Dayanara   (Puerto Rico)

EuroDance group
Added : 29/11/2009
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1997

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Dayanara albums

Antifaz

31st Mar 1998

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Dayanara singles

	Blue Shades		BUY X
	Antifaz	1997	BUY X
	Mírame Bailando	1998	BUY X
	Jerigonza	1998	BUY X

Dayanara biography

Dayanara Torres Delgado was born on October 28th, 1974 in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, into a poor family.

Dayanara started her carreer as winning Miss Puerto Rico competition in 1993, then becoming Miss Universe as she was just 18. During and after her reign, she became an ambassador for UNICEF, traveling through Asia and Latin America in support of the organization. She created the Dayanara Torres Foundation which has provided scholarships to poor students in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. In 1994 she went to Manila to crown the new Miss Universe. During the ceremony, she sang A Whole New World as a duet with Peabo Bryson. She received afterwards many offers from local television and movies producers. She settled down in the Philippines and lived there for five years, becoming a celebrity in that country : more than 10 movies, and regular appearances on the TV shows "ASAP" and "Eazy Dancing", which gave her the title "Dancing Queen" because of her impressive dancing skills.

In 1998, she returned to Puerto Rico and released her first and only album called Antifaz, produced by Arturo Diaz and Don Stockwell, released under Tropix Music distributed by Sony BMG. Filled with very nice eurodance tracks, it reached the top of Billboard charts in Latin America and the Philippines, and went platinum in Puerto Rico. The track Jerigonza featured Puerto Rican rapper Ivy Queen.

She also starred in several theater productions on the island. That same year, a "Dayanara" doll was released and sold out in both Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

2005 : she played a small role in the American soap opera, The Young and The Restless.

2006 : she starred in the drama Watch Over Me and co-wrote a book, "Sonrisas Sanas y Hermosas de Ricky y Andrea" with Steven Fink.

2008 : she published the book "Married To Me: How Committing To Myself Led to Triumph After Divorce",that she co-wrote with her sister Jeannette.

2009 : a Spanish translation of her book "Married To Me" was published. She starred in the movie "The Nail".

Dayanara biography was last updated Wed, January 6th 2021

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