Archive for the ‘Polls2006’ Category
VivirLatino Polls : Shakira The Most Influential Latina 2006
1:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Music|Polls2006|VivirLatino · Comments Off
1 Sep 2006
Since July 17 VivirLatino has been asking you, our readers, to choose from 20 varied Latino candidates ranging from musicians to politicians to business leaders as The Most Influential Latino 2006. Nearly 2000 of you placed your votes and 35% of you chose a Colombiana whose hips don’t lie, Shakira. 31% of you chose a Boricua from the block, Jennifer Lopez.
VLMIL Candidate #20: Jorge Ramos
1:16 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Media|Polls2006|TV|VivirLatino · Comments Off
31 Jul 2006
Name: Jorge Ramos
Age: 48
Occupation: Television news anchor, journalist, author, activist
Place of residence: Miami, Florida
Bio: From his website: “Jorge Ramos has been the anchorman for Noticiero Univision since 1986. Among his many recognitions, he received the Maria Moors Cabot award from the University of Columbia and has won 8 Emmy awards for excellence in journalism (including the first one ever presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to honor leaders of Spanish Language Television).
He writes a weekly column for more than 40 newspapers in the United States and Latin America distributed by The New York Times Syndicate, provides a daily radio commentary to dozens of radio stations, collaborates with one of the largest Spanish-language websites in the world and is the author of six books, which have become bestsellers.”
VLMIL Candidate #19: Los Estefans
9:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Miami|Music|Polls2006|VivirLatino · 2 Comments
29 Jul 2006
Names: Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo and Emilio Estéfan, Jr.
Ages: She is 48 , he is 53
Occupations: She is a singer,songwriter and author. He is a musician and producer.
Place of Residence: Star Island, Miami
Bio: From Wikipedia, “Emilio Estéfan, Jr. was born March 4, 1953 and is a Cuban musician and producer of Lebanese ancestry. Estefan’s first taste of celebrity came as a member of the Miami Sound Machine, but he is currently better known as the producer of many famous singers. In 1968, Estefan moved to the United States, where he shared an apartment with 15 family members. He earned a living by running errands for neighbors, using an old car. Estefan then began to work at local beauty contests, and at Bacardi, where he was employed as a mailroom worker. He later was promoted to the company’s Latin marketing department.
Estefan’s real passion, however, remained with music. He started a group which became known as the “Miami Latin Boys”. The group had success, being hired to play at multiple private parties and events around Miami. It was during one such event in 1975 that Emilio met Gloria Estefan, then Gloria Fajardo.
VLMIL Candidate #18: Don Francisco
7:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Polls2006|TV|VivirLatino · 3 Comments
28 Jul 2006
Name: Mario Kreutzberger
Age: 65
Occupation: Television host
Place of Residence: Miami, Florida
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Don Francisco (Born on December 28, 1940 in Talca, Chile) is the artistic name of Mario Kreutzberger, a Chilean television host. He was born into a Chilean-German Jewish family; his parents had fled to Chile escaping from Nazi persecution. Back in Chile, where TV was just beginning, Don Francisco started a TV show in 1962, and he named it Sábados Gigantes. In it, he adapted many of the formulas he had seen in American TV to the Chilean public. The show became an instant hit that has lasted 40 years. In 1985, the show began to be produced in Miami, Florida, with the same formula used in Chile, with the slightly different name of Sábado Gigante. Don Francisco immediately became a household name among Latino families across the United States, and in the following five years, television networks from all over Latin America started buying the show. Spain also became a show customer during that period, and with that, 99 percent of the world’s Spanish-speaking people knew who Don Francisco was.”
VLMIL Candidate #17: The Daily Kos
1:31 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs|Internet|Politics|Polls2006|VivirLatino · Comments Off
27 Jul 2006
Name: Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
Age: 35
Occupation: Blogger, writer, activist
Place of residence: Online at DailyKos.com
Bio: From Wikipedia: “…often known by his username and former military moniker “Kos”, is the founder and main author of Daily Kos, a left-wing weblog focusing on progressive, liberal, and Democratic Party politics. Moulitsas currently resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and son.
Moulitsas was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Salvadoran mother and Greek father, and grew up in El Salvador. (Following Latin American custom, his last name is actually “Moulitsas”, not “Zúniga”.) His family moved back to the United States in 1980 due to the Salvadoran civil war. He served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992; while stationed in Germany, and after missing “by a hair” deployment to the Gulf War, he changed his political affiliation from Republican to Democrat.”
VLMIL Candidate #16: Isabel Allende
8:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Chile|literature|Polls2006|VivirLatino · Comments Off
27 Jul 2006
Name: Isabel Allende Llona
Age: 63
Occupation: Writer
Place of Residence: San Rafael, California
Bio: From Wikipedia : “Allende was born in Lima to diplomat Tomás Allende who was a Chilean ambassador there. She is the niece of Salvador Allende, the President of Chile from 1970 to 73. In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953. The family later moved to Bolivia and then to Lebanon. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Frías, whom she married in 1962. On September 11, 1973 , her uncle, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in the wake of a violent coup and during the capture of La Moneda (the seat of the presidency of Chile). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in Venezuela. In 1981, Allende learned that her grandfather, age 99, was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, The House of Spirits (1982). The book was a great success and was later made into a film (The House of the Spirits, 1993) by Danish director Bille August. The movie starred Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Glenn Close and Antonio Banderas. During a visit to California in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, a lawyer, and has lived in San Rafael since then. In 2003 she obtained U.S. citizenship.”
VLMIL Candidate #15: Carlos Slim
12:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business|Money|Polls2006|VivirLatino · 3 Comments
26 Jul 2006
Name: Carlos Slim Helú
Age: 66
Occupation: Billionaire businessman
Place of Residence: Mexico City
Bio: Carlos Slim Helú was born the son of Lebanese immigrant shop owners in Mexico City. From Wikipedia: “His father Julián Slim (Yusef Salim) Haddad, a Lebanese Maronite Christian, fled as a teenager to Mexico City in 1902, to escape the harsh military rule of the Ottoman Turks. Julián established a dry goods store called La Estrella del Oriente (Star or the Orient) in 1911, and shrewdly bought up some prime real estate in the city centre. Julián married the daughter of another prosperous Lebanese merchant, and had six children, of which Carlos was the fifth.”
VLMIL Candidate #14: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|literature|Polls2006|VivirLatino · Comments Off
26 Jul 2006
Name: Gabriel José García Márquez
Age: 78
Occupation: Novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist
Place of Residence:Bogota, Mexico City,Cuernavaca, Barcelona, Paris, Havana, Cartagena, and Barranquilla
Bio: From The Modern World,”Gabriel José García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents in a house filled with countless aunts and the rumors of ghosts.” It was perhaps this background that led to Gabo being credited with introducing magical realism. Via Wikipedia, “García Márquez began his career as a reporter and editor for regional newspapers—El Heraldo in Barranquilla and El Universal in Cartagena. Later he moved to Bogotá and worked for the daily El Espectador, then worked as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York City. His most commercially successful novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) (1967; English translation by Gregory Rabassa 1970), has sold more than ten million copies. It chronicles several generations of the Buendía family who live in a fictional South American village called Macondo. García Márquez won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1972 for One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, with his short stories and novels cited as the basis for the award.”
VLMIL Candidate #13: Luis Miguel
2:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Polls2006|VivirLatino · Comments Off
25 Jul 2006
Name: Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri
Age: 36
Occupation: Pop singer
Place of Residence: Acapulco, Mexico
Bio: From Wikipedia: ..”a Mexican pop singer best known for his crooning vocals and romantic ballads. He has been the most popular singer in Latin America since the late 1980′s. He is commonly referred to as El Sol (“The Sun”) and is also nicknamed “El Rey” (The King), Luismi, Micky, “El Idolo” and “Luismi Rey.”
Luis Miguel has won some of the most prestigious music awards, such as: nine Grammys (5 Grammys, 4 Latin Grammys); a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the age of 26 and three World Music Awards. Luis Miguel holds the record as the best-selling living performing Latin artist in history. Luis Miguel has sold over 55 million albums worldwide and he is the best selling Spanish-language artist in the history of the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Luis Miguel holds the record for the artist with the most #1 singles in the history of Billboard charts Hot Latin Tracks.”
VLMIL Candidate #12: Evo Morales
8:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia|Politics|Polls2006|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
25 Jul 2006
Name: Juan Evo Morales Ayma (Aima)
Age: 46
Occupation: President of Bolivia
Place of Residence: La Paz
Bio:
Juan Evo Morales Aima was born October 26, 1959 in the community of Isallavi, Orinoco, Oruro to Aymara parents Dionisio Morales Choque and Maria Mamani. From a young age Evo worked with his family as a farmer. After a high school trip to the Presidential Palace in La Paz, Evo told his classmates, “One day I will be president and you will be my ministers”. After serving in a military, growing coca , Evo became a union leader. It was here when he became a coca activist, and was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in both 1995 and 1996. From here Evo earned a seat in the Bolivian Congress. In January 2002, Morales was removed from his seat in Congress, because of a charge of terrorism related to anti-eradication riots in Sacaba that month in which four coca farmers, three military soldiers and a police officer were killed. The U.S. was accused of being behind his expulsion. From here he ran for President. In 2002 he came in second place. In 2005 he won.
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