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Charles Karel Bouley, known on-the-air as Karel, is an American Entertainer and talk radio host and author. He began as a comic and vocalist with 1995's album "Dance...Or Else" and was signed to Jellybean Recordings under John "Jellybean" Benitez. While promoting a record he was signed to do a radio show on KYPA Los Angeles called "Different After Dark." His off-air partner Andrew Howard became his co-host and within two years the duo made history as the first openly gay radio talk show hosts on KFI in Los Angeles. in 1998. Upon Howard's unexpected death in 2001 Karel stayed at KFI for almost two years. After a shift in management at KFI Karel and others were let go but he soon landed a high profile show in the #4 Arbitron Market in the United States, San Francisco, as part of KGO. He was fired from KGO in November 2008 when an engineer left his microphone open and off-air comments were broadcast containing profanity. Bouley was forced to recreate himself, returning to stand-up comedy, writing for the HuffingtonPost and re-entering radio with a self-syndicated show heard first on Energy San Francisco and KRXA Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz. . The show airs five days a week, going nationwide after negotiating a satellite hookup with GCN, Genesis Communication Network. In November 2011, Karel returned to KGO, but he was again let go in February 2015. Bouley has been a writer since a teenager, for both local and national publications. He was a photographer and writer for the R&B Report, an entertainment reporter for Genre Magazine and The Advocate as well as a political columnist and blogger for Advocate.com. He was asked by Ariana Huffington on air to blog for her new site, the HuffingtonPost, where he has maintained a high profile column for eight years running. for ''The Huffington Post'', His editorials have appeared in ''The Wall Street Journal''. He was also an editor and columnist for ''The Advocate.com'', and a celebrity columnist and photographer for ''Billboard Magazine''. == Biography == Charles Raymond Bouley, II was born November 7, 1962, in Miami Beach, Florida, to Charles Raymond Bouley (1929-1987) and Rose Marie (née Tremblay) Bouley (1930-2003). He has been an entertainer since childhood, emceeing his first event in 7th grade, the talent show, "Car Wash", at his junior high school. While attending Long Beach Poly High School, Bouley was editor of the high school's newspaper, "High Life." 〔 and reviewing plays for his school paper for free by taking the words "high school" out of the paper's masthead and getting on all the PR lists. As a member of the press he was able to be included on press-only lists for premieres and openings in the Los Angeles area. With this type of press access, Bouley began attending stage productions and writing reviews of the shows for publication in his school and community newspapers. Unable to afford tickets to movies, he became an usher at the Long Beach Terrace Theatre so he could review the new releases.〔 Bouley attended community college in Southern California and then university on scholarship where he majored in Theatre with a minor in journalism, but left to work in the field before graduation. Karel went on to work for ''Billboard Magazine''; his affiliation with the publication gave him further access to music concerts and after-concert parties.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Karel Bouley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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