 He is considered a maestro de flamenco in the Philippines.In an hour-long broadcast devoted to Asia on September 24, 2013, Spanish Radio and Television Corp. (RTVE) described Gómez Rivera as a "writer, journalist, historian...[who] has tracked incessantly Hispanic legacy in the Philippines and has recovered part of an endangered folklore.During the same broadcast, RTVE played songs from an LP of rare Filipino compositions in Spanish that Gómez Rivera recorded in 1960 and reissued in 2006 after it had been digitally remastered.