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'''Marina Kapoor''', [[stage name]] of '''Marina Quispe Pérez''' ([[Lima]], [[December 23|23 December]] [[1987]]), is a Peruvian singer, actress, and activist for the rights of [[transgender]] people.<ref>{{Citation |last=García |first=Gabriela |title=Mamá, me llamo Marina |date=2019-12-08 |url=https://somosperiodismo.com/mama-me-llamo-marina/ |work=Somos Periodismo}}</ref>
'''Marina Kapoor''', [[stage name]] of '''Marina Quispe Pérez''' ([[Lima]], [[December 23|23 December]] [[1987]]), is a Peruvian singer, actress, and activist for the rights of [[transgender]] people.<ref>{{Citation |last=García |first=Gabriela |title=Mamá, me llamo Marina |date=2019-12-08 |url=https://somosperiodismo.com/mama-me-llamo-marina/ |work=Somos Periodismo}}</ref>



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Marina Kapoor
Marina Quispe Pérez
Photograph of Marina Kapoor holding a microphone
Marina Kapoor in 2017
Born (1987-12-23) December 23, 1987 (age 36)
NationalityPeruvian
Occupations

Marina Kapoor, stage name of Marina Quispe Pérez (Lima, 23 December 1987), is a Peruvian singer, actress, and activist for the rights of transgender people.[1]

Biography

At 15 years old, Kapoor came out as a gay man. Four years later, at 19, she came out and transitioned as a trans woman.[2]

At age 19 in 2007 before her transition, she first appeared on television on Trampolín Latino, which she won.[3]

Kapoor is a singer and an actress.[4][5] Her first role in film was in Sin vagina, me marginan, a 2017 camp film directed by Wesley Verástegui, in which Kapoor played La Microbio, a transgender full-service sex worker. It was one of the first Peruvian films to have two trans people as protagonists, since it shared the main role with the model Javiera Arnillas. In 2020, she was cast in the movie El niño que no quería matar.[6] In 2022,she played the protagonist in the film Un romance singular, playing Tifanny.[2][7]

In 2018, she participated in the television contest Los cuatro finalistas with the song "Ven mi amor" by Chacalón.[5] In 2019, she published her first single, "Esta es mi fiesta", composed for the documentary film Miss Amazonas.[2] As a professional impersonator of Laura León, she has participated in the Peruvian reality television show Yo soy since 2020.[8][9]

In February 2020, she denounced Dina Boluarte through a book and police report for transphobic treatment when the Peruvian president was head of the RENIEC office in the Surco district.[10]

Filmography

Movies

Television

Discography

Singles

  • "Tenemos razón" (colaboración)[11]
  • "Esta es mi fiesta"

References

  1. ^ García, Gabriela (2019-12-08), "Mamá, me llamo Marina", Somos Periodismo
  2. ^ a b c Ferrari, Vero (2019-11-13), "Kapoor, la artista que desafía al transoodio: «Estamos exigiendo derechos»", Agencia Presentes
  3. ^ El sueño de Marina Kapoor en La Voz Perú (in European Spanish), retrieved 2022-06-15
  4. ^ García, Gabriela (2019-12-08). ""Mamá, me llamo Marina"". Somos Periodismo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  5. ^ a b "Los cuatro finalistas: cantante transgénero sorprendió al jurado con presentación". Ojo (in Spanish). 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  6. ^ "El niño que no quería matar: fecha de estreno y todo sobre la cinta peruana LGBT". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  7. ^ "Cinta peruana "Un romance singular" se estrena este seis de enero". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  8. ^ GrupoRPP (2020-12-14). "Laura León envía emotivo mensaje a su imitadora en "Yo Soy": "Tesoro, me siento muy orgullosa de ti"". RPP (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  9. ^ LR, Redacción (2020-12-20). "Yo soy: Marina Kapoor, imitadora de Laura León, impacta cantando "Tusa"". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  10. ^ "Activista transexual dio detalles sobre denuncia contra Dina Boluarte". canaln.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  11. ^ ""Tenemos razón": la canción que une a 21 artistas peruanas en el Día de la Mujer". wapa.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-15.

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