Sonia Noemi, (born July 18, 1941 as Sonia Noemí González), is a
Puerto Rican actress and singer. She is one of the pioneers of the ballad pop song in Puerto Rico.
Biography
Noemí was raised in
Old San Juan
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and when she was thirteen moved to
Rio Piedras.
She went to California in 1962 in order to train at the Pasadena Playhouse Studio, returning to Puerto Rico after a year.
In 2003, she moved to
Miami
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, where she has worked in
telenovelas
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. She has a son with
Venezuelan
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singer, Hector Cabrera.
Discography
Alfred D. Herger was the producer of her first album: "Si yo fuera una reina" (If I were a Queen), *Sona-Rico, SR-1*. Sonia's hit single was "El rebelde", a Spanish version of the hit song "He's a Rebel", from
The Crystals
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.
Her second album was with the
RCA-Victor
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record label in Mexico: "Baladas y boleros" (Ballads and Boleros), *MKL - 1626*. The hit single was "El Día" (The Day), written by the
Mexican
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** People
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composer: "Luis Demetrio".
Her third album, and second for
RCA-Victor
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in Mexico, was "Baladas y boleros con Sonia Noemí", *MKL - 1627*. Sonia Noemí later recorded a fourth album, "Mi regreso" (My Comeback), produced by her and Canal 4 Recording Studios with the collaboration of
Lou Briel, *LAG, LP-1010*.
Film
Noemí, performed the leading roles of three films: "Dios te Salve Siquiatra", (May God Save you, Psychiatrist), the first Cuban motion picture filmed in the United States (Miami, Florida), produced and directed by Cuban comedian:
Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, "El Curandero del Pueblo", (The Healing-man of the Town), starring with,
Adalberto Rodriguez, "Machuchal", and
Creature from the Haunted Sea, a
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works t ...
film.
See also
*
List of Puerto Ricans
References
External links
Telemundo WebsiteOfficial "Tierra de Pasiones" WebsiteBio
1941 births
Living people
People from Bayamón, Puerto Rico
20th-century Puerto Rican actresses
20th-century Puerto Rican women singers
Puerto Rican film actresses
Puerto Rican telenovela actresses
Puerto Rican television actresses
Puerto Rican television personalities
Television pioneers
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