Charles Karel Bouley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American music journalist and radio show host
Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1962
Place of Birth: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Profession: radio personality
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Charles Karel Bouley
- Charles Karel Bouley, known on-the-air as Karel (pronounced ka-REL), is an American Entertainer, talk radio host, Singer, TV Personality, Stage Performer, Journalist 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 life partner off-air, Andrew Howard became his co-host on-air and within two years the duo made history as the first openly gay radio talk show hosts on KFI in Los Angeles.
- in 1998.
- Howard, already suffering from AIDS, died suddenly of a blood clot 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 show in San Francisco, the #4 Arbitron Market in the United States, on radio station KGO.
- He was fired from KGO in November 2008 when an engineer left his microphone open and his profane off-air comments about Joe the Plumber were broadcast live.
- Bouley was forced to re-invent 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 aired 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 when Cumulus Media fired most of the staff.
- In 2008 he started podcasting and his show has expanded to TV and OTT.
- He continues to record as well. Bouley has been a writer since he was 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 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.
- His first book, "You Can't Say That" was published by Alyson Publications, his second, "Shouting At Windmills, BS From Bush to Obama" through Amazon.
- He continues working actively in all media.
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