Carlos David Valdes is a Colombian-American actor and singer. He is best-known for his role as Cisco Ramon / Vibe on The CW television series The Flash and other Arrowverse-related shows.
Biography
Valdes was born in Cali, Colombia but was raised in Miami, Florida by the age of 5, then moved again to Marietta, Georgia at the age of 12. He studied at the University of Michigan with actors from the theater group StarKid Productions, and co-wrote their 2009 musical Me and My Dick. Additionally he played the bass for that show as well as for A Very Potter Musical, and was featured on the track "A Thousand and One Nights " which played during the end credits of Twisted and appeared on the cover album Twisted: Twisted. After graduating in 2011, Valdes became entirely devoted to theater. Between 2009 and 2011, he participated in theatrical productions like High School Musical and The Wedding Singer. He also was a stand-in in the national tour of Jersey Boys. From March 2013 to March 2014, he played the role of Andrej in the musical Once, in which he also performed on piano, guitar, ukulele, bass, and percussion. In 2014, Valdes made his television debut in the American seriesArrow, before appearing in the spin-off series, The Flash, as a series regular in the role of Francisco "Cisco" Ramón, an engineering genius. Cisco is part of the S.T.A.R. Labs team, along with Dr. Harrison Wells and Dr. Caitlin Snow, that help Barry Allen with his superpowers. Ramon is later revealed to have metahuman powers of his own, and takes on the name Vibe. Valdes also plays Ramon's Earth-2 doppelganger, who goes by Reverb. In the dreamworld set up by Music Meister in the third season episode "Duet" Valdes played Pablo, a waiter. Valdes later played Ramon's Earth-19 doppleganger, who goes by Echo. In June 2015, Valdes voiced the character Cisco Ramon in the animated web seriesVixen. Carlos is also an accomplished songwriter, instrumentalist, and recording artist. In the fall of 2015, Carlos independently released his EP "Night Off", under his music pseudonym Tha Los.
