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Menudo is a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in Puerto Rico by producer Edgardo Díaz. Referred to as the "Most Iconic Latino Pop Music Band", Menudo has been ranked as one of the Biggest Boy Bands of All Time by several publications, including Billboard, Us Weekly, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue, being the only Latin band on their lists.
Edgardo Díaz is a Puerto Rican music producer. He is the creator of the "boy band" Menudo.
Rene Farrait Nieves is a Puerto Rican singer, actor, and former member of the boy band Menudo.
Los Chamos were a famous Venezuelan boy band formed in Caracas, Venezuela in 1981 to rival Menudo's success. Los Chamos were made up of six members and released their first album "Los Chamos-El Soldadito" sponsored by channel 8 of Venezuelan National TV.
Uff! was a Venezuelan boy band founded in 2000. Similar in style to Menudo, Los Chicos and Los Chamos, they mimicked the fashion style of contemporary American boy bands like No Authority, Backstreet Boys and Hanson. In 2001, the band's debut album achieved a golden record in Mexico.
La Pandilla was a teen music group of the 1970s, founded in 1970 by Pepa Aguirre. The group had members of both sexes, unlike most pop groups at the time.
Márquez or Marquez is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "son of Marcos or Marcus". Its Portuguese equivalent is Marques.
Jonathan Daniel Montenegro Uzcátegui is a well known Venezuelan actor and singer. Montenegro was a member of the popular Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz, known professionally as La novia de Mexico, is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida peaked at No. 6, Reina Y Cenicienta peaked at No. 9, Prohibido (Prohibited) peaked at No. 13, and El Taconazo peaked at No. 34 on the hot Latin songs chart. She also belongs to the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
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Mario Almada Otero was a Mexican actor with a career lasting over seven decades. He appeared in over 300 films. He was most known for his roles in urban westerns, narco peliculas and action pictures. He was the brother of actor Fernando Almada.
Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco, commonly known as Yuri, is a Mexican singer, actress and television host. Yuri began her career as a teenage singer in her native country. In 1978 she released her first album titled Tú Iluminas mi Vida. She gained recognition as a result of her participation in the Oti Festival in 1980. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Yuri established herself as one of the most popular pop music singers in Mexico and Latin America. Her vocal quality and versatility allow her to be incorporated into other musical genres, ranging from pop to dance, ranchera and tropical music genres. Thanks to her success and influence, she came to be considered the "Queen of Latin Pop".
Nieves is a Spanish surname and a female given name from the title of the Virgin Mary Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, meaning "Our Lady of the Snows." There is also a Scottish Nieves surname that originated in Nevay, located in Angus, Scotland, and thus can be found in that country of United Kingdom. The Portuguese variant is Neves. The Spanish surname is most commonly found in Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain, and in many other Latin American countries. It is also common in the Canary Islands and its variant Neves is particularly common in Portugal as well as in the autonomous region of Galicia, Spain. According to Roser Saurí Colomer and Patrick Hanks of Brandeis University, the Spanish surname Nieves is of Asturian-Leonese origin.
The cinema of Venezuela is the production and industry of filmmaking in Venezuela. Venezuelan cinema has been characterised from its outset as propaganda, partially state-controlled and state-funded, commercial cinema. The nation has seen a variety of successful films, which have reaped several international awards. Still, in terms of quality, it is said that though "we can point to specific people who have made great films in Venezuela [and] a couple of great moments in the history of Venezuelan cinema, [...] those have been exceptions". In the 21st century, Venezuelan cinema has seen more independence from the government, but has still been described as recently as 2017 to be at least "influenced" by the state.
Carlos Emmanuel Olivero, better known as Carlito Olivero, is an American singer and actor of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent. From 2007 to 2009, he was part of the Latin boy band Menudo after taking part in MTV's Making Menudo. Moving to Los Angeles in 2009, he appeared in various singing and acting events and in 2012 appeared in the film We the Party directed by Mario Van Peebles. In 2013, he auditioned for season 3 of the American singing competition series The X Factor and finished 3rd in the competition. He was mentored by Paulina Rubio.
Mermelada was a boy band from the Dominican Republic. During the 1980s, when other Latin teen musical bands such as Puerto Rico's Menudo and Los Chicos, Venezuela's Los Chamos, Spain's Parchis and others enjoyed commercial success across Latin America and Europe, Mermelada was the Dominican Republic's main album-selling teen and boy band.
La Pandilla en Apuros is a 1976 musical teen-comedy film featuring the well known teenage musical group from Spain, La Pandilla.
César Queijeiro Bono, better known as César Bono, is a Mexican film and television actor and comedian. He is better known for his participation in Mexican sex-comedy films.
Lucila Marina Mariscal Lara is a Mexican actress, comedian, director, singer and song composer. Mariscal has had an extensive show business career spanning more than 50 years; she may be better remembered by Mexican audiences for her character of "Lencha", which she played in films, theater, television, and in song, but to international audiences, specially those in other Spanish-speaking countries, she may be best remembered for her participation in the film Secuestro En Acapulco-Canta Chamo, a 1983 movie where she played the role of the local tour manager of Venezuelan boy band, Los Chamos.
Gabriel Fernández is a Venezuelan singer and actor. He is best known as a member of 1980s Venezuelan boy band, Los Chamos, and is sometimes remembered by his nickname of "Chamo Gabriel" by the band's fans.
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