La Academia is a Mexican reality musical talent television series shown on TV Azteca, that premiered in June 2002 and is currently in its thirteenth installment. Although the show itself is not affiliated with the Endemol franchise, which includes the "Star Academy" shows, it does share the competition format of many of the variants of the global franchise.
Yuridia Francisca Gaxiola Flores, known mononymously as Yuridia is a Mexican singer. She came in second place in the fourth season of the reality show La Academia, which launched her career. She is considered as one of the most successful and most listened-to Mexican artists on digital platforms.
Adrián Eduardo Varela Avilés was a contestant of the fourth generation of popular Mexican reality show La Academia. He is the son of Isidro Varela and Dora Elvia Avilés. He has a younger sister, Carolina. He is known to be a young person of strong and sensible character with a great voice that emphasizes it. He went to University of Sinaloa to major in marketing. He is fluent in Spanish and English.
María Inés Guerra Núñez, commonly known as María Inés Guerra, is a Mexican TV hostess and singer.
Latin American Idol was the Hispanic American edition of the popular British franchise of Idols, well known for its American version American Idol. The show aimed to discover the pop idol of the Hispanic American region. The show was filmed in Buenos Aires and was transmitted to over 23 nations in the region via the Sony Entertainment Television network.
Desafío de Estrellas is a Mexican musical show produced and distributed by TV Azteca, the second most important network in the country. The format of the Desafío is similar to American Idol with contestants eliminated every week and a grand finale with the top contestants competing to win the first place prize. TV Azteca has, until 2006, produced two versions of the program, one in 2003 and the other in 2006. The 2003 version consisted only of former contestants of La Academia, another TV Azteca-produced show which had already garnished two seasons and, in the process, taken away rating from Televisa, the prime network of the country. The 2006 version, on the other hand, consisted of both former contestants of La Academia, as well as other artists produced by TV Azteca in the middle and late '90s, later in 2009 a third season took place with former contestants of the six seasons of la academia.
Cynthia Deyanira Rodríguez Ruiz is a Mexican singer and reality television personality.
Mayré Andrea de los Ángeles Martínez Blanco, is a Latin pop singer, songwriter. She rose to popularity in Latin America after winning the first season of the reality show Latin American Idol. In her native country, Venezuela, she was a contestant in Radio Caracas Television's reality show Fama, Sudor y Lágrimas 2006, where she came in fifth place, because she decided to back out to join the cast of Latin American Idol. She's the oldest contestant ever to win Latin American Idol prior to being the first winner.
Jackeline Fabiola Rodas Valladares, also known as Fabiola Roudha was, is a Guatemalan singer and songwriter who gained international attention by coming in third place on the reality show Codigo Fama Internacional. Several years later, in 2008, she was the runner-up in La Academia--Última Generación. In 2009, she was crowned the winner of El Gran Desafío de Estrellas.
The third season of Ídolos premiered in October, 2009 on SIC, over four years after the second season finished.
Segunda Oportunidad was a Mexican reality show produced by TV Azteca and Azteca América that reunited non-winning contestants from the first seven seasons of La Academia as well as La Academia USA and was hosted by Rafael Araneda, Betty Monroe and Miss Universe 2003 Amelia Vega. The 52 contestants, divided into teams of four members each, spent each week at an isolated location learning and developing their artistic skills, then competed against each other during a weekly concert for TV viewers and a live studio audience and face elimination. Producers stated the composition of each team on March 10, 2010. The 52 contestants lived in Emilio "Indio" Fernandez's home.
Manuel Alejandro Carrasco de la O, commonly known as Menny, is a Mexican singer / songwriter, and former contestant of the popular Mexican reality television series La Academia and Segunda Oportunidad.
Laura Isabel Caro Beltran is a Mexican singer-songwriter, actress, model and former TV host. She is known for her lead role in the 2013 film Here Comes the Devil. In 2016, she became a contestant on Televisa's The Voice.
Nuestra Belleza Latina 2012 was the sixth season of Nuestra Belleza Latina, and the season finale aired on Univision on May 20, 2012 at 8pm central.
Based on the format of the program Strictly Come Dancing, El Baile en TVN has aired in Chile since 16 October 2006. The hosts are Rafael Araneda and Karen Doggenweiler.
¡México Por Siempre! is the 20th studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel. Released on 24 November 2017 via Warner Music Mexico, it is his second full-length mariachi album following México en la Piel (2006). The album was produced solely by Miguel, with instrumentation done by mariachi ensemble Vargas de Tecalitlán.
Resistiré is a Chilean reality television series broadcast on Mega, Azteca 7, MTV Latin America and MTV Spain which will force a group of contestants to literally answer the question "How much would you pay to survive?". The series drops twenty four adventures on a house with nothing but the clothes on their backs and $500,000 in cash.
Lunas del Auditorio is a recognition given by the Auditorio Nacional to the best live concerts in Mexico. The prize is a replica of the sculpture of the Moon by sculptor Juan Soriano. The ceremony is broadcast by Televisa, TV Azteca, Channel 22 of the Secretariat of Culture and Canal Once of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.
Fox Sports was a group of channels available in Latin America and operated by The Walt Disney Company Latin America, a unit of the Disney International Operations. The network was focused on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available throughout Latin America.
