For nearly 3 decades Angie Martinez has
been a radio talk show host, actress and hip-hop artist. Among the
celebrates she has interviewed are such icons as Tupac, Kanye West
and Mariah Carey. Her acting career has seen her star with Rosie
Perez, Queen Latifah and Lucie Arnaz.
Outside of all the fame there is much
about Ms. Martinez’s life. The following are just 5 of those facts:
In late 2014 Ms.
Martinez joined forces with Chef Angelo Sosa to write “Healthy
Latin Eating: our family recipes remixed”. The cookbook was
released in January of this year and features traditional Latin
cuisine and gives it a healthy twist. For Ms. Martinez it was a labor
of love and Chef Sosa uses his impressive culinary knowledge to give
substitutions to reduce the fat and carbohydrates while still giving
us those rich flavors we all love about Latin food.
Ms. Martinez ran
the 2014 New York marathon where she raise over $40,000 for C.C.
Sabathia's pitCCh in foundation. The charity helps inner city youths
by providing baseball clinics, giving school supplies with their
backpack program and act as a secret Santa.
In 2002 Ms.
Martinez was called on to be a judge on the talent show “American
Idol”. She thought that it was cruel to be expected to crush the
dreams of the contestants. So, she left after just two episodes of
the audition phase of the show.
“Some
girl burst into tears when Angie rejected her at the auditions, and
Angie quit,” Martinez’s manager explained. “She just couldn’t
crush the contestants’ dreams.”
When
Ms. Martinez was in her early teens he mother, Shirley Maldonado,
worked as a program director and would often take Angie to work with
her. Angie would pay attention and learn the day-to-day operations. A
couple of years later, at age 16, when her mom would send her to
Miami to stay with relatives she took what she learned and interned
at a radio station.
The
1980's were a rough time for both Angie Martinez and her mother. When
Angie was only 10 her father left the family. In an interview with
the Houston
Chronicle
Ms. Martinez looked back on those years and commented, “I
think that has made a lot of aspects of my life a little more
difficult than they needed to be, but I’m doing all right.”
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