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Shakira leads MTV Music Awards Nominees
4:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Events| Music · Comments Off
31 Jul 2006
Colombiana pop star and nominee for VivirLatino’s Most Influential Latino 2006 Shakira is getting some other award nods, this time from the MTV Music Awards. People Magazine reports that Shaki leads the list (along with The Red Hot Chili Peppers) with 7 nominations.
MTV announced its nominees for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards on Monday, with Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers leading the list with seven nominations each.Both will compete for video of the year – the Peppers’ “Dani California” and Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” will go up against Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man,” Madonna’s “Hung Up” and Panic! At The Disco’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.”
The MTV Music Awards air at 8:00 pm ET on August 31, on MTV.
Related: Latinos nominated for MTV Music Awards (Latin Gossip)
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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 #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 #15: Carlos Slim
12:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Money| Polls2006| VivirLatino| business · 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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.
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