Archive for the ‘Polls2006’ Category
VLMIL Candidate #11: Carlos Santana
4:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 1 Comment
24 Jul 2006
Name: Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
Age: 59
Occupation: Musician
Place of Residence: Marin County, California
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Santana was born to Jose Santana and Josefina Barragan in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico, and has two brothers – Antonio and Jorge – and four sisters – Laura, Irma, Leticia, and Maria. Carlos’ father played the violin,and was a part of a mariachi troupe. Young Carlos continued the family’s musical heritage, originally learning the violin before switching to the guitar when he was eight years old. After a family move to Tijuana Carlos performed occasionally with his fathers mariachi group on violin but grew to dislike it. Santana later played bass and guitar in strip clubs and bars in the Tijuana area and began his love of the American Blues, R&B, and Rock & Roll of B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. He was particularly impressed with a local blues guitar player, Javier Batiz. He remained in Tijuana when his family moved to San Francisco, California, but joined them at the age of thirteen.”
VLMIL Candidate #10: Juanes
12:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 1 Comment
24 Jul 2006
Name: Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez
Age: 33
Occupation: singer, songwriter, guitarist
Place of Residence: Miami and Medellín
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, is a Colombian singer ,songwriter and guitarist born in Medellín. When he was younger, his father started calling him Juanes, rather than Juan, a contraction of his two first names Juan and Esteban. As his friends grew to know him by this name, he chose to keep it for his musical career, which started when he, Andrés García, Fernando “Toby” Tobón and José David Lopera, formed the rock band Ekhymosis.” Juanes went solo in 2000 after the band broke up. His debut album, Fijate Bien earned him three Latin Grammys. In the 2005 Latin Grammys, Juanes won three additional awards to his nine previous Grammy awards. Juanes just completed his world wide “Mi Sangre” tour and is resting up, but first he became a Knight in France.
VLMIL Candidate #9: Salma Hayek
4:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Polls2006| VivirLatino · Comments Off
21 Jul 2006
Name: Salma Hayek Jimenez
Age: 39
Occupation: Actress and Producer
Place of Residence: Los Angeles
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico to a Lebanese father and a Mexican mother. Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau Louisiana, at the age of 12. She was also an accomplished gymnast, with aspirations of becoming an Olympic competitor.
After leaving the school due to alleged behavioral problems with the religious sisters who ran the school, Hayek returned to Mexico for a period, but then she was sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17. She subsequently moved to Mexico City for college, where she studied International Relations. To the chagrin of her family, she decided to drop out in order to pursue a career as an actress.”
VLMIL Candidate #8: Alberto Gonzales
7:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics| Polls2006| VivirLatino · Comments Off
21 Jul 2006
Name: Alberto R. Gonzales
Age: 50
Occupation: Attorney General of the United States
Place of Residence: Washington D.C.
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Gonzales was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Humble, near Houston. He was the second of eight children born to Pablo and Maria Gonzales. His father, who died in 1982, was a construction worker. Both his parents were children of immigrants from Mexico with less than a high-school education themselves; in the midst of a national debate in the US about immigration from Mexico, Gonzales told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that no immigration documentation exists for three of his grandparents and they may have entered and resided in the United States illegally” But that never stopped Gonzales from moving forward. A veteran of the Air Force and the only one of his siblings to graduate from college, Gonzales graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982. When he was appointed general counsel to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, that paved the way for a career with the shrub, becoming Texas Secretary of State in 1997 and finally to be named to the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, both appointments made by Governor Bush.
VLMIL Candidate #7: Shakira
1:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 1 Comment
20 Jul 2006
Name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Age: 29
Occupation: Singer
Place of Residence: Miami and Colombia
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia to a Colombian mother Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado of Catalan descent and an American-born father William Mebarak Chadid of Lebanese-Macedonian descent. She was one of seven siblings, one of which is her road manager. Shakira began writing and composing music at the age of eight.” And Shakira’s been writing and performing ever since. She hit the big time in Latin America in the 90s, and really made her mark on the world when she decided to take the plunge and record an English language version of her hit album “Donde están los ladrones”. From there, Shakira has risen to the level of international music icon, taking her place among the biggest stars in pop music, and boasting pop history’s most played song.
VLMIL Candidate #6: Daddy Yankee
10:42 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 5 Comments
20 Jul 2006
Name: Daddy Yankee aka Raymond Ayala aka El Cangri
Age:29
Occupation:Reggaeton recording artist, business man, actor, radio host
Place of Residence: Puerto Rico
Bio:From Daddy Yankee’s Website and Wikipedia: Raymond Ayala was born and raised in Las Lamas and Villa Kennedy barrios of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Since the early 1990’s Daddy Yankee worked alongside DJ Playero in P.R. rapping and making music in the genre that would blow up to become reggaeton, that is both loved and hated. Living in the Rican barrio ain’t never been easy and young Raymond did what he had to to survive. When he was shot in the leg between the ages of 16-17 in the hood, he decided to dedicate his life to music. He helped pushed the once undergorund/Rican-centric music into the mainstream and even crossover. He is the first reggaeton artsita to go platinum and international. This thanks in part to the single Gasolina from his 2004 album Barrio Fino. To date he has appeared in over 70 albums, is starring in a movie, is launching his own clothing line, and hosts a syndicated radio show.
VLMIL Candidate #5: Cristina Saralegui
12:58 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Polls2006| TV| VivirLatino · 3 Comments
19 Jul 2006
Name: Cristina Saralegui
Age: 58
Occupation: Talk show host, journalist, media mogul
Place of Residence: Miami, Florida
Bio: From IMDB: “Born January 29, 1948 in Havana Cuba, Cristina was brought up in the strict image of her grandfather, magazine publisher Don Francisco Saralegui, known throughout Latin America as “The Paper Czar.” He introduced young CRISTINA to journalism. In 1960, at the age of 11, Cristina left Cuba to start anew in Miami’s Cuban exile community. She attended the University of Miami, majoring in mass communications and creative writing, while beginning an internship with Vanidades, the #1 women’s magazine in Latin America.”
After rising through the ranks at Vanidades, Cristina went on to become the Editor-in-Chief Of Cosmopolitan en Español, then decided to try her luck at television. Her talk show, “El Show de Cristina” became an instant success, propelling her into stardom and taking her place as “The Hispanic Oprah”. Her show has been on the air for almost 20 years and shows no sign of losing steam, and neither does Cristina.
VLMIL Candidate #4: Hugo Chavez
7:22 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics| Polls2006| Venezuela| VivirLatino · Comments Off
19 Jul 2006
Name: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Age: 54
Occupation: President of Venezuela
Place of Residence: Caracas, Venezuela
Bio: From Wikipedia:
Born July 28, 1954, Chavez is the 53rd and current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” Chávez promotes his vision of democratic socialism, Latin American integration, and what he terms anti-imperialism. He is also a radical critic of neoliberal globalization and United States foreign policy. Chávez’s far-reaching reforms have evoked exceptional controversy in Venezuela and abroad, receiving both criticism and praise. Venezuelans are split between those who say he has empowered the poor, and those who say he is autocratic and has mismanaged the economy. Some foreign governments view Chávez as a threat to global oil prices and regional stability, while others welcome his bilateral trade and reciprocal aid agreements.
VLMIL Candidate #3: Fidel Castro
1:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba| Politics| Polls2006| VivirLatino · 2 Comments
18 Jul 2006
Name: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Age: 79
Occupation: President of Cuba
Place of Residence: La Habana, Cuba
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on a sugar plantation in Birán, near Mayarí, in the modern-day province of Holguín – then a part of the now-defunct Oriente province. He was the third child born to Ángel Castro y Argiz, a Spanish immigrant who became relatively prosperous through hard work in the sugar industry and shrewd investments.”
As we all know, the rest is history. From these seemingly modest beginnings, Castro rose to power in the island of Cuba. Depending on whom you ask, this marks either a very bad or a very glorious moment in history. Enough said.
VLMIL Candidate #2: Jennifer Lopez
12:21 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Entrepreneurs| Fashion| Movies| Music| Polls2006| VivirLatino| Women · Comments Off
18 Jul 2006
Name: Jennifer Lopez aka J-Lo.
Age: 36
Occupation: Singer, actress, dancer, designer
Place of Residence: Los Angeles and New York City
Bio: Jenny from the block was born Jennifer Lynn Lopez in the Castle Hill section of the boogie down Bronx to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and David Lopez. She has two hermanas, Lynda and Leslie. Jenny from the block was educated in Catholic schools and paid for her own singing and dancing lessons since she was 16. She completed one semester at City Univeristy of NY Baruch College before leaving to persue her dreams of dancing and acting.
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