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Luz Odilia Font
Luz Odilia Font ( Arocho; November 11, 1929 – February 9, 2022) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was perhaps better remembered for her role as "Clara" in the 2013 Puerto Rican film production, "The Condemned (2013 film), The Condemned". Life and career Born in San Sebastián, the daughter of a social worker mother, Font enjoyed music since an early age. At age nine, Font began a formal training in music by taking musical classes. Her family later moved to the San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santurce, where they were neighbors with Manuel Mendez Ballester, a very well known playwright of the era. Ballester discovered her and he invited her to a radio show he produced at the time, named "La Escuela del Aire" ("School on Air"). Font eventually graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with an associate degree, hoping to follow that with a degree in psychology. Before that could happen, she met her future husband, Luis Alberto Font. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
San Sebastián (, ) is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northwestern region of the island, south of Isabela, Quebradillas and Camuy; north of Las Marías; east of Moca and Añasco; and west of Lares. San Sebastián is spread over twenty-four barrios and San Sebastián Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is a principal city of the Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastián Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Permission to found the town was officially granted in 1752, under the leadership of founder, Captain Cristóbal González de la Cruz, who among other residents had an interest in converting some cow farms into an agricultural village. The foundation of the town from the religious aspect, was consummated in December 1762 by Mariano Martin, the island catholic bishop at that time. At the beginning, by 1700, San Sebastián was a conglomerate of a few cow farms, owned by some residents of the Partido de Aguada. Las Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Hernández Marín
Rafael Hernández Marín (October 24, 1892 – December 11, 1965) was a Puerto Rican songwriter and the author of hundreds of popular songs in the Latin American repertoire. He specialized in Cuban styles, such as the canción, bolero and guaracha. Among his most famous compositions are "Lamento Borincano,” "Capullito de alhelí,” "Campanitas de cristal,” "Cachita,” " Silencio,” "El cumbanchero,” "Ausencia,” and "Perfume de gardenias.” Career Early years Rafael Hernández Marín was born in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, into a poor family, on October 24, 1892. His parents were María Hernández Marín and Miguel Angel Rosa, though he was given only his mother's surname. As a child, he learned the craft of cigar making, from which he made a modest living. He also grew to love music and asked his parents to permit him to become a full-time music student. When he was 12 years old, Hernández studied music in San Juan, under the guidance of music professors J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Births
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Puerto Ricans
This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Rican citizens are included, as the government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007. Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans. The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Anderson
Axel Anderson (December 11, 1929 – December 16, 2012) was a German actor who was very popular in his adopted homeland of Puerto Rico. Biography Early life Anderson was born Axel Levy to a Jewish family in Berlin, Weimar Republic, Germany. In 1936 Anderson's family escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Paraguay. Due to political instability in Paraguay, Anderson's family soon moved to Argentina. Anderson started acting as a teenager, working at the ''Teatro Alemán Independiente'', a small theater troupe mainly composed of German expatriates who performed in German language, German. During the 1950s, Anderson moved his young family, including wife Helena Montalban, Helena, to Bogotá, Colombia where he worked in theater. The family later moved to the Dominican Republic. During his time in the Dominican Republic, Anderson reportedly clashed with the politics of the Rafael Trujillo regime, being forced to emigrate one more time. He and his family settled in Puerto Rico ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rican Institute Of Culture
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Puerto, a Spanish word meaning ''seaport'', may refer to: Places *El Puerto de Santa María, Andalusia, Spain *Puerto, a seaport town in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines *Puerto Colombia, Colombia *Puerto Cumarebo, Venezuela *Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines *Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela *Puerto Píritu, Venezuela *Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines *Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States *Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Others *Milton Jesús Puerto (born 1969), Honduran politician * ''Puerto Rico'' (board game) *Operación Puerto doping case See also * * Puerta (other) Puerta refers to the old original gates of the Walled City of Intramuros in Manila. Puerta may also refer to: People * Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer * Alonso José Puerta, Spanish politician * Lina Puerta, American artist *Mariano Puerta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Castro
Vicente is a Spanish and Portuguese name. Like its French variant, Vincent, it is derived from the Latin name ''Vincentius'' meaning "conquering" (from Latin ''vincere'', "to conquer"). Vicente may refer to: Places *São Vicente, Cape Verde, an island in Cape Verde People Given Name * Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate * Vicente Álvarez Travieso, first alguacil mayor (1731–1779) of San Antonio, Texas * Vicente Aranda (1926–2015), Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer * Vicente del Bosque (born 1950), former Spanish footballer and former manager of the Spain national football team * José Vicente Féliz, American settler * Vicente Fernández (1940–2021), Mexican retired singer, actor, and film producer * Vicente Fox (born 1942), Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico * Juan Vicente Gómez (1857–1935), Venezuelan military dictator * Vicente Gonçalves de Paula (1949–2011), Brazilian footballer * Vicente Guaita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Rosaly
Raquel Johanna Rosaly Guillermety (born January 13, 1948) is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and television host. Early years Johanna Rosaly was born in Santurce, a district of San Juan. In 1956 at the age of eight, she started taking acting lessons with Argentinians Luis A. Negro and Elba Mania, and dancing lessons with Beatriz Trujillo. In 1957, she made her acting debut as a child, on stage, at Teatro Tapia, in Old San Juan, in ''Mientras los Niños Juegan'' (''While the Children Play''). That same year, she made her debut on television, with Channel 2's children's production of ''Los Amigos de Pinocho'' (''Pinocho's Friends'') as well as in the film ''Con Los Pies Descalzos'' (an Osvaldo Agüero production, starring the Catalan actor Ricardo Palmerola). Teenage years Rosaly started taking singing lessons when she became a teenager. Then, she participated on stage in Spanish zarzuelas such as “El Caserío”, and “Black el Payaso”; operettas, such as “La duquesa de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Foods
Goya Foods, Inc., is a private company, private American multinational corporation, multinational producer and distributor of foods and beverages sold in the United States and many Spanish-speaking countries. The company operates facilities in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Spain. It is under third-generation ownership of the Spanish-American Unanue family and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1936 by Prudencio Unanue Ortiz and Carolina Casal de Valdez, a Spanish married couple who emigrated to New York City. Upon Prudencio's death in 1976, the company was valued at $8.5 million, and was passed on to sons Joseph A. Unanue, Joseph, Charles, Francisco, and Anthony. Under Joseph's tenure as chief executive Goya became a major corporation, which by 1998 produced about 800 food items, employed 2,000 workers, and had about US$700 million in annual revenue. In 2004, Joseph was ousted by fellow fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Daniel Rivera (actor)
Luis Daniel Rivera (born August 4, 1946, in Utuado, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actor and radio announcer. He is better known for his participation in Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic and Mexican telenovelas. He has also participated in some films. Rivera is also a former member of the New Progressive Party or "PNP", a political party which advocates for a possible, future Puerto Rican statehood (as a 51st state of the United States). Rivera, however, says that, since retiring as a member of that party, he prefers not to talk publicly about political issues or ideologies. Early life Rivera was born on August 4, 1946, in Utuado. He is the son of David Rivera Serrano, who was a farmer. Rivera's father was ill, and as a consequence, Rivera wanted, as a child, to study medicine so he could cure his father's illnesses. When he was only six years old, Rivera got the chance to speak in front of an audience for the first time, when asked to read a poem in front of his first-grade sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
