground up.
In Feburary 2021, Murgo officially launched G’NICETV LLC. with the help of Johnnie alum Bob Foster. Murgo describes G’NICETV as a multi-media entertainment platform that focuses on pop culture, hip-hop, rap, R&B, sports, fashion, comedy and food.
“I want to be able to create content that’s dope for the culture and subcultures through my different digital web series,” Murgo said of his “Wuss Da Deal” series, where he conducts interviews of up-and-coming artists all around the country before they hit the mainstream. Murgo has done interviews with artists from California, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey and Chicago, but he especially likes to focus on artists from his hometown – San Bernardino, California – to bring positivity to his community and give those individuals growing up in that environment a platform to display their work and talents.
“G’NICETV has a real creative, authentic way to create positive content, and if I can do that coming from a rough environment why not do it? I will never forget where I came from,” Murgo said.
Murgo and producer Yike Mike
He also has created the “Ya Heard Me” podcast, on which he interviews artists, comedians and NFL athletes to talk about their experiences growing up, how they got to where they are now, and just to have good conversations on how they feel about things that are going on in the world. The podcast streams on nine different platforms.
Murgo has learned a lot during his time at CSB/SJU. He took an intercultural communication course where he learned about different cultures and subcultures, and he compares that learning to his own G’NICETV platform.
“That learning is no different from G’NICETV,” he said. “It gives you an insight of people from different backgrounds and how they express their backgrounds through their sense of creativity. It doesn’t matter if you’re Hispanic, Asian, Black, Hawaiian or whatever – we like to highlight entertainment that comes from those cultures and show it in a positive manner.”
Check out what G’NICETV has to offer on YouTube and the nine platforms that host his podcasts to get an inside look at the work he has created during his time at Saint John’s.
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About the Author:
Ravi Alston is a senior Johnnie majoring in Global Business leadership. He is a student intern with the Saint John’s University Institutional Advancement team for the spring 2021 semester.