Pili Montilla is a Puerto Rican

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and producer.

Career

She works as a TV host for several networks in both the Hispanic and general audience, as a live host for different events and brands, and has worked for

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and Starbucks. She created, produced and hosted the Emmy-award-winning show "Té Para Tres con Pili Montilla" on Mega TV, where she spends a day in the life of Latin musicians. The show has been nominated for a number of Emmy awards and in 2015 won in the Magazine Show category. In her native Puerto Rico, Montilla was an MTV

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for over three years, interviewing stars including Gwen Stefani,

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and

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. She then joined the national, bilingual network

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in Los Angeles, hosting shows including "En Concierto" and "En la Zona". After LATV, Montilla became the entertainment reporter the

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show

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. She was also the entertainment reporter and producer for various outlets including the award-winning national shows American Latino and LatiNation. Other hosting credits include MTV,

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and E! Latino. She was featured in the 2013 comedy

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alongside

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and

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. In 2014 she appeared in the horror film '' Unknowns'' (''Desconocidos'') with

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and

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, and has also featured in television series

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and Dueña Y Señora. In 2017 and 2018 Montilla hosted the

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's event for

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and has hosted BMI's Los Producers charity event during the Latin Grammy's for three years in a row. In 2019 she co-hosted the 2019

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Red Carpet Pre-Show with Carlos Adyan. She's been the red carpet host for

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's Vulture Festival, in both New York and Los Angeles, for

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for the past two years. She has been invited to speak at conferences including SXSW, NALIP,

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, LAMC and Hispanicize where she also hosted the TECLA Awards. Montilla's latest project is "Pili, Raúl & La Música" an uncensored, bilingual Latin music podcast she created, hosts and produces alongside DJ Raúl Campos. She has also acted as a social media influencer for the American Heart Association.

References

External links

5 Latinos Forging New Ground and Breaking Barriers
NBC News
Burning Man 2017 in pictures
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