Famous Latinx Birthdays

Photo from earnthenecklace.com. Click HERE .  ¡Feliz cumpleaños a Anaís! (1984-         ) A singer from the Dominican Republic who gained fame when she won the Puerto Rican reality show Objetivo Fama in 2005 (click HERE to see her final act), Anaís then released her debut album, Así soy yo , in 2006. The album earned a Latin Grammy nomination. That same year she recorded a song for the FIFA World Cup, Arriba Arriba , with Pablo Montero, Mariana Seoane, and Ana Bárbara (click HERE to see the video). In 2007 Anaís released the album Con todo mi corazón . Her live performance of Como tu mujer at a televised tribute to Mexican singer Marco Antonio Solis was widely hailed as the best performance of the night (click HERE ). Anaís is currently recording in English as well as Spanish. In 2017, she joined the cast of Love and Hip Hop: New York for season 8 of the show. Anaís and her husband have two young sons. See her interviewed in Univisión in 2016 HER...

Photo from latina.com. Click HERE .  ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Prince Royce (Geoffrey Royce Rojas)! (1989-     ) An American singer and songwriter with Dominican roots who was born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Prince Royce has won 19 Billboard Latin Music Awards and 17 Premios Lo Nuestro , along with a host of other honors. He started by performing bachata (a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century and has elements of Indigenous, African, and European music) but has ventured into other types of music in recent albums (read more in this 2015 New York Times article about his first all English album). Royce started writing poetry and music at the age of 13. The second oldest of four children, he was raised by his father, a taxi driver, and his mother, a beauty salon owner. He saved the thousands of dollars needed to produce his first demo by working at Sprint. Recently, he began working with Sprint again...