Jailene Cintrón, on recordings credited as Jailene
(born 28 May 1966 in
Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rican merengue singer and recording artist, as well as a TV personality and entertainer.
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, ''Los archivos de la Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular''. Retrieved 28 September 2011, (in Spanish).
She was the female co-host of the talk and variety show ''
No te Duermas'' from 1991 to 1996. She is currently one of the co-hosts of ''
Pégate al Mediodía''.
Her 1999 album ''Encontré el amor'' was among the four works nominated for the 2000
Grammy Award for Best Merengue Album The Grammy Award for Best Merengue music, Merengue Album was awarded from 2000 to 2003. In its first year the award was titled Best Merengue Performance. In 2004 this award was combined with the award for Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album, Best Sal ...
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Personal life
Cintrón married businessman José Juan Arce in the late 90s. The couple has two daughters together.
Awards
Lo Nuestro Awards
The
Lo Nuestro Awards
The Lo Nuestro Awards or Premios Lo Nuestro (Spanish language, Spanish for "Ours") is a Spanish-language awards show honoring the best of Latin music (genre), Latin music, presented by TelevisaUnivision, and is carried by its Univision network in ...
are awarded annually by television network
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...
in the United States. Cintrón has received one award from four nominations.
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1997
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* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
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1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
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Discography
* 1995: ''Jailene'', EMI Latin
* 1996: ''Como Toda Mujer'', EMI Latin
* 1996: ''Es Navidad'', EMI Latin
* 1997: ''Aquí Estoy'', EMI Latin
* 1998: ''Encontré el Amor'', EMI Latin
* 2005: ''Sólo Por Ti''
See also
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List of Puerto Ricans
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References
1966 births
Living people
Grammy Award winners
Merengue musicians
People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican expatriates in Spain
Puerto Rican television personalities
20th-century Puerto Rican women singers
20th-century Puerto Rican singers
21st-century Puerto Rican women singers
21st-century Puerto Rican singers
Women in Latin music
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