Posted by Elena del Valle on April 12, 2010
DeeGee album cover
Photos, song:DeeGeeWorks
Chester (Wilfredo Martes), LuLu (Lourdes Santiago), Papito (Juan Morales) and DeeGee (Miguel Bonilla) known collectively as DeeGee will release DeeGee, their first independent urban Latin music album next month. The first single from the album, Cavernicolas, is being played in radio stations in the United States, Costa Rica, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. Scroll down to listen to Cavernicolas.
Martes, a rapper, is originally from the Domincan Republic. Morales, a native of Brooklyn of Puerto Rican descent, has experience as a tropical music singer in the studio and stage. Santiago, from Puerto Rico, is a vocalist and song writer.
DeeGee (Miguel Bonilla)
Bonilla, originally from Colombia, plays piano and drums, produces, arranges, and handles synth programming for DeeGee. He studied at the Juilliard and Manhattan schools of music. According to promotional materials, in 1990, Bonilla joined the Tito Nieves Orchestra and traveled extensively. Later he was piano player for Marc Anthony’s Band for two years before working with La India. Prior to launching DeeGee’s first album he worked in music production.
Click on the play button to listen to Cavernicolas from the DeeGee album
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 5, 2010
Author Shel Horowitz
Photo: Shel Horowitz
A podcast interview with Author Shel Horowitz is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Shel discusses the issues relating to green marketing based on recently the published book Guerilla Marketing Goes Green, which he coauthored (see Authors share green marketing insights), with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Self described as an ethical and green marketing expert, book shepherd, writer, international speaker, consultant, community organizer, and frugalist Shel’s green efforts began with a one-toddler action against smokers at his parents’ party when he was three years old. Shel has been involved in environmental and social change movements his whole life.
In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed very near New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew). A veteran of the 1977 Seabrook occupation, his first book, written when he was only 22, was about why nuclear power makes no sense. Shel is also the author of the e-book, Painless Green: 111 Tips to Help the Environment, Lower Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Your Budget, and Improve Your Quality of Life-With No Negative Impact on Your Lifestyle.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Shel Horowitz ” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2010 section of the podcast archive.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 22, 2010
William Perez, Ph.D., Author, We Are Americans
Photo: William Perez, Ph.D.
A podcast interview with William Perez, Ph.D., author, We Are Americans Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream (see California professor shares findings on United States undocumented youth) is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, William discusses the issues relating to undocumented students in America based on his recently published book with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Born in San Salvador, El Salvador William came to the United States in the early nineteen eighties at the age of 10 to escape the civil war that began in 1979. He spent his remaining childhood in Pomona, California, attended Pomona College, and later earned a Ph.D. in child and adolescent development from Stanford University.
A professor at Claremont Graduate University, he is an emerging leader on research that examines the social and psychological development of immigrant and Latino students. He strives to brings depth of research experience to the complex problems of academic achievement and higher education access. His research has been funded by the Haynes and Fletcher Jones foundations. He currently lives in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz where he enjoys hiking the trails in nearby Griffith Park. He competes in triathlons and is an avid fan of the local indie-rock scene.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR William Perez” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the March 2010 section of the podcast archive.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 15, 2010
Batista debut album cover
Brooklyn born singer song writer Batista must be feeling pretty good. Batista, his bilingual debut album, is due for national release by Wu Latino very soon. The New York artist of Dominican background described the album as having “scores fused with elements of tropical rhythms favoring bachata, as well as elements of pop/rock and U.S. urban tendencies.” The new recording has 12 tracks in Spanish and English. Scroll down to listen to Todos Unidos, a single from Batista’s album.
The music ranges from bachata, experimental, tropical, bolero and reggaetón. The first single released is the track Dame Tu Amor, a Spanish language variation of the classic Bee Gees hit How Deep is Your Love, rewritten and arranged to a bachata rhythm by Batista. Batista relies on traditional bachata instrumentation, electric guitar and bass, bongó and güira as well as technology via sequences and samples to modernize the bachata sounds, according to promotional materials. The single Todos Unidos was designed to be a tribute to Coldplay’s Viva La Vida.
Batista
“I follow the music, what’s in my heart; I write what I hear internally. One day my inspirations may direct me to write a romantic love song or a bachata and another time an R&B score or a more upbeat composition. It’s all about how I feel at the time and not about using a particular formula to create a song or bind myself to a specific style or form of music,” said Batista. “In this recording, most of the selections that I included are geared towards the tropical market and to the Latin world’s music audiences. In reality, this production is a tribute to my Dominican culture and the music of my parents, which is also a big part of me. As I continue to grow as a songwriter/singer, my other musical colors and flavors will surface, taking me to other stages in other markets.”
As a young man Batista built his own recording studio and learned about the business of music before becoming a producer for local artists. He was influenced he says, by rock, pop, urban and Latin genres and artists such as BonJovi, Inxs, Leo Dan, Camilo Sesto, Social Club and Juan Luis Guerra.
Although the album is not for sale yet,
Dame Tu Amor, a previously released single, which was in the top position on the pool charts for two weeks is available for purchase on iTunes.
Click on the play button to listen to
Todos Unidos from the
Batista album.
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 8, 2010
Author Janet Fouts
Photo: Janet Fouts
A podcast interview with Janet Fouts, author, Social Media Success (see California coach discusses social media basics) is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Janet discusses social media issues based on her recently published book with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Janet, a seasoned entrepreneur, social media coach, author and speaker, co-founded Tatu Digital Media in 1996. She has been active in on-line community and web strategy for over 15 years. Her blog is JanetFouts.com.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Janet Fouts ” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the March 2010 section of the podcast archive.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 22, 2010
Edna Chun, Ph.D., vice president, Broward College
Photo: Edna Chun, Ph.D.
A podcast interview with Edna Chun, Ph.D., vice president, Broward College is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Edna discusses bridging the diversity divide based on a book she co-authored by the same title with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
In her job at Broward College, a large urban community college with four campuses and 60,000 students in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Edna oversees recruitment, professional development, staffing, diversity and affirmative action, employee and labor relations, compensation, records management, and benefits administration for the college. She has over two decades of human resource experience in public research universities in the California, Oregon, and Ohio state university systems. She holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University School of Music.
Edna is co-author, with Alvin Evans, of Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education (see University human resources administrators address diversity) (Jossey-Bass) published in 2009. They also co-authored Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity published as part of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Higher Education Series (Jossey-Bass) two years earlier. The book discusses subtle and covert discrimination in the higher education workplace and provides a systematic institutional approach to diversity and inclusion. It received the Frances G. Hansen Publication Award by the College and University Professional Association for its contribution to the human resource profession at the organization’s 2007 national conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Edna is co-author of articles on talent management, human resource strategies, and diversity published in Hispanic Outlook, Insight into Diversity, and Diverse. She was recently unanimously elected to serve on the editorial board of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She is a regular contributor and member of the editorial board of Insight into Diversity magazine.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Edna Chun, Ph.D.,” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the February 2010 section of the podcast archive.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 8, 2010
Maria Azua, vice president, IBM Enterprise Initiatives
Photo: IBM
A podcast interview with Maria Azua, vice president of Cloud Computing Enablement, IBM Enterprise Initiatives, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Maria discusses Latino culture in social networks and cloud computing with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Maria has deep technical skills and extensive experience in software development, managing new innovation projects, start-ups, acquisitions, solution delivery and process excellence. She is responsible for the technical implementation, deployment and operations of the Common Cloud Platform Living Lab share service, as well as the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. She is also responsible for the creation of a community of independent software vendors, business partners, and technical community that fosters cloud computing IT methodologies and applications.
Maria is also the author of The Social Factor Innovate, Ignite, and Win Through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking (2009 IBM Press, Pearson Education), a book about social networking based on Maria’s leadership in social networking tools at IBM (see IBM Executive discusses social media business benefits).
Prior to her current role, Maria was vice president of Technology and Innovation, reporting to the IBM chief information officer. In that role, she focused on the development of innovative IT solutions and the integration of new technologies. She created and managed the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) innovation program, where more than 120,000 IBM employees participate to create innovations in a development community. Her responsibilities in the CIO office also included the creation of the first IBM Green Data Center.
Maria was inducted into the Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, and was named one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by People magazine in 2006. She has 50 patents and 39 patents pending that span a wide spectrum of technologies. In 2006, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) recognized Maria with The Star Award for her contributions and dedication to the Hispanic community.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Maria Azua,” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the February 2010 section of the podcast archive.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on January 18, 2010
Author Steve Bersman
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A podcast interview with Steve Bergsman, author, After The Fall: Opportunities and Strategies for Real Estate Investing in the Coming Decade is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Steve discusses the recovery of the real estate market in the United States with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
For more than twenty-five years, Steve has written about finance and real estate, contributing to a wide range of magazines, newspapers and wire services, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Sunday, Global Finance, Executive Decision, Chief Executive, The Australian, Investment Dealer’s Digest, Reuters News Service and Copley News Service. He has been a regular contributor to the Ground Floor real estate column in Barron’s and has written for the leading real estate industry publications such as National Real Estate Investor, Institutional Real Estate Letter, Retail Traffic, Multifamily Trends, Real Estate Portfolio, Shopping Center World, Mortgage Banking and Urban Land.
In addition to After The Fall published in 2009, he authored several other books including Maverick Real Estate Investing: The Art of Buying and Selling Properties Like Trump, Zell, Simon and World’s Greatest Land Owners; Maverick Real Estate Financing: The Art of Raising Capital and Owning Properties Like Ross, Sanders, and Carey; and Passport to Exotic Real Estate: Buying U.S. and Foreign Property in Breathtaking, Beautiful and Faraway Lands.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Steve Bergsman” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the January 2010 section of the podcast archive.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on January 4, 2010
Marked 4 Life album cover
Photos, song: HardKandy Records Inc.
L.J. (Stephen Sebastioa) and D-cypl (Chris Collins) were born in Livingston, New Jersey into broken homes. Little did they know that years later life would bring them together. L.J. began rhyming in the Portuguese section of Newark he called home with his friend Vic at the age of 15. D-cypl loved music since he was a little boy and began rhyming when he was 14. Scroll down to listen to Bandeiras Remix, a song from Marked 4 Life, their debut album.
L.J. and D-cypl
In 2000, L.J. and D-cypl teamed up. That same year they met Murdock, a rap entrepreneur that influenced their music, before L.J. went off to college. Two years later, soon after L.J. and D-cypl got together again, they got a break from a record label. They were featured in In The Name of Hip Hop Vol.1. The duo believe in “brotherhood, kindness, and truth.”
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Posted by Elena del Valle on December 14, 2009
Photos: Cecilia Moreno Yaghoubi
A podcast interview with Artist Cecilia Moreno Yaghoubi is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses her strategy in making it in the arts world as well as marketing tactics, initiatives and how to get visibility as an artist with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Social and political imagery, religious iconography, found objects, and mixed media all combine in Cecilia’s work of mix media assemblages with found objects. A Colombian-born artist Cecilia emigrated at a young age with her family to the United States. In time, she earned her Bachelor’s in Business Administration in marketing and began a career in property management. Working and living in the suburbs for the greater part of her life, she decided a little over six years ago to focus on her artwork, create a studio and pursue this venture full-time.
Through a combination of influences, Cecilia’s art has traveled from the lush and beautiful, yet safe and mainstream landscapes of her homeland to the more challenging, riskier mixed media work. Featuring political and social imagery, religious iconography and found objects such as dolls, much of her current work is assembled from flea markets, thrift shops and recycled materials like wood and fabric.
Virgin Mary, Assemblage Found Objects (dimensions 20 X 20 X 8 inches)
In 2005, Cecilia premiered her paintings at “Origenes Latinos/Latin roots” gallery in Chelsea, New York. She has exhibited in New York and Connecticut at the Silvermine Art Center, Westchester Art Workshop, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, the National Academy of Art Museum and at the Colombian Consulate of New York. In Miami, her work has been featured at Opera Gallery and had a solo exhibit, “Girl from Cali,” at the Colombian Consulate in Coral Gables in October 2009. In December 2009, she will be one of 800 artists from around the world invited to exhibit her artwork at the Biennale in Florence, Italy.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Cecilia Moreno Yaghoubi” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the December 2009 section of the podcast archive.
