Famous Latinx Birthdays

¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Alejandra Espinoza! (1987-       ) Photo from huffingtonpost.com. Click HERE .  A Mexican model and TV presenter who won Univisión's Nuestra Belleza Latina in 2007 and went on to work on El Gordo y La Flaca (often stepping in for Lili Estefan) and Sábado Gigante , Espinoza was one of ten children born to mother Rosa María in Tijuana. As a teenager she worked in a McDonald's and was promoted to manager by the time she was 17. Nonetheless, she had dreams of being an actress and thus entered Nuestra Belleza México in 2006, coming in third. The next year, she entered Nuestra Belleza Latina in the first year of the competition and won (the prize was a car and $50,000, plus a contract for $40,000 a year that allowed her to pursue her dream of working in entertainment). She had just turned 20 years old. El Gordo y La Flaca and Sábado Gigante followed, along with work presenting on the shows La Banda and La Reina de La Canción . In 201...

¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Luis Comunica (Luis Arturo Villar Sudek)! (1991-     ) Photo from eluniversal.com. Click HERE .  Luis Arturo Villar Sudek, better known as Luisito Comunica, is a Mexican vlogger who since first posting in 2012 has amassed some 1.5 billion views of his videos. Born in Puebla, Mexico, he learned to play piano at a young age and started his first YouTube channel, Piano Para Gente Cool (Piano for Cool People), to upload tutorials. He moved on from that channel (and from a job teaching at a high school in Puebla) and on to Luisito Comunica in 2012, after his friend invited him to move to Mexico City and work at the advertising agency where he worked. His videos, usually about 10 minutes in length, combine travel with humor, street interviews, and off-the-cuff insights. Though he started filming only in Mexico, now that he is famous he travels around the world and has posted videos from Spain, Bangladesh, South Korea, and more. Click HERE to ...