Sonia Noemí
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Sonia Noemi, "Sonia Noemí González" July 14, 1941, born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
, is an actress and singer, who is one of the pioneers of Puerto Rican television.
's second most populous city, which is also known as "El Pueblo del Chicharrón" (Fried Pig Skin City), located on the northern coastal valley of the island. In 1958, at the early age of 17, she was already one the stars of the musical television show broadcast by Telemundo
: "El Show Ford", with:Tito Lara
& the Puerto Rican vocal quartet, "Los Hispanos".
Years later, Sonia divorced Cabrera, and in the early 1970s, she married again, this time to the Cuban actor and producer Guillermo De Cun. In the early 1980s, Sonia divorced de Cun.
, was the producer of her first album: "Si Yo Fuera una Reina", (If I were a Queen), *Sona-Rico, SR-1*. Sonia's hit single was: "El rebelde", a Spanish version of the hit song: "He's a Rebel", from The Crystals
.
In 1965, Noemí, recorded her second album with RCA-Victor record label, in Mexico: "Baladas y boleros", (Ballads & Boleros), *MKL - 1626*. The hit single was "El Día", (The Day), written by the Mexican
composer: "Luis Demetrio".
In 1966, she recorded her third album, and second for RCA-Victor, in Mexico, named after her: Sonia Noemí, *MKL - 1627*.
In 1986, Noemí, recorded her fourth album: "En Mi Regreso", (In My Come Back) produced by Lou Briel
, *LAG, LP-1010*.
, "Machuchal", in 1968, and Creature from the Haunted Sea
, a Roger Corman
film.
Puerto Rico
, alongside Braulio Castillo
, such as El Derecho de Nacer
, (The Right to be Born). In the 1970s, Sonia was part of the star cast of Guillermo De Cun's production company called: "Producciones Comediante" (Comedian Productions), in WAPA-TV
, performing leading roles in several television situation comedies and drama series such as: "Escenario", (Stage), "Tres Chicas de Hoy", (Three young ladies of Today) & "Soltero y sin Compromiso", (Single & not Engaged).
In the 1980s she continued acting leading roles in various WAPA-TV
mini-series, produced by Elin Ortiz
, such as: "SIDA, Plaga o Destino", (AIDS, Plague or Destiny), "El Regreso de Gina", (The Return of Gina) with Charytín
, and "Las Divorciadas", (The Divorced Women),with Alba Raquel Barros
. In 1994 she made a special appearance in the soap opera, "Señora Tentación" (Lady Temptation), with Mexican actress: Lucía Méndez
, broadcast by Telemundo
.
, and Rafael Jose
, the Puerto Rican Game TV show: "A Millón", (Play the Million $$$), the #1 television series of the era, and the first television show produced by Luisito Vigoreaux
, initiating his long career as a producer, broadcast by WAPA-TV
.
, and has performed in Telemundo
NBC Universal
's soap operas, such as: El Cuerpo del Deseo
, (The Body of Desire) with Andrés García
, Mario Cimarro
, and Lorena Rojas
, & Tierra de Pasiones
, (Land of Passion), with Gabriela Spanic
. Sonia has also had leading roles in the Telemundo NBC Universal drama serial: Decisiones
(Decisions).
Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Bayamón is a municipality of Puerto Rico located on the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas and Comerío; south of Toa Baja and Cataño; west of Guaynabo; and east of Toa Alta and Naranjito. Bayamón is spread over 11 wards and Bayamón Pueblo...
, is an actress and singer, who is one of the pioneers of Puerto Rican television.
Early years
Sonia was born in Bayamón, Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
's second most populous city, which is also known as "El Pueblo del Chicharrón" (Fried Pig Skin City), located on the northern coastal valley of the island. In 1958, at the early age of 17, she was already one the stars of the musical television show broadcast by Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
: "El Show Ford", with:Tito Lara
Tito Lara
Tito Lara , was considered by many to be Puerto Rico's first television singing idol.-Early years:Born as Agustín Enrique Lara Olivencia in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Lara was raised by his maternal grandmother and received primary education in Santurce. During his spare time, he taught himself to...
& the Puerto Rican vocal quartet, "Los Hispanos".
Marriages
On September 3, 1965, Sonia Noemí, married a Venezuelan singer Hector Cabrera, and moved to Venezuela.Years later, Sonia divorced Cabrera, and in the early 1970s, she married again, this time to the Cuban actor and producer Guillermo De Cun. In the early 1980s, Sonia divorced de Cun.
Discography
Alfred D. HergerAlfred D. Herger
Alfredo Domingo Herger is a famous former Puerto Rican television show host and a psychologist. He has been labeled the Ed Sullivan of Puerto Rico in local media, due to his strong influence in Puerto Rican pop culture and his success as a television presenter.-Early life:Herger, of Spanish and...
, was the producer of her first album: "Si Yo Fuera una Reina", (If I were a Queen), *Sona-Rico, SR-1*. Sonia's hit single was: "El rebelde", a Spanish version of the hit song: "He's a Rebel", from The Crystals
The Crystals
The Crystals are an American vocal group based in New York, considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s. Their 1961–1964 chart hits, including "Uptown", "He's a Rebel", "Da Doo Ron Ron " and "Then He Kissed Me", featured three successive female lead...
.
In 1965, Noemí, recorded her second album with RCA-Victor record label, in Mexico: "Baladas y boleros", (Ballads & Boleros), *MKL - 1626*. The hit single was "El Día", (The Day), written by the Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
composer: "Luis Demetrio".
In 1966, she recorded her third album, and second for RCA-Victor, in Mexico, named after her: Sonia Noemí, *MKL - 1627*.
In 1986, Noemí, recorded her fourth album: "En Mi Regreso", (In My Come Back) produced by Lou Briel
Lou Briel
Lou Briel, is a Puerto Rican singer, composer, comedian, producer, pianist, and host, among other things.-Early Years with Anexo 3:...
, *LAG, LP-1010*.
Film
Noemí, performed the leading roles of three films: "Dios te Salve Siquiatra", (May God Save you, Psychiatrist), the first Cuban motion picture filmed in the United States (Miami, Florida), produced and directed by Cuban comedian: Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, in 1966, "El Curandero del Pueblo", (The Healing-man of the Town), starring with, Adalberto RodriguezAdalberto Rodriguez
Adalberto Rodríguez , better known as Machuchal, was a Puerto Rican comedian.Rodríguez was born in the town of Sabana Grande, in the southwest of Puerto Rico. He became very famous early on by imitating animal sounds for his elementary school peers. He acquired his stage name "Machuchal" after the...
, "Machuchal", in 1968, and Creature from the Haunted Sea
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 Horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a parody of spy, gangster, and monster movies , concerning a secret agent, XK150 , who goes under the code name "Sparks Moran" in order to infiltrate a...
, a Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
film.
Television
During the 1960s she performed in several live soap operas in TelemundoTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, alongside Braulio Castillo
Braulio Castillo
Braulio Castillo Cintrón was a telenovela actor in Latin America. His two sons, Braulio Castillo, Jr. and Jorge Castillo, are also actors....
, such as El Derecho de Nacer
El derecho de nacer
El derecho de nacer is the name of three Mexican productions as well as the Cuban novel that inspired them all about a young and unmarried high society woman seeking to abort her baby and the doctor who in counseling her tells his own story as an out-of-wedlock child.*El derecho de nacer is the...
, (The Right to be Born). In the 1970s, Sonia was part of the star cast of Guillermo De Cun's production company called: "Producciones Comediante" (Comedian Productions), in WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....
, performing leading roles in several television situation comedies and drama series such as: "Escenario", (Stage), "Tres Chicas de Hoy", (Three young ladies of Today) & "Soltero y sin Compromiso", (Single & not Engaged).
In the 1980s she continued acting leading roles in various WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....
mini-series, produced by Elin Ortiz
Elin Ortiz
Elin Ortiz is a Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer. -Life in the entertainment business:Ortiz began his career as a telenovela actor in Puerto Rico, sharing credits with such actors as Walter Mercado, Alicia Villamil and many others...
, such as: "SIDA, Plaga o Destino", (AIDS, Plague or Destiny), "El Regreso de Gina", (The Return of Gina) with Charytín
Charytin
Charytín Goyco , better known in the show business plainly as Charytín, is a singer, television presenter and actress from the Dominican Republic...
, and "Las Divorciadas", (The Divorced Women),with Alba Raquel Barros
Alba Raquel Barros
Alba Raquel Barros is an actress, comedian, and dancer. She is better known for her acting career, and she has won many national awards for her work, both in the television and theatrical fields....
. In 1994 she made a special appearance in the soap opera, "Señora Tentación" (Lady Temptation), with Mexican actress: Lucía Méndez
Lucía Méndez
Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer that has sold over 10 million records world wide.- Early success :...
, broadcast by Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
.
A Millón
In 1983, she began hosting, for several years, with Hector MarcanoHector Marcano
Hector Marcano is a Puerto Rican comedian, producer, and game show host in Puerto Rico.Hector Marcano was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on November 3, 1956. Marcano's career took off after Luis Vigoreaux's death...
, and Rafael Jose
Rafael José
Dr. Rafael José Diaz is a Puerto Rican television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital. His family eventually moved to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where he was raised...
, the Puerto Rican Game TV show: "A Millón", (Play the Million $$$), the #1 television series of the era, and the first television show produced by Luisito Vigoreaux
Luisito Vigoreaux
Luis Vigoreaux Lorenzana is a Puerto Rican actor and producer. He is the son of Luis Vigoreaux, a legendary Puerto Rican media personality and Rosaura Lorenzana Vilches...
, initiating his long career as a producer, broadcast by WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....
.
Recent years
Presently, Sonia Noemí, lives in Miami, FloridaMiami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
, and has performed in Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
's soap operas, such as: El Cuerpo del Deseo
El Cuerpo del Deseo
El cuerpo del Deseo also known as Second Chance is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and Film in Florida. This telenovela aired in several countries like Iran, Argentina, Malaysia, Poland, Philippines, Slovakia , Spain and Arab World on MBC Drama...
, (The Body of Desire) with Andrés García
Andrés García
Andrés García is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He is known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States....
, Mario Cimarro
Mario Cimarro
Mario Antonio Cimarro Paz is a Cuban actor.-Biography:Cimarro was born in Havana, Cuba to Antonio Luis Cimarro and Maria Caridad Paz. He has one sister, Maria Antonia Cimarro Paz...
, and Lorena Rojas
Lorena Rojas
Lorena Rojas is a Mexican actress and singer, a song writer and best known for her leading roles in popular Telenovelas.- Biography :...
, & Tierra de Pasiones
Tierra de Pasiones
Tierra de Pasiones is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo which is owned by NBC Universal. Tierra de Pasiones was filmed on a set in Homestead, Florida, and aired weekdays from February 20, 2006 to October 24, 2006 at 8 pm ET...
, (Land of Passion), with Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic , or Gaby Spanic, is an award-winning Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. Her twin sister is model/actress Daniela Spanic. She has a younger sister Patricia, and two brothers Antonio and Adiel...
. Sonia has also had leading roles in the Telemundo NBC Universal drama serial: Decisiones
Decisiones
Decisiones is a Telemundo-produced Spanish-language television anthology of steamy melodramas about passion and sex in the modern world. The hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points...
(Decisions).
External links
- http://www.telemundo.com Telemundo Website
- http://msnlatino.telemundo.com/novelas/Tierra_de_Pasiones/ Official "Tierra de Pasiones" Website
- Noemi Video
- Boricua
- Bio
- Noemi Video 2