Zeny & Zory
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Zeny y Zory Las gemelas Beveraggi, (The Beveraggi twins) (born May 12, 1957), are identical twins and have performed as a pop-music duet since the age of 15. Zeny is currently managing her daughter, Sol Carbone, create her first music album.
, including "La Boite Saint Michelle", "La Tasca de Hugo", and "El Barril de Vino" at the Condado Tourist County.
signed them as part of the regular cast of the mid-day television musical comedy show Cambia, Cambia con Alfred, (Over and over with Alfred), on WKBM-TV, channel 11. Later that year, Zeny and Zory represented Puerto Rico in the fourth "Festival de la Voz y la Canción", (Voice and Song Festival), managed by Charlie López, and they won the First Prize Award with the song, "Así es, mi Amor", (That's the way it is, my love), composed for them by Lito Peña.
Herger produced their first album, Las Gemelas Zeny y Zory, (Zeny & Zory, the Twins), *Flamboyan FLP-335*. It was directed by the Argentinian musical arranger and pianist Zito Zelante. The album's hit single was "A La Deriva", (Drifting away), composed by Felito Felix. The album won them the Puerto Rican
Grammy "El Agueybaná de Oro", (The Gold Agueybana), and the award as the best album of the year at the San Juan
's "Festival del Disco", (The Record Album Festival).
In 1977, they moved to Mexico City
for 8 years, performing in night clubs such as El Fiesta Palace and El Marrakech. They were featured at the all-star television show Espectacular Domecq (The Domecq Spectacular), alongside James Brown
, and Gloria Gaynor
. During their long stay in Mexico, they shared stage with José Feliciano
, Vicki Carr, La Lupe
, Jon Secada
, Lissette
, Nelson Ned
, Damaso Perez Prado, Alvaro Torres
, Carmita Jiménez
, Antonio Aguilar
, Marco Antonio Muñiz
, and Pablo Montero
, among many others. They also starred in various photo romance soap operas, and at the "Palace Hotel Celebration".
In 1985, Zeny and Zory returned to Puerto Rico, recording their second album, Rabia, Libertad, Fantasía, (Rage, Liberty, Fantasy), *True Love, TLR-004*, produced by Lou Briel
. The twins then toured Colombia
, Curaçao
, Ecuador
, Dominican Republic
, Venezuela
, Mexico again, and ended up in Miami, Florida
.
In 1986, Zeny & Zory were the guest stars of the song festival in Colombia, called "Festi-Buga".
, Andy Montañez
, Lou Briel
, Danny Rivera
Jr., Chucho Avellanet
, and with musical directors: Tito Vicente
, Eloy Monrouzeau, and Angel "Cuco" Peña, among many others.
They returned to the record business in 2004, with the album Fuera de control (Out of Control), *GEO Music*, produced and directed in Miami, Florida
by the Puerto Rican keyboardist
, "Amaury López". By then, the duet had made their debut in the "Tropicoro" nightclub, at the Wyndham-San Juan Hotel & Casino on Isla Verde, Carolina. Since then, they have performed their Bohemia act in many nightclubs in Puerto Rico: "Isleos Club", "El Bodegón de Gaspar", "Piacere Club House", "Mozart Cafe", and "Amadeus Bistro" among others.
In February 2007, they travelled to Orlando, Florida
, to perform on Valentine's Day at the "Citrus Crown Ball Room", in the "Double Tree Hotel", alongside Sully Diaz
, and Danny Rivera
Jr.
Later, in March 2007, they were part of the star cast of the bohemia spectacle: "Concierto y Bohemia bajo las Estrellas", (Concert & Bohemia Beneath the Stars), with Lou Briel
and "Jose Juan Tañón", staged at Plaza Colón, in Old San Juan.
Presently, they've been performing in various night clubs throughout Puerto Rico, such as "Petra Café Teatro" in the tourist county of Miramar, and "La Tasca de David" at El Señorial.
In October 2007 they were featured in the BMI
Noche Bohemia Showcase in Manhattan
, New York, at the S.O.B's. Club, as the closing star act. Zeny & Zory performed, singing their latest releases as songwriters. Later during this month, the Beveraggi's traveled to Mexico to open a new night club alongside Andrés García
.
In November 2007 they're featured in the i Piaceri exclusive club located at the Three Little Nuns Industrial Section in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico with their new act called: Bohemia Acústica y Rumba Flamenca.
In February 2008, this show was performed at three different nightclub
s: El Mariachi, Petra Café Teatro & El Bodegón de Gaspar.
Presently, they're filming a pilot
series for NBC
in Puerto Rican locations.
Early years
The twins were born in Santurce, Puerto Rico). In 1976, when they were only 15 years old, they managed to look older and lie about their age to Charlie García, owner of the night club The Wine Cellar, in order to perform in the club for two consecutive years. Later, they performed in different night clubs in San JuanSan Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
, including "La Boite Saint Michelle", "La Tasca de Hugo", and "El Barril de Vino" at the Condado Tourist County.
Career
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...
signed them as part of the regular cast of the mid-day television musical comedy show Cambia, Cambia con Alfred, (Over and over with Alfred), on WKBM-TV, channel 11. Later that year, Zeny and Zory represented Puerto Rico in the fourth "Festival de la Voz y la Canción", (Voice and Song Festival), managed by Charlie López, and they won the First Prize Award with the song, "Así es, mi Amor", (That's the way it is, my love), composed for them by Lito Peña.
Herger produced their first album, Las Gemelas Zeny y Zory, (Zeny & Zory, the Twins), *Flamboyan FLP-335*. It was directed by the Argentinian musical arranger and pianist Zito Zelante. The album's hit single was "A La Deriva", (Drifting away), composed by Felito Felix. The album won them the Puerto Rican
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...
Grammy "El Agueybaná de Oro", (The Gold Agueybana), and the award as the best album of the year at the San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
's "Festival del Disco", (The Record Album Festival).
In 1977, they moved to Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
for 8 years, performing in night clubs such as El Fiesta Palace and El Marrakech. They were featured at the all-star television show Espectacular Domecq (The Domecq Spectacular), alongside James Brown
James Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
, and Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...
. During their long stay in Mexico, they shared stage with José Feliciano
José Feliciano
José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
, Vicki Carr, La Lupe
La Lupe
La Lupe , was a Cuban-American singer of several musical genres: boleros, guarachas and Latin soul in particular...
, Jon Secada
Jon Secada
Jon Secada is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion...
, Lissette
Lissette
Lissette Álvarez is a singer, songwriter and record producer from Peru. She is best known for recording a Spanish language version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1985.-Early life:...
, Nelson Ned
Nelson Ned
Nelson Ned is a famous Brazilian singer from Ubá, Minas Gerais. Nelson built a solid career as a singer and composer of sentimental, suffering songs, rising to popularity in Brazil and Latin America in 1969 and becoming known internationally, especially in Portugal, France and Spain...
, Damaso Perez Prado, Alvaro Torres
Álvaro Torres
Álvaro Torres is a Salvadoran singer and songwriter. His current Record Label is Big Dream Christian Music located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.-Biography:...
, Carmita Jiménez
Carmita Jiménez
Carmita Jiménez was a Puerto Rican singer who was considered a diva in Puerto Rico. She was born in San Lorenzo....
, Antonio Aguilar
Antonio Aguilar
José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Barraza most commonly known as Antonio Aguilar, nicknamed "El Charro de México", was a Mexican film actor, singer, producer and screenwriter. During his career, he made over 150 albums, which sold 25 million copies, and made 167 movies...
, Marco Antonio Muñiz
Marco Antonio Muñiz
Marco Antonio Muñiz is a singer from Jalisco, Mexico. Known all over Latin America, Muñiz actually has declared publicly and in most countries he has visited, that Puerto Rico is his second country, and many Puerto Ricans consider him to be an "honorary Puerto Rican"...
, and Pablo Montero
Pablo Montero
Pablo Montero is a popular Mexican singer and actor.- Personal life :Montero was born Oscar Daniel Hernández Rodríguez in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.From about 2000 to 2003, Montero had a relationship with Aracely Arámbula....
, among many others. They also starred in various photo romance soap operas, and at the "Palace Hotel Celebration".
In 1985, Zeny and Zory returned to Puerto Rico, recording their second album, Rabia, Libertad, Fantasía, (Rage, Liberty, Fantasy), *True Love, TLR-004*, 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:...
. The twins then toured Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, Curaçao
Curaçao
Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
, 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...
, Mexico again, and ended up in Miami, Florida
Miami, 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...
.
In 1986, Zeny & Zory were the guest stars of the song festival in Colombia, called "Festi-Buga".
Separation
But with no explanation at all, Zeny & Zory separated in their peak, for as long as fourteen years.Comeback
In 2001, they made their comeback, performing at the Arena Pier 10 in the musical and comedy act "Bienvenidos", (Welcome). Later, Zeny y Zory, continued performing in different night-clubs throughout the island, presenting Bohemian intimate shows, alternating with several stars such as Sully DiazSully Diaz
Sully Diaz is an American actress and singer born to Christian, Puerto Rican parents. Sully's career started in Puerto Rican television with her first starring role as Coralito in the "novela" called "Coralito"...
, Andy Montañez
Andy Montañez
Andrés Montañez , better known as Andy Montañez, is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico.-Early life:Montañez, like singer Daniel Santos and boxer Ossie Ocasio, is a native of the Tras Talleres area of Santurce San Juan. He is known by the nickname "El Godfather de la Salsa"...
, 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:...
, Danny Rivera
Danny Rivera
Danny Rivera is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter who was born in San Juan whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is well-known in Puerto Rico for his political activism.-Musical career:...
Jr., Chucho Avellanet
Chucho Avellanet
Armando Hipólito Avellanet González , nicknamed "Chucho" is a Puerto Rican singer and comedic actor...
, and with musical directors: Tito Vicente
Tito Vicente
Tito Vicente , 1959 born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is a pianist, keyboardist, and a one man band.-Early years:In 1972, at the age of 12, he started his career as a musician, playing the guitar with Los Romanos , from Ponce...
, Eloy Monrouzeau, and Angel "Cuco" Peña, among many others.
They returned to the record business in 2004, with the album Fuera de control (Out of Control), *GEO Music*, produced and directed in Miami, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
by the Puerto Rican keyboardist
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, "Amaury López". By then, the duet had made their debut in the "Tropicoro" nightclub, at the Wyndham-San Juan Hotel & Casino on Isla Verde, Carolina. Since then, they have performed their Bohemia act in many nightclubs in Puerto Rico: "Isleos Club", "El Bodegón de Gaspar", "Piacere Club House", "Mozart Cafe", and "Amadeus Bistro" among others.
In February 2007, they travelled to Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, to perform on Valentine's Day at the "Citrus Crown Ball Room", in the "Double Tree Hotel", alongside Sully Diaz
Sully Diaz
Sully Diaz is an American actress and singer born to Christian, Puerto Rican parents. Sully's career started in Puerto Rican television with her first starring role as Coralito in the "novela" called "Coralito"...
, and Danny Rivera
Danny Rivera
Danny Rivera is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter who was born in San Juan whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is well-known in Puerto Rico for his political activism.-Musical career:...
Jr.
Later, in March 2007, they were part of the star cast of the bohemia spectacle: "Concierto y Bohemia bajo las Estrellas", (Concert & Bohemia Beneath the Stars), with 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:...
and "Jose Juan Tañón", staged at Plaza Colón, in Old San Juan.
Presently, they've been performing in various night clubs throughout Puerto Rico, such as "Petra Café Teatro" in the tourist county of Miramar, and "La Tasca de David" at El Señorial.
In October 2007 they were featured in the BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
Noche Bohemia Showcase in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York, at the S.O.B's. Club, as the closing star act. Zeny & Zory performed, singing their latest releases as songwriters. Later during this month, the Beveraggi's traveled to Mexico to open a new night club alongside 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....
.
In November 2007 they're featured in the i Piaceri exclusive club located at the Three Little Nuns Industrial Section in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico with their new act called: Bohemia Acústica y Rumba Flamenca.
In February 2008, this show was performed at three different nightclub
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
s: El Mariachi, Petra Café Teatro & El Bodegón de Gaspar.
Presently, they're filming a pilot
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
series for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
in Puerto Rican locations.
Sol Carbone
Sol, Daughter of Zeny Beveraggi, was born on August 28, 1991. She discovered her voice at the age of six and started recording when she was 15. She also plays the piano, guitar and writes her own songs. Two of her songs are titled "Acariciame Sin Frio" (Caress me without cold) and "Por que No Nos Damos Otra Oportunidad?" (Why Don't We Give Ourselves Another Chance?). She is currently recording her demo CD.See also
- Music of Puerto RicoMusic of Puerto RicoThe music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by the Spanish, African, Taíno Indians, France, and the United States, and has become very popular across the Caribbean and across the globe...
- List of Famous Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Rican songwriters