William Levy
William Levy
Cuban actor William Levy has been chosen as one of the sexiest and more requested bachelors by People Magazine, in its Spanish edition. After having got a secondary role, he joined the staff of stars, impersonatiing “German”, the star’s best friend, in the TV soap opera “Olvidarte jamas”, broadcasted by Venevision, at 1 p.m.
William Levy was born in Cojimar, Cuba, whose full name is William Levy Gutiérrez (Born August 29, 1980) is a Cuban-American actor and former model.
He is of Jewish ancestry on his paternal grandfather’s side. William Levy migrated to Miami, Florida, when he was 14. He attended high school, after which he studied business administration on a baseball scholarship. He subsequently went to Los Angeles to study acting and continued his acting studies in Miami and Mexico City (CEA, Televisa).
William Levy worked as a model for the agency Next Models and was featured later in two reality shows broadcast by Telemundo: Isla de la Tentación and Protagonistas de Novela. In 2005 he performed at the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan Puerto Rico, starring in the play La Nena Tiene Tumbao.
His first debut on the Spanish language channel Univision was in the Venevision International production of Olvidarte Jamas. He later appeared in Mi Vida Eres Tu and Acorralada.
In 2008, he appeared in his first film Retazos de Vida directed by Viviana Cordero.
He was invited by television producer Carla Estrada to star in Pasión, his breakthrough in Mexican soap operas. His performance was so well received that Televisa later cast him as the lead in Cuidado con el Angel with actress and ex-RBD singer Maite Perroni. The show was first broadcast in Mexico in June 2008 and began airing in the United States in September 2008 on Univision. It averaged 45.7 million viewers per evening.
William Levy finished filming Sortilegio with actress Jacqueline Bracamontes on October 9, 2009 Sortilegio aired on Univision, and the finale drew 6.6 million viewers, beating ABC and CBS.
In November 2009, the actor lent his voice to the animated movie Planet 51 in its Spanish version. The movie opened on November 27 in Mexico and won an award for best animated Spanish-language film of 2009 (Premios Goya) From November 2009 to February 2010, William Levy toured several Mexican cities with the play Un Amante a la Medida, which later toured in the United States in June 2010.
William Levy is currently shooting the Mexican telenovela Triunfo del Amor, a remake of the Venezuelan classic Cristal, in which he once again shares credits with Maite Perroni. The telenovela aired on October, 25, 2010 in El Canal de las Estrellas. Pedro Torres, executive producer of Mujeres Asesinas, confirmed William Levy’s role in the third season of the popular Mexican series.
William Levy stars as Jennifer Lopez’s love interest in her music video I’m Into You, from her album Love?. It aired on the NBC Today Show on May 2, 2011.
William Levy and Maite Perroni will co-host the 25th Hispanic Heritage Awards gala on September 15, 2011, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
William Levy appeared on the cover of People en Español, which selected him for its special issue on the sexiest men of the year.
Personal life
In 2003, he began a relationship with Mexican-American actress Elizabeth Gutiérrez. The two met during their participation on Protagonistas de Novela 2. In 2006, they had a son, Christopher Alexander. On March 6, 2010, Gutierrez gave birth to a daughter, Kailey Alexandre. In press releases issued in May 2011, William Levy and Gutierrez announced they had ended their 8-year relationship.
On July 11, 2009, William Levy converted to Catholicism.
On August 17, 2010, a female minor filed a lawsuit against William Levy in Los Angeles alleging that William Levy had sexually abused her. William Levy has denied the allegations and countersued for $10 million alleging extortion and defamation.
Once his first work in a dramatic broadcast was over, his physical appeal and his acting potential opened him the doors to another great opportunity in his career when he was casted for the soap opera “Mi vida eres tu” where he plays a rich and cocky high class young man.
Later on, his career starts taking the tracks he wishes the most. He then accepts a new challenge in the project “Acorralada”, a drama by Venevision Productions, Miami, where he plays a starring role, closer to his utmost goal: get the leading role in a TV soap opera.
“I think that I am going to get it soon. I even received a proposition to have a leading role in Colombia, but I was already engaged with ‘Acorralada'”, he says while he gets his order in a Miami restaurant.
William Levy “as a kid I used to join some friends in a government-owned farm and steal fruits”
It’s 1 o’clock in the afternoon in this American city. Before having his lunch, William Levy faces the interview as a therapy. He laughs out loud at each question and at each answer. The actor, who came out of the reality show “Protagonistas de novela”, warned me once he accepted to answer the questionary. “You are going to put me in some big trouble, but I am going to go to Venezuela to look for you, and I am going to… “, he added.
He said that this is the first time he is asked so many “hot” questions for the public to know, but he finally agreed to talk to Facetas about his intimate moments, and he revealed the words he likes his wife to tell him in bed.
“To answer your questions I have to be very careful in order not to affect other people or myself with what I am going to say”
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Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot (born March 23, 1963 in Palma Soriano) is a female athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m.
Quirot won a silver medal at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Athletics and a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. However the following year she was involved in a horrific domestic accident that left her seriously injured. She was pregnant at the time and gave birth to her daughter prematurely in hospital while fighting for her life. Her daughter did not survive and died a week after she was born.
Chucho Valdes
Chucho Valdes
Chucho Valdes (real name Jesús Dionisio Valdés in Quivicán, Cuba, October 9, 1941) is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he created the group Irakere, one of Cuba’s best-known Latin jazz bands. With pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba’s greatest jazz pianists. His father is another famed Cuban pianist and former director of Havana’s famous “Tropicana” night club band Bebo Valdés.
Chucho has won 4 Grammy awards: in 1978 for the album Live at Newport by Irakere; in 1998 for his contribution to the CD Havana by his band Crisol (formed in 1997), with two songs Mr. Bruce and Mambo para Roy written by Chucho in 2003 for his album Live at the Village Vanguard; and in 2011 for his album Chucho Steps. Chucho Valdes by his Piano
On 16 October 2006, Chucho Valdes was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations
Renowned the world over as a musical giant, the six and a half foot tall Chucho Valdes physical stature apes his musical accomplishment. The Afro-Cuban musician has been the recipient of five Grammy Award nominations and two Grammys. His fascinating blend of African, South American, Cuban, and Spanish musical traditions seemed to rate a category of music all its own, and was just beginning to garner wide recognition in the United States in the late 1990s. In 1996 Valdes played on Roy Hargrove’s widely acclaimed album Crisol, and numerous U.S. concert dates and a North American record contract followed.
Musicians in Cuba were not officially permitted to perform in the United States until 1988. Most Cuban musicians, including Valdes’s father, overcame that obstacle by defecting. But Valdes, who remained in his own country, was loved not only for his musical genius, but also for the fact that unlike so many musicians, he chose to continue living in Havana, claiming it as his permanent home. Despite the fact that the Cuban government has presented Valdés’s success as one of its own, many Cuban people viewed Valdés as “one of them,” and therefore, his success as their own.
Video Chucho Valdes playing piano
Chucho Valdes is by far one of Cuba`s most famous musicians
Chucho Valdes
Paulito FG | Paulo FG y La Banda
Paulito FG
Known as a great musician, an all round artist who has build up his career with profound intelligence, incontestable amount of talent and artistic devotion in each performance.
Paulo Alfonso Fernandez Gallo, was born in HavanaCuba, at the age of 19, Paulito FG started clarinet classes in the conservatorium Ignacio Cervantes. The exceptional sound of his voice impressed those around him and won him a reference to Benny More music records producers, beginning, thus, his career as a professional singer. He participated in 1986 with Adalberto Alvarez y su Son in the Varadero International Festival. 2 years later, he was already the lead singer of the group Dan Den, (lead by Juan Carlos Alfonso) where two of his themes “El Humo o la Vida” and “Siempre hay un Ojo que te Ve” shot him to stardom. He released in 1991,with Opus 13 (under maestro Joaquin Betancourt) a first album containing mostly songs written by him. A year after, he went on a highly praised Mexico Tour and at his return created his own group called Paulito FG y su Élite which debuted on april 19 at Neptuno Hotel, La Habana The new 1993 band’s first album “Tu no Me Calculas” is released in Havana and Tokio at the same time, resulting in a smashing success.
He signed a deal with Magic Music record company In 1994 based in Barcelona and records his second album “Sofocándote” which remained lodged at the top of the national charts for a record 22 consecutive weeks. Paulito FG s third album ” El bueno soy yo ” received unparalleled success, which won him an EGREM Awards as Best Dance Music and Popular categories of the year. He released his fourth album with Fania Records In 1997, ” Con la Conciencia Tranquila “. again, many of his songs remain atop the Cuban and international charts. The next year, he released an homage album dedicated to Puerto Rican salsero Tito Puente where he includes boleros and guarachas from the 60′s. Another greatly acclaimed album is released 2000, the disc ” Una Vez Mas por Amor “. The seventh album ” Te deseo Suerte “, an overwhelming success both nationally and internationally, was released in 2002. Paulito FG since 1992 has been taking his music to worldwide stages of 20 countries with chart-topping songs in New York, Miami and Bogota, reported by Latin Beat magazine. The songs have been performed by important salsa stars such as, Jhonny Rivera and Isidro Infante. In Cuba, based on public polls, Paulito remained the most popular singer from 1992 until to today. Now, his mature work can be illustrious by well-studied melodic lines, unconventional rhythmic passages, a restrained rock energy, and lyrics that are faithful chronicles of our times, yet refuse to yield to simplistic formulas or vulgarity. Paulito FG conveys the articulateness of Cuba´s streets, the lively popular poetry, and reality. His victorious fusion of music genres such as rock, balada, jazz and son amounts to a great blend of original lyrics. Paulito FG he’s a music artist, to his public, the most well-liked of current times and to him, an unalterable movie fan and a Jazz loyal fan. Above all things, Paulo is highly respectful of his public and an unconditional music lover”.
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Paulito FG
Ana Margarita Martínez Casado
Ana Margarita Martínez Casado (born Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado y Torralbas on May 4, 1930 in Camagüey, Cuba) is a well-known Cuban actress and singer. Martinez-Casado was born into one of Cuba’s theatrical families. That family started with her great-grandfather who owned a theater. His daughter Luisa has a theater in Cuba named after her. Martinez-Casado’s grandparents, Manolo Martinez-Casado and Celia Adams were both actors, as were their eight children.
Sissi | Isabel Fleitas
Sissi Isabel Fleitas
Cuban model, columnist and TV hostess Sissi Isabel Fleitas was born on October 13th, 1975 in Havana, Cuba, but she is better known as Sissi. Sissi Isabel Fleitas started modeling at the age of four, and started her TV career at the age of fifteen.
If you ever watched Univision’s Sabado Gigante with Don Francisco, you already know who Sissi Isabel Fleitas is.
She started her professional career in her native Cuba when she was only 4 years old. At 15 she started her television career in the TV show Sabado Conmigo for the TV station Cubavision.
In 1998 Sissi Isabel Fleitas joined Univision, the most important Hispanic television channel in the United States opened its doors to her in the show Sabado Gigante. For more than 8 years Sissi Isabel Fleitas showed her beauty and versatility have been admired in more than 100 million households each Saturday, sharing the stage with Don Francisco presenting dozens of television specials making her an international celebrity.
In 2005, after 8 successful years working with Don Francisco, Sissi Isabel Fleitas shows a new side to her launching a musical production. From 2006 to 2007, Sissi Isabel Fleitas presents “Challenge 20-06, The Great Adventure”, a reality show produced by Caracol Television USA and Latin America with a budget of 5 million dollars. After the success of this production she signs a contract with Television Española to do the Gong Show (2007), an international television broadcast aired in prime time for TVE International, keeping her in her mother country for more than a year.
Among the grand events that have been hosted by Sissi Isabel Fleitas are: The Fox Awards, The Acapulco Festival (Televisa), The Viña Sea Festival (Channel 13 Chile-Univision). At the same time, Sissi Isabel Fleitas has also hosted tele-marathons such as the ones done in Panama, Honduras, Chile, El Salvador and Ecuador.
Fact: Sissi Isabel Fleitas was voted one of the 50 most beautiful “People en Espanol” in 2000
With thousands of hours of air time in a wide number of diverse shows and formats, Sissi Isabel Fleitas is among the most recognized faces in the world of Hispanic entertainment. She has appeared in numerous magazines such as Maxim en español, People en español, Glamour, and Shape. People magazine selected her as one of the most beautiful Hispanic women in the world, and her calendar was a bestseller in the U.S. Sissi Isabel Fleitas is also recognized as one of the few Hispanic women whose name appears among the largest retail chains in the U.S. such as Wal-Mart, CVS and Walgreens, establishing herself as a focal figure in numerous retail product lines, among them Sissi Latin Beauty and Sissy Hair Accessories all products endorsed by Sissi Isabel Fleitas
Cuban-born model, Sissi Isabel Fleitas replaced co-host Lili Estefan upon her departure from “Sabado Gigante”. Well-known for her, tall Nordic looks, Sissi Isabel Fleitas has gained fame as one of the hostesses on the long running variety show. In addition, she has a best-selling calendar that has sold more than 500,000 in the past two years.
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Elena Burke
Elena Burke (born Romana Elena Burgues Gonzalez on February 28, 1928 in Havana, Cuba – June 9, 2002 in Havana, Cuba) was a revered and popular Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads.[1]
She started her career by working in radio in the 1940s but began to work with smaller groups in the 1950s. In 1952, pianist and arranger Aida Diestro organized the vocal quartet called Cuarteto d’Aida. The original members were Elena Burke, Moraima Secada, Omara Portuondo and Haydée Portuondo. After she got some attention, she went solo. By the time of the Cuban revolution she was a top solo artist performing in elegant cabarets in Havana. Her voice seemed to become stronger with age, as her subtle yet sophisticated technique graced every song she sang with an emotional weight. Over the years she has performed with top Cuban dance bands such as Orquesta Aragón and with highly acclaimed singer-songwriters, including Pablo Milanés. She certainly could “take a sad song and make it better”, piercing the emotional veil of her audience with an almost palpable sincerity. Though she mostly interpreted classic Cuban boleros and Son, her versions were distinct, supported by top-notch musicians and arrangements. She was the mother of Malena Burke and grandmother of Lena, also well known Cuban singers.
Maria Conchita
María Conchita Alonso (born June 29, 1957) Cienfuegos, Cuba, better known as María Conchita, is a Venezuelan Grammy Award–nominated singer and actress.
María Conchita Alonso was born María Concepción Alonso Bustillo in Cienfuegos, Cuba, the daughter of Ricardo Alonso and Maria Conchita Bustillo. Her family moved to Venezuela when she was five years old, in 1962. She had her first experience in show business when she was crowned Miss Teenager of the World in 1971, and was Miss World/Venezuela in 1975 where she became sixth runner-up in the Miss World pageant won by Puerto Rico’s Wilnelia Merced; she quickly became a top model and a popular singer/actress in Venezuela.
