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Brenda K. Starr (born 1966), salsa singer (Puerto Rican mother) Michael Stuart (born 1975), salsa singer. Sweet Sensation, freestyle trio. T. Nedra Talley (born 1946), singer, member of " The Ronettes ", who were inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 [ 305 ] Olga Tañón (born 1967), singer, composer.
Fortuño was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Luis Fortuño Moscoso, a dentist, and Shirley Burset.He is the eldest of four brothers. [3] Fortuño is of paternal Spanish descent including Catalan and Galician, his great-great grandfather Jaime José Fortuño y Ferrús was from Tarragona.
For years, it was considered that the first player from Puerto Rico to play in the major leagues was Hiram Bithorn in 1942. But this changed in December 2020, when seven Negro baseball leagues between 1920 and 1948 were recognized as "major leagues." Thus, the first Puerto Rican to play baseball on the major leagues was Jose "Gacho" Torres, who ...
The Miss World[1] pageant began in 1951 and since then Puerto Rico has had 18 representatives classify in the finals. Ingrid Marie Rivera, Miss Puerto Rico World 2005 and Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2008. Jennifer Guevara, Miss Puerto Rico World 2007. Ivonne Orsini, Miss Puerto Rico World 2008. Winner of Miss World. Runner-up in the Top 3 or Top 5.
Carolina (/ ˌkæroʊˈliːnə /; Spanish pronunciation: [kaɾoˈlina]) is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico, immediately east of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, north of Gurabo and Juncos, and west of Canóvanas and Loíza. Part of the San Juan metropolitan area, Carolina is spread over 12 barrios and the ...
The 2023 Carolina, Puerto Rico, massacre took place on July 25, 2023, when five youngsters, four of them teenagers from the southern city of Guayama, were murdered and their bodies were found in barrio Martín González, [1] in the northern city of Carolina and in neighboring Loíza. [2] The people who were found murdered in Carolina were ...
As of 2023, this was the most recent time a member of the Popular Democratic Party won the governorship of Puerto Rico, and the last time a Republican did so. In the elections for Resident Commissioner, incumbent Pedro Pierluisi of the PNP (who caucused with the Democratic Party and who was first elected in 2008 , narrowly won reelection for a ...
Isla Culebra (Spanish pronunciation: [kuˈleβɾa], Snake Island) is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico, and together with Vieques, it is geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands. It is located approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of the Puerto Rican mainland, 12 miles (19 km) west of St. Thomas and 9 miles (14 km) north of ...