Marisol Calero Informations

Marisol Calero (born 13 September 1963) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer.

Calero was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on 13 September 1963. Since she was a child, Calero participated in school performances at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro. As a child she participated briefly in the San Juan Children's Choir. As a teenager she attended the Escuela Libre de Música (Free School of Music) in San Juan. There she continued to participate in the dramatic arts. She studied singing from the age 14 under the sopranos Rina de Toledo, Vilna Echenique and Darysabel Isales.

She started her professional career with a fino performance in a poetic musical, accompanied by her mother – also an actress as well as a politician Marta Font. She was a singer in various civic, college, and professional groups. In time she rose to the theatrical horizon in Puerto Rico.

In addition to her theatrical career in Puerto Rico, Calero also became a professional singer. Her first hit was Conmigo no (Not with me) in 1986. This was followed by Duende, Ojalá, Te voy a dejar, Duendes de la noche, and Frágil. A parody of Duendes de la noche became comedic character Vitín Alicea's signature song, Hombres en la noche.

As a singer, Calero represented Puerto Rico at the OTI Festival, celebrated in Portugal in 1987. She also performed as an actress in Panama in the El diluvio que viene.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Calero moved to Miami, Florida, where she worked in the world of Telenovelas as well as the theatrical scene. In 1994 she was named Star Actress of the Year at the 19th festival of the Arts Critics Awards for her role in Tal para cual where she performed with Evelio Taillac.

Later she participated in La duda, directed and produced by Carmen Montejo; Rosita la soltera, a play by Federico García Lorca and Hazme de la noche un cuento by Jorge Márquez, directed by Ramón Pareja for the Latin Theatrical Festival in Miami. Calero was concurrently participating in various TV projects such as Aguamarina, starring Ruddy Rodríguez and Leonardo García; Hey Miami, and the telenovela Me muero por ti, also filmed in 2000.

In 1998 Calero starred in Tal para cual at the San Juan Centro de Bellas Artes. She had a role in the movie Under Suspicion, which was filmed entirely in Puerto Rico. In March, 2001 Calero was part of Huracán criollo of the dramatist Juan González-Bonilla.

In 2002 Calero was contracted by the Brazilian company Rede Globo for a role in Vale tudo, doing the role of Mercedes, a Mexican mother bringing up her adolescent daughter. A year later she starred at the Abanico Theater in Coral Gables in El último de los amantes, the Spanish version of Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers. She starred in the role of four different characters. Prior to her acting in El último de los amantes, she was recognized by the Office of the Government of Puerto Rico in Miami together with Sully Díaz, Mara Croatto, Yolandita Monge and Adamari López.

She currently resides in Miami, Florida, USA.

She has performed as an actress in:

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