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Luz Nereida Velez (born October 6, 1955)[1] is a Puerto Rican television news reporter. Velez is known to Puerto Rican television audiences for being an anchorwoman on the WAPA-TV news show, "Noticentro 4", having worked there for more than 40 years.

Early life

Velez grew up in the western Puerto Rico town of Mayaguez. There, she used to play with a recorder and microphone at her family's house. She would practice talking about news and play music with this recorder.

Velez excelled in school, becoming a member of a group for very intelligent students. She was accepted, at the young age of 15, to the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, from where she hoped to graduate with a medical degree as a surgeon. It was while there that she got her first job as an anchorwoman, when she was hired by a local radio station named WOLE, which covered the areas of Mayaguez and Aguadilla.

Velez then traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she lived for a period. Velez wanted to enroll at Syracuse University, but she decided, during a vacation trip to Puerto Rico, to telephone WAPA-TV from San Juan's airport and ask if there were any internships available. During the drive from Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, to her hometown of Mayaguez, Velez told her father to detour and make a stop at the WAPA-TV building. There, she was interviewed by their news director, a man named Bill Perez. She was offered a screen test and soon she was contracted by the station.[2]

In 1974, at the age of 19, Velez joined Noticentro 4 as a television news reporter.[3] She soon became a celebrity in Puerto Rico. Originally, she worked the show's afternoon and nightly editions. As the show later expanded into having a morning edition too ("Noticentro al Amanecer") she also began working the morning edition of the show. As of 2022, Velez had spent 48 years as a television newscaster.

Later on

On June 13, 2022, Velez, along with Sylvia Gomez, Cyd Marie Fleming and Eddie Miro (who received a Gold Circle Award for his fifty years on Puerto Rican television) was recognized with a Silver Circle Emmy award for her 48 years as a television reporter.[4]

Luz Nereida Vélez, from Noticentro 4, interviews Puerto Rican cartoonist John Rivas during 2012.

Personal life

Velez grew up in a house where both Spanish and English were spoken and encouraged as languages by her parents. She is bilingual, having learned English by practicing it one hour every day as a young girl.

Velez met Ovi Ramos, a singer 23 years her junior, during 2016. Ramos is a singer for a rock band named La Novena.[5] A couple of years later, the couple had separated.[6]

Velez has a daughter who is a noted singer and internet influencer named Alhanna. Alhanna released her first album, named "De Rumba", during 2019.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Luz Nereida Vélez celebra hoy sus 65 años". Primera Hora (in Spanish). October 8, 2020.
  2. ^ Pérez, Dennise Y. "Luz Nereida Vélez: la noticia ante la cámara y su dura realidad tras de ella". www.noticel.com (in Spanish).
  3. ^ "Luz Nereida Vélez agradecida de estar 48 años frente a la cámaras". El Nuevo Día (in Spanish). March 15, 2022.
  4. ^ "Reconocen la trayectoria de Cyd Marie Fleming, Sylvia Gómez, Luz Nereida Vélez y Eddie Miró". El Nuevo Día (in Spanish).
  5. ^ "Este es el novio de Luz Nereida Vélez". Metro Puerto Rico.
  6. ^ "Luz Nereida Vélez rompe el silencio tras ruptura amorosa". Metro Puerto Rico (in Spanish).
  7. ^ "Hija de Luz Nereida Vélez lanza su primer sencillo". www.wapa.tv (in Spanish).
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