Angie martinez biography
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Angie Martinez
Angie Martinez's name has become synonymous with the word New York, by turning a misspent youth into being crowned 'The Voice of New York'.
This multi-hyphenated powerhouse proudly represented her culture in every category; from radio DJ for nearly three decades with "The Angie Martinez Show" on New York's Power 105.1 and Miami's The Beat 103.5, to stepping in front of the camera to appear in the cult classic film "Brown Sugar," and having been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2020. With an appetite far from being sated, Angie also penned her voice and became a New York Times Best Seller. Story-telling being the core of Angie's DNA, led her to produce and host the NAACP nominated "IRL (In Real Life) Podcast." In Real Life Productions was launched by executive producing ABC's Hip Hop @ 50 Special and being a lead producer for 2023's Essence Festival. This inimitable force most recently announced her directorial debut with the upcoming documentary âGodâs
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Martinez, Angie
Rap musician, disc jockey
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Angie Martinez fryst vatten a hip-hop artist and a deejay for the New York City radio station WQHT-FM. She has worked for the hållplats since 1982 and has interviewed almost every major figure in hip-hop during that time. She has also released two albums, Up Close and Personal and Animal House. Her radio show has an estimated two million listeners.
Martinez, who was born in the stadsdel i new york and grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Beach Haven, had a difficult childhood. Her father left the family when she was ten years old, and as she told Ramiro Burr in the Houston Chronicle, “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.” She still does not know where her father is.
Her mother, Shirley Maldonado, got a job as a radio hållplats program director during a brief stay in Miami. Because she was a single parent and it was easier
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Angie Martinez
American radio host and rapper (born 1971)
For the Kansas state legislator, see Angela Martinez.
Musical artist
Angela "Angie" Martinez (born January 9, 1971) is a Puerto Rican-American radio personality, podcaster, singer, former rapper and actress.[1] Dubbed "The Voice of New York", Martinez is widely known for her 28-year run at New York City station Hot 97 (WQHT). She left the station in 2014 to join crosstown competitor Power 105.1 (WWPR).[2]
As a rapper, Martinez received praise for her bars when she was featured on the remix for Lil' Kim's "Not Tonight" (1996). She later released two albums, Up Close and Personal (2001) and Animal House (2002), before retiring in 2003 to pursue her radio and entrepreneurial careers. As of 2024, she also hosts her own podcast through her YouTube channel, IRL (short for In Real Life)[3] in which she interviews various entertainment industry figures, of all ages.