NSR: Salvadorans in the media

[el_cuscatleco]

This thread is made in order to post updates on Salvadorans (either within El Salvador or somewhere else) that are donig big things and making a name for themselves in the media.

Examples would be Allison Iraheta (American Idol), any other singers, actors, journalists, activists, writers etc.

Avoid posting any sports related information as that has it's own thread. To navigate to the sports related thread click here (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1061532).

[GUANACO1]

THis Salvi girl made the top 4 in AMerican Idol

I frankly dont watch the show, but im there is more Salvies making it happen.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1610257/20090429/story.jhtml

[el_cuscatleco]

Yeah i don't watch the show either but i've been keeping track of it lately to see how she's was going.

Many think she should have made it atleast the the top 2, but what can you do. It's probabaly best she went out at this stage though as i've heard American Idol winners don't do to well after the show ends (except Clarkson), while some of the others in the top eight usually do alright. So hopefully that happens with her.

On a different note, i'm contemplating making a El Salvador NSR thread so that info like this can go there. Anyone have any objections? If not, i'll create the new thread, move these posts there and delete this thread.

[*E*S*2*]

:eek:WOW SHE HOT

[GUANACO1]

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/06/10/allison-iraheta-signs-a-record-deal/

American Idol (http://tvwatch.people.com/category/american-idol/)
Allison Iraheta Signs a Record Deal (http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/06/10/allison-iraheta-signs-a-record-deal/)

June 10, 2009
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2009/news/090518/allison_iraheta2_240.jpgAfter making it to the top 4 (http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/05/06/american-idol-its-down-to-three/) of American Idol, Allison Iraheta has signed a record deal with 19 Recordings and Jive Records.
“I think I’m still in shock that this is happening,” Iraheta, now 17, who is the show’s youngest contestant to make the top 12, said in a statement. “Getting to record my first album and this whole awesome experience is a dream come true!”
Idol’s creator and executive producer, Simon Fuller, said, “Allison is an incredible young singer. She is without a doubt one of the best teenage singers American Idol has ever discovered. We all watched Allison grow in confidence and stature as she performed each week on the show and we can only imagine how far this special girl can continue to blossom in the years ahead.”
Barry Weiss, the CEO of RCA/Jive label group also commented on Iraheta, who is the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants and lives in Downey, Calif. “Her bluesy, powerful voice, spunky attitude, and edgy star power immediately captivated us and it didn’t matter where she ranked on Idol,” he said in the statement, “we knew we wanted her to join our amazing crop of young talent at Jive.”
Iraheta will join American Idol winner (http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/06/08/kris-allen-signs-record-deal/) Kris Allen, runner-up (http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/06/09/adam-lambert-signs-record-deal/) Adam Lambert — who both also announced record deals this week — and the rest of the show’s finalists on the Idols Live Tour, which kicks off July 5 in Portland, Ore.
Her debut album is expected in the fall.

[GUANACO1]

Scarred Iraq war veteran inspires on TV and in life (http://www.bigsoccer.com/photos/2009/05/19/16776043/260xStory.jpg)


http://www.bigsoccer.com/photos/2009/05/19/16776043/260xStory.jpg


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/6439518.html

At 19, J.R. Martinez left Iraq in a coma, with burns from a land mine covering 40 percent of his body.
When the young soldier woke up, he was in Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, and it was three weeks later. He would undergo 32 surgeries in 2½ years before doctors would declare him fixed.
Relatively.
“I was a mess,” says Martinez, 25. “But now I’m a message. Hey, I’m a walking billboard.”
He also has a forum that the 31,000 other wounded Iraq War troops don’t have. Martinez plays himself — a scarred Iraq veteran — in the popular soap opera All My Children, and he travels across the country as a motivational speaker.
With a twist.
The flash fire that engulfed him spared his eyes and his smile. But almost all of the skin on his face, chest, arms and hands melted away, to be replaced by a patchwork of grafts. One ear has a piece missing; one is simply gone.
The result?
Martinez seems so comfortable in his new skin that the scars seem not to matter — or they spur him on. He’s been on Oprah, The View, CNN and 60 Minutes, trying to give meaning to the experience that almost took his life.
Simple messages sound profound when he utters them: Have hope; be resilient; focus on inner beauty, not outer.
Most recently Martinez was in Houston to help raise money for homes for veterans and to speak to vulnerable teens. Over two weekends, he shared his story many times.
He was born to a single, Salvadoran mother in Shreveport, La. The best way to help her family, she thought, was to work in the United States and send money home.
In time, mother and son moved from Shreveport to Hope, Ark., to Dalton, Ga.
Martinez, a senior in high school then, dreamed of being a professional football player, and he was convinced that Dalton was the perfect springboard.
‘Fuse had been lit’

When he got to college, however, an adviser pulled him up short. His high school grades were so poor he wouldn’t be eligible to play for at least two years.
Martinez vacillated between regret and anger. In the end, he dropped out and joined the Army.
That was in September 2002. By the following April, Martinez was working security in a convoy bound for an area just north of Baghdad. He was behind the wheel of the Humvee when he heard the boom and felt a horrific heat wave start at his feet and move up to his face. Three buddies were able to escape.
“I’m grateful they got out,” he says simply.
When he was finally pulled free, his sergeant rocked him like a baby.
“I kept asking, ‘What’s wrong with my face?’ And he would knock my hand away,” Martinez says. “I could hear the fear in his voice.”
When Martinez arrived at the Army hospital, the staff scrubbed off dead skin during grueling daily showers.
He remembers crying and yelling, “Why are you doing this to me? I don’t even know you!”
Martinez also remembers the first time he saw his burned face.
“I thought I was ready. I wasn’t.”
It was his mother, his most loyal friend and nurse, who decided the pity party had gone on long enough.
She called him by his full name, Jose Rene Martinez, and she had more to say in Spanish.
Martinez says, “I thought, ‘Oh, Lord, the fuse has been lit.’ ”
What also lifted his spirits was his first visit home to Dalton. The passengers on the plane gave him a standing ovation. And though he feared his old friends would be afraid of him, they greeted him with parades, welcome-home speeches, hugs and kisses.
Back at the hospital, Martinez started visiting other patients. He was delighted to find that he was good at making them feel better. And in the process, he felt better, too.
When Martinez finally was discharged from Brooke, he launched his motivational speaking career. He spoke at military gatherings, churches, burn camps for kids. Word got out, and last August he got a message on his Blackberry. The casting director of All My Children was looking for an injured vet, not an actor, to play a role on the show.
Landing the part

About 600 tried out for the part, but Martinez nailed it. Nine months later, he’s still enjoying life in Manhattan, where the show is produced.
Life is good, he says, and tells a story about four little girls stopping him on the street. When he turned around, he saw 40 or 50 people lined up for his autograph, too.
“People look to me for encouragement and hope,” Martinez says. “As long as I’ve got the strength, they can hold on to me.”
Martinez glances at his wrist to check the watch that is actually a tattoo. That one strip of skin wasn’t burned but protected by a real watch.
It’s a coincidence, he thinks, that the accident happened at 2:30 p.m., and that’s the same time he was born.
No question, he sees the fire as the start of something new.

[el_cuscatleco]

A weeklong series of multimedia events in downtown L.A. attempts to bring the country's murky history out of the shadows.......

Link: El Salvador reclaiming its past (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-el-salvador23-2009oct23,0,5420105.story?track=rss)

[el_cuscatleco]

A weeklong series of multimedia events in downtown L.A. attempts to bring the country's murky history out of the shadows.......

Link: El Salvador reclaiming its past (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-el-salvador23-2009oct23,0,5420105.story?track=rss)

You guys in LA should go check it out, it looks interesting :)

[el_cuscatleco]

http://newsroom.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/iraheta_400.jpg


It was just last night that a representative for 19 Entertainment confirmed to MTV News that former "American Idol" contestant Allison Iraheta's debut album would be called Just Like You.......

Link: Allison Iraheta Unveils Album Cover (http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/10/20/allison-iraheta-just-like-you-cover/)

[el_cuscatleco]

El cantante salvadoreño Arquímedes Reyes presentará su nuevo álbum "Sobreviviendo", en el programa mexicano Sin Reservas de Ritmoson Latino.......

Link: Arquímedes Reyes presenta su álbum debut (http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=6461&idArt=3891532)

[AguiluchoMerengue]

the ones i know of.

- edie one = los angeles hip hop radio station

- racsy = los angeles hip hop radio station

- fernando palomo = espn deportes, commentator of real madrid and barcelona games with celebrities such as Mario Kempes (world champion with argentina).

- elmer polanco = fox sports en espanol, comentator of epl and serie a games.

- there is another salvadoran in the morning program with el piolin in LA, this is a program that has a nationally followed by millions of hispanics in the US.

cant think on anybody else right now.

[el_cuscatleco]

El poeta salvadoreño residente en Canadá, Alfonso Quijada Urías, conocido como Kijadurías, fue reconocido con el máximo galardón otorgado por el Estado en el área de cultura, el Premio Nacional de Cultura, que en este año por primera vez se otorgó a un poeta.......

Link: Kijadurías gana el Premio Nacional de Cultura (http://www.laprensagrafica.com/fama/cultura/70752-kijadurias-gana-el-premio-nacional-de-cultura.html)

Alfonso Quijada Urías, "Kijadurías", originario de Quezaltepeque, ganó el Premino Nacional de la Cultura en la rama de poesía.......

Link: "Kijadurías" gana Premio Nacional de Cultura (http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=6482&idArt=4217861)

[el_cuscatleco]

El Salvador podría obtener hoy su primer Grammy Latino, el premio más prestigioso de la música en castellano y portugués, si la cantante Lucía Parker gana en la categoría de mejor álbum cristiano.......

Link: Muy cerca del primer Grammy Latino (http://www.laprensagrafica.com/el-salvador/lodeldia/70868-muy-cerca-del-primer-grammy-latino.html)

[el_cuscatleco]

http://newsroom.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/iraheta_400.jpg


It was just last night that a representative for 19 Entertainment confirmed to MTV News that former "American Idol" contestant Allison Iraheta's debut album would be called Just Like You.......

Link: Allison Iraheta Unveils Album Cover (http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/10/20/allison-iraheta-just-like-you-cover/)

Allison Iraheta - Friday I'll Be Over U (Official video)

Allison Iraheta - Friday I'll Be Over U (Spanish version)