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Gloria Velez Profile |
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Birth Date: December 18, 1978
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Birth Place: Long Island, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Gloria Velez
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Gloria Velez (born December 18, 1978) is an American bikini
model, former Hip Hop model, dancer, hip hop and r&b artist
and actress who is a native of Long Island, New York. She is
of Puerto Rican descent. She has been reported to have a son
with singer Aaron Hall, (Aaron Jr. b. Oct. 16, 1996) a
member in the 80s and 90s trio, Guy.
Velez knew what she wanted to be since she was a young girl,
and, during her teenage years, she attended the John
Casablancas modeling school, which led her to being signed
by the Elite Modeling Agency.
Casablancas' school had a contract of exclusivity with Elite
Models at the time, and Velez joined other models, such as
Cindy Crawford, as a member of Elite although she was not
found in their database.
Velez started out in a series of videos entitled Luke's
Freakshow. These videos contained sexually explicit scenes
which include her stripping and performing lesbian acts with
various other women. She currently claims these videos are
being used as blackmail by former 2 Live Crew member Luther
"Luke" Campbell, the film's producer, although he claims she
used this to jump into the video industry.
She immediately began to work in the entertainment world,
going on tour with *NSYNC and Sisqó. A newcomer with a
feminist attitude (she once declared that men in the music
industry were afraid of women "with brains", for example),
Velez was still a schoolgirl, and she had to fly over to
*NSYNC and Sisqó concert locations during weekends and free
days when she wasn't on vacation.
Velez was influenced by Sisqó, *NSYNC and other singers, and
soon, she began to pursue a career as a rap artist. She
founded her own studio, and, soon enough, she was discovered
by music executive Tyrone Fyffe, who signed her to his music
company.
Most recently, Velez appeared on The Game's Wouldn't Get Far
video as well as a short cameo in DJ Khaled's We Takin Over
video
Soon after, Velez switched to Rodney Jerkins' Cash
Money/Darkchild Imprint label, but, because of her earlier
contract with Fyffe, a court case followed in which Fyffe
tried to claim her back to his own label. Velez decided to
end the problem by getting a release from both of her
contracts, and she independently released her first CD,
"Glory". "Glory" was preceded by Velez's first promotional
tour.
Not to lose touch with her beginnings in the entertainment
world, she began posing with bikinis for magazines, and she
has been featured in a number of publications. She was one
of around 60 Hispanic models to be portrayed in a special
issue of Blackmen, which was released in February 2005.
In that issue, she addressed a question that many non-Puerto
Ricans ponder about Puerto Ricans born outside Puerto Rico,
when she declared that "(she) was born in Long Island, (her
parents) were born in New York, but (her) grandparents were
born in Puerto Rico, so (she is) 100 percent Puerto Rican".
Velez's plans include releasing a DVD named "Doin Tha Damn
Thing," working as a spokemodel for designer April Maiya's
national clothing line "BellaHoney," and keeping her
magazine modeling career going. |
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Other
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Model and rapper
Has one son from a previous relationship with Aaron Hall
Of Puerto Rican descent |
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since December 4, 2007