Alequín / First Time
With "so much pride in" doing his work as a maid while watching submerged in a bucket full of dirt ring the certifying graduation from high school in administration companies.
with "passion" trained dozens of girls who pursued his dream of becoming famous singers while it seemed to vanish. With
"Tremendous courage" made a living in New York to return to Puerto Rico to bet their talent in a race where I knew I would have strong contenders.
"Bad" is not it, says Diomary. The bad is life, sending evidence, contradictions, negative situations ...
Find more details on the competition, "Although, on second thought, no, life is not bad. She's good, because it gives us all that to teach us to turn it into positive. If it were not so, I did not have the strong personality I have now, "muses the performer.
The reality TV participant I sing (EN TV and Telemundo of Puerto Rico), which have since dubbed "the Poor" for his dramatic presentations, visited the market place in Rio Piedras to alleviate the nostalgia of meeting with his fellow Dominicans.
Interrupted by dozens of fans in search of kisses and the temptation to put in their mouths the cup of death and dreaming of mangú mound that faces it, the singer's 41-year-old recalls her journey as an immigrant to highlight the message never surrender to the possibility of a dream in foreign homelands.
"I was a maid. I also had to be 'Dominican', and did so with much pride, "he says on the label which is to neglect many Dominicans who exercise that office in Puerto Rico.
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Peña's mother and wife of Irving Castillo Peña that he left his native San Francisco de Macoris 20 years ago for health reasons, he suffers from chronic allergies.
"I came to this beautiful island, having just graduated from business administration, got the job was cleaning. I met people, families where I was going with my mother were here, mom Elena, mom Edith, who is Puerto Rican, "narrates.
"Until one day, in a house, there was a piano. To find out, you lay down the powder or excited me, and the owners of the house asked me, 'You play piano? ", as they could not believe that a Dominican I could play piano," he exclaims.
When I had almost given up his dream to pursue music, a door opened where you least imagine. After playing Fur Elise, Beethoven, Diomary eventually undermine the stereotype barrier, so from that moment became the piano teacher of the children of the owners.
"That's for you to see that God has a plan and the essence that he puts on you, always imposed on the facts," he says.
evil, brings good
of both detergent and keyboard, however, was "bad" and the idea was to run away from the cause of allergies. So we raised money and moved to New York.
"And again the hard times, those moments where you have to sleep on the train, where you have $ 2 in your pocket and you say: 'Do you keep it to pay for what? Does the meal, a shirt or rent? "He says.
"Then one day, I went to see a friend who sang in a room and invited me to sing, and since 1994, formally dedicate myself to this," he adds.
result, their blood was directed into his musical vein of business, so I started filling a pot (piggy) until he had found a karaoke company in which trained many of the participants of the former talent show Objetivo Fama, also is television.
"Also, I showgirl Sophy Puerto Rican singer for 10 years, and I was happy because I was doing music, but left without reaching a goal," he describes.
It's his dream to record an album, which completely broke after the failure of the first, which does not even remember the title.
And the way I led her to sing, that production was "deeply grateful "for giving an opportunity to retake that goal at 41 years of age.
"The reality of the immigrant is not easy. Is a person who comes out of his shell, not necessarily for economic or political reasons. When you migrate, you show great courage because he has to cope with a sea of \u200b\u200bprejudice and systems, and we must endure "he analyzes.
As has lived so long, every song has something that identifies and makes it go "on a journey", the origin of the intensity scenic prints in his interpretations.
also has experience "turning bad into good" so he loves them touches symphonic to meringues and unexpected colors to shades of ballads.
"First of all, I'm Dominican and, although I've never traveled illegally, I recognize so many positive things that the Dominicans have done here (in Puerto Rico). I am proud to be Dominican and my community know that it has contributed to their work. For my part, I'm going to do with music, "says semiaguados eyes.
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