Somos tú y yo
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Somos tú y yo is a television series produced by Tigritos Media Productions C.A. and Venevisión
in 2007 under the direction of Vladimir Perez, and recently broadcast on the channel Boomerang. Its second season started on July 2, 2008 which is transmitted at 18:00 h in Venezuela and is coming soon to Boomerang.
The show has been officially cancelled due to supposed complaints against it on CONATEL in Venezuela
, forcing the producers to make the second season its last one, but recently Vladimir Perez announced a third season for 2009 and the series would be put on hiatus officially until August 17, the premiere of the third season. Its main competitor is Isa TKM
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but not for its showing outside the country. Producer Vladimir Perez plans to broadcast the series in several more countries. He hopes to win the international public with the same success that Venevisión productions always have. Although this series has a shoestring budget, it is known that his actors were not receiving a salary the moment before the recordings, they have appeared advertising the feminine hygiene company Always, they have begun to see economic progress.
She lives with her cousin Claudia as her mother is dead. She finds unconditional friendship and support in her boyfriend Victor. Sheryl is confident and a talented singer of 15 years.
He is many girls' fantasy guy: honest, enthusiastic, handsome and romantic. He is originally from Valencia, but his mother Monica was relocated for work (she is a radio producer) and his aunt Magaly (The owner of the Music Academy and Talent) gets him work in the small all-student college radio, "Date". He now lives in Caracas with his aunt Magaly and her two sons, his cousins, Nicolas and Jorge. Sheryl is his girlfriend and they share a common bond through music.
Along with Rosangela and Oriana, Rosmery forms the popular group dubbed the 'Sifrinas'. In the beginning, she becomes Aran's girlfriend, later breaking up and developing a crush on Victor, while Aran has a crush on Sheryl. The two team up to break up Sheryl and Victor. While at first they are successful in deceiving Victor into believing that Sheryl likes Aran, Sheryl and Victor discover their plot and get revenge. Her inseparable best friends, Oriana y Rosangela are sometimes forced to do dirty work in her vengeful schemes.
Aran is the hot boy of the Academy. His catch phrase is "Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't see the menu". He is a good looking, charming heartthrob who in the beginning is with Rosmery. When they break up however, he becomes interested in Sheryl (whom he calls 'guitarrita') who is with Victor. Together with Rosmery he unsuccessfully tries to break up the two. In the end, he becomes a kinder person, at least for now. He dreams of becoming a professional baseball pitcher.
In the beginning she is Hendrick's girlfriend, but the relationship always has problems. She is self-centered and her main goal in life is to become a star. She is a part of the 'Sifrinas' along with her best friends Rosangela 'Rosi' and Rosmery 'Rosme'. Her typical attitude is 'if Hendrick is not mine, then he's nobody's'. Her relationship with Hendrick ends, and after another brief stint while Hendrick tries to make Sheryl jealous, remains over. She later finds love with an unsuspected person.
In the beginning he is with Oriana, but later begins to like Sheryl. He plays basketball, is fun, laid back and is Aran's best friend. In the end of season one, he and Yuvanna fall in love
with each other and end up together. He also falls in love with Sheryl.
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...
in 2007 under the direction of Vladimir Perez, and recently broadcast on the channel Boomerang. Its second season started on July 2, 2008 which is transmitted at 18:00 h in Venezuela and is coming soon to Boomerang.
The show has been officially cancelled due to supposed complaints against it on CONATEL in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, forcing the producers to make the second season its last one, but recently Vladimir Perez announced a third season for 2009 and the series would be put on hiatus officially until August 17, the premiere of the third season. Its main competitor is Isa TKM
Isa TKM
*For the second season, see Isa TK+*For the music group, see Isa TKM Isa TKM is an original telenovela-like teen program from Nickelodeon Latin America in co-production with Sony Pictures Television, Made in Venezuela being the second from three Latin American Nickelodeon programs *For the second...
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Popularity
This dramatic production had great success in VenezuelaVenezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
but not for its showing outside the country. Producer Vladimir Perez plans to broadcast the series in several more countries. He hopes to win the international public with the same success that Venevisión productions always have. Although this series has a shoestring budget, it is known that his actors were not receiving a salary the moment before the recordings, they have appeared advertising the feminine hygiene company Always, they have begun to see economic progress.
Story
This story recounts the relationship between two young people (Sheryl and Victor). Beginning as friends, a deeper romantic relationship grows as they share their passion for music. All the while, popular girl Rosmery and popular boy Aran fight to keep Sheryl and Victor apart.Characters
- Sheryl Rubio:
She lives with her cousin Claudia as her mother is dead. She finds unconditional friendship and support in her boyfriend Victor. Sheryl is confident and a talented singer of 15 years.
- Victor Drija:
He is many girls' fantasy guy: honest, enthusiastic, handsome and romantic. He is originally from Valencia, but his mother Monica was relocated for work (she is a radio producer) and his aunt Magaly (The owner of the Music Academy and Talent) gets him work in the small all-student college radio, "Date". He now lives in Caracas with his aunt Magaly and her two sons, his cousins, Nicolas and Jorge. Sheryl is his girlfriend and they share a common bond through music.
- Rosmery Marval:
Along with Rosangela and Oriana, Rosmery forms the popular group dubbed the 'Sifrinas'. In the beginning, she becomes Aran's girlfriend, later breaking up and developing a crush on Victor, while Aran has a crush on Sheryl. The two team up to break up Sheryl and Victor. While at first they are successful in deceiving Victor into believing that Sheryl likes Aran, Sheryl and Victor discover their plot and get revenge. Her inseparable best friends, Oriana y Rosangela are sometimes forced to do dirty work in her vengeful schemes.
- Aran de las Casas:
Aran is the hot boy of the Academy. His catch phrase is "Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't see the menu". He is a good looking, charming heartthrob who in the beginning is with Rosmery. When they break up however, he becomes interested in Sheryl (whom he calls 'guitarrita') who is with Victor. Together with Rosmery he unsuccessfully tries to break up the two. In the end, he becomes a kinder person, at least for now. He dreams of becoming a professional baseball pitcher.
- Oriana Ramirez:
In the beginning she is Hendrick's girlfriend, but the relationship always has problems. She is self-centered and her main goal in life is to become a star. She is a part of the 'Sifrinas' along with her best friends Rosangela 'Rosi' and Rosmery 'Rosme'. Her typical attitude is 'if Hendrick is not mine, then he's nobody's'. Her relationship with Hendrick ends, and after another brief stint while Hendrick tries to make Sheryl jealous, remains over. She later finds love with an unsuspected person.
- Hendrik Bages:
In the beginning he is with Oriana, but later begins to like Sheryl. He plays basketball, is fun, laid back and is Aran's best friend. In the end of season one, he and Yuvanna fall in love
with each other and end up together. He also falls in love with Sheryl.
Other characters
- Kelly Duran: former girlfriend of Victor, at the end of the first season is with Jorge.
- Jorge Torres: Cousin of Victor, son of the director Magaly, becomes Kelly's boyfriend, was with Adrianna in the beginning.
- Claudia Morales: Sheryl's cousin, whom she lives with. Is very jealous of Sheryl's popularity and talent.
- Luciano Muguerza: Worker in the luncheria, ex-boyfriend of Adriana.
- Yuvana Montalvo: A young star, beautiful brunette woman, falls in love with Victor but at the end of the season becomes Hendrick's girlfriend.
- Alejandro Mogollón: He works with Yuvana as her driver and friend. He is also the 'Enmascarado del Amor'.
- Adriana Prieto: She is the daughter of the owner of the luncheria, initially was unattractive, but in the second season, she changed her look and became pretty. she went out with Jorge at the beginning then she went out with Luciano in the second season.
- Rosangelica Piscitelli/ Rosangela: Rosangela is a part of the 'Sifrinas', a popular group including her and her best friends Rosmery and Oriana. She is talkative and was Nicolas' girlfriend on two occasions. In the end he breaks up with her as she is so controlling.
- Nathaly Acedo: She is Adrianna's sister and Maria Gabriella's cousin. She is in love with Hendrick.
- Ricardo Páez: He is called "Frog Face". Had a brief crush on Claudia. Is in love with Oriana and went out with her.
- Gabriel Coronel: He is one of the boys of radio and tries to win the heart of Maria Gabriela against 'El Enmascarado del Amor.
- Ana Karina Cucurullo: The former assistant Yuvana, and tries to get revenge with Yuvanna.
- Nicolás Pérez: He is the brother of Jorge and this love with Rosangela (which called "la Catira"), even it can create characters as "rapper" and was going through 'El Enmascarardo del Amor', then falls in love with Rosangela's cousin who came from Spain called Valeska, even struggling with his best friend Alfredo for it.
- Alfredo Lovera: He is the best friend of Nicholas and Juan Carlos, working in the station of "Date" and is in love with Rosangela's cousin who is from Spain, named Valeska, although he does not know that his friend Nicholas and she are in love.
- Juan Carlos Denis: He is the best friend of Nicholas and Alfredo, falls in love with Yuvana (Although he has no chance with her)and becomes Vanessa's boyfriend. he's working on "Date" the station of the school.
- Maria Gabriella Hernández: Young extroverted, always wants to be around, is cheerful, friendly and kind, becomes Gabriel's girlfriend, his heart is divided between Gabriel and 'El Enmascarado del Amor' (who's Alejandro).
- Yelitza Méndez: She is a girl very enthusiastic and works in the station "Date", but is on the wrong track when it starts to walk with Rosmery, Oriana and Rosangela, becomes a sifrina like them until she discovered that they were never her friend, she returned with their old friends Maria Gabriella, Vanessa and Ariany.
- Vanessa Suárez: She is a girl who likes to eat a lot and is girlfriend of Juan Carlos, a friend of Maria Gabriella, Yelitza and Ariany, she works at the station "Date".
- Ariany Moreno: A young brunette is a very beautiful and is a friend of Maria Gabriella, Vanessa and Yelitza and works in the station "Date".
- Analic Aponte: It is the substitute teacher of dance at the Academy of Music and Talent (Although has no talent) and premium is in love with Alejandro.
- Monica: Victor's mother and Jorge and Nicolas's aunt.
- Mr. Hernan: He is the father of Adriana and Nathaly and uncle of Maria Gabriela, owns the luncheria.
Some confirmed new characters of season 2
- Maria Elena Da Silva:
- Maria Fernanda Pita:
- Christian Zamora:
- Gesaria Laprieta:
- Mandy Meza:
- Florbelys Nuñez:
- Gabriel Uzcategui:
- Gustavo Ramirez:
Songs
Somos Tu y Yo (Soundtrack)| # | Song Title | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Somos Tu y Yo | Sheryl & Victor |
| 2. | El Celular | Cast |
| 3. | Rock & Roll de Aran | Aran and Female Cast |
| 4. | Voy a Ganar | Male Cast |
| 5. | Quisiera Que Vieras | Claudia |
| 6. | Salga Sapo, Salga Rana | Ricardo |
| 7. | Nunca Pasara | Yuvana |
| 8. | Asi Somos Tu y Yo | Victor |
| 9. | Cuando Me Miran | Cast |
| 10. | Alegrame el Dia | Hendrick |
| 11. | En la Radio | Female Cast |
| 12. | Somos Tu y Yo (Ballad) | Sheryl |
Some confirmed songs of season 2
| # | Song Title | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| 13. | Si tú no estás | Sheryl & Victor |
| 14. | Hello amiguis hello | Female Cast |
| 15. | Sé que cambié | Claudia |
| 16. | Los reyes de la Playa | Male Cast |
| 17. | Dimelo aquí | Paola y Victor |
| 18. | Estoy Aqui | Victor y Sheryl |
| 19. | La Fiesta Va Empezar | Cast |
| 20. | Y Si Fuera | Victor |
Trivia
- The whole cast of young people including dancers, were selected in a casting auditions where over 3500 teens tried out.
- To choose the final cast, the auditioners had to go through many different tests to test their singing, dancing and acting.
- The name of all the cast members (teens and children) are the same in real life and in the series to avoid confusion. Only the name 'Rosangela' was changed from the original 'Rosangelica'
- Victor Drija and Oriana Ramirez were boyfriend and girlfriend in real life.
- The main protagnist Victor Drija is the son of Anita Vivas (A successful choreographer in Venezuela) and Antonio Drija (famous dancer and now star of Cirque du SoleilCirque du SoleilCirque du Soleil , is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy...
in Las VegasLas Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
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- In the second season, Adriana, Nathaly, Monica and Mr. Hernan do not appear.
Adaptation
- An Malaysian adaptation of Somos tú y yo is called Kau dan AkuKau dan AkuKau dan Aku is a Malaysian adaptation drama from a Venezuelan television series called Somos Tu Y Yo. This drama airs at Astro Ria every Saturday at 10 PM .- Plot :...
, starring Mila, Akim, Aril and Raja Farah. The programme is shown on Astro RiaAstro RiaAstro Ria is a Malaysian 24 hour television network broadcast on the Astro satellite television service. It was one of the first 22 channels to commence broadcast on Astro in 1996.Programs on the network include Malay dramas, films and reality shows....
since October 24, 2009, Saturdays at 10 PM (local time). The second series starts its airing in December 2010.
- An Indonesian adaption of Somos Tú y yo is called You and Me start Monday, 6 April 2009 19:00 PM WIBTime in IndonesiaThe Indonesian archipelago geographically stretches across four time zones from UTC+7 in Banda Aceh to UTC+9 in Western Papua. However, The Indonesian government only recognizes three time zones in its territory: Western Indonesian Time—seven hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time ,...
on Global TVGlobal TV (Indonesia)Global TV is an Indonesian private television station based in West Jakarta. It is established in early January 1, 1998 and first went on air on January 1, 2001 with MTV programming....
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