Gómez has been the music director for 20 years and counting. Do you want to be my music director?' This was 2003 and I got on the next plane and came here.” "Then years go by and Carlos calls me and says, ‘hey my music director has resigned. “He introduced me to many great artists and movers and shakers in the radio industry," Gómez said. Lando mentored Gómez, and that eventually turned into another opportunity. Ultimately Gómez met Carlos Lando, who has been with KUVO jazz for almost 40 years. Gómez was told he was exactly that the station was looking for. “He said, 'no this is different, it’s a public radio station, and it’s a community station, and they’re looking for people like you who have music, know music, and want to share it." “He said, ‘I saw your record collection and I see how you love music and I see how you know a lot about music, I’m going to take you to a radio station that wants people like you,” Gómez said with a laugh. “I didn't know anything about radio, and I don’t even have a good voice for radio, so why are you going to take me and make a fool of me by taking me to a radio station?” A cousin of his took notice and offered some advice. One of Gómez's main passions in life has always been music. Following his divorce, he moved to Miami to be closer to his parents and to contemplate what to do with what he called “the last half of my life.”
Gómez was married for 19 years, has a daughter and three granddaughters. “I thought, 'if you want me to fight communists 5,000 miles away, I’d rather go to Cuba and fight communism there, since that’s part of my heritage,'” he explained, saying that eventually he and his father were able to resolve some of their differences about the war. “As time passed, he realized that I was correct in not wanting go to Vietnam because it was a useless war.” It caused a rift between him and his father, as his father wanted Gómez to enlist in the war effort because he wasn’t drafted.
In high school, Gómez was a vocal protester against the Vietnam War.
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