PELAYO AF

Poet

Pelayo AF is a New York–based cabaret artist who writes songs like poems and performs poems like confessions. Moving between Spanish and English, his work blends music, theater, and surreal storytelling to question reality, intimacy, and the quiet violence of modern life.

On stage, he turns everyday moments into something mythic: a breakup becomes a ritual, a job becomes a funeral, a joke becomes a mirror. His performances are intimate, theatrical, and slightly unhinged, inviting audiences to feel, laugh, and confront themselves at the same time.

His work lives in the tension between humor and truth, where fiction is not an escape, but a way to get closer to what’s real.