Alba Raquel Barros (born December 14, 1952 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an actress, singer and dancer. She is better known for her acting career, and she has won many national awards for her works, both on the television and theatrical fields.ghgh December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. ... By name List of female movie actors (A-K) (A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K) List of female movie actors (L-Z) (L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z) By country List of Indian actresses By category... There are two lists of singers: List of female singers List of male singers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...

Barros participated in a Spanish language version of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" as a teenager. She graduated with a certificate in drama from the University of Puerto Rico in 1974. This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... Thomas Lanier Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a noted playwright. ... Spoiler warning: A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams describing a culture clash between Blanche DuBois—a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South—and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the university system of Puerto Rico. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

Barros began her rise to fame as a telenovela actress in Puerto Rico's channel 2 during the 1970s. She participated in some of that channel's most famous soap operas. Telenovela is the Spanish and Portuguese word for prime time serial or soap opera. ... Telemundo Puerto Rico is one of Puerto Ricos most popular tv channels. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...

By the early 1980s, she had moved to channel 4, where she acted in some of that channel's most famous shows, including 1982's soap, "Yo Se Que Mentia", and 1984's "Barrio Cuatro Calles". In "Barrio Cuatro Calles", a comedy, she played a Puerto Rican girl who had been born in New York city, therefore, she used an Americanized accent. She played the wife of Miguel Angel Alvarez, who played a bakery owner. They played opposite legendary Cuban actor Leopoldo Fernandez and Yazmin Mejias. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Televicentro is a Puerto Rico-based television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as the call letters WAPA-TV, Channel 4, for NTSC television and WAPA-DT, Channel 27, for digital television. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Yo Se Que Mentia was a 1982 soap opera produced by Puerto Ricos WAPA-TV. It included Argentinas Daniel Guerrero, Puerto Rican dancing legend Iris Chacon, a young Adamari Lopez, Amneris Morales and Miguel Angel Suarez and Angela Meyer as a married couple who tried to make Guerrero... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Miguel Angel Alvarez a. ...

She has participated at the theatrical versions of many of Latin America's most famous novels, including "La Carreta", "Orinoco", "La Clase del 69" and others. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... This page is about the Orinoco River, for the Aphra Behn novel see Oroonoko With a length of 2140 km, the Orinoco is one of the largest rivers of South America. ...

The famous Chilean show host and producer, Don Francisco, has invited Barros many times to his Univision show, "Sábado Gigante". Recognizing the opportunity of being seen across Latin America, Barros has participated a number of times at that television show. Don Francisco Don Francisco (born December 28, 1940 in Talca, Chile) is the artistic name of Mario Kreutzberger, a Chilean television host. ... Univisión is one of the largest Spanish language television channels in the United States. ... Sábado Gigante (Giant Saturday) – also known as Sábados Gigantes (Giant Saturdays) and, at the beginning of its run, as Sábados Alegres (Happy Saturdays) – is one of the longest running, most famous, and most popular shows on television. ...

Barros's acting career has not been limited to television and theater, however, as she has participated in a number of Puerto Rico's most important productions of all times, including "Nicolas y los demas" ("Nicholas and the others"), "Heroes de Otra Patria" ("Heroes for Another Nation", which protested the participation of Puerto Ricans in the United States military, particularly during the Vietnam war era), and "Los Diaz de Doris". The Vietnam War was a war fought roughly from 1957 to 1975 after the North Vietnamese government secretly agreed to begin involvement in South Vietnam. ... Los Diaz de Doris is a Puerto Rican film made in 2002. ...

In 2002, Barros moved to Venezuela to act there, after being signed by Venevision. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Venevisión is Venezuelas largest TV station, owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros. ...

Awards

• Outstanding comedy actress of the year (Puerto Rico, 1985)
• Comedian of the year (Puerto Rico, 1986)
• Best female actress (Puerto Rico, 1986)
• Best soap opera starring role (Puerto Rico, 1987)
• Best actress (Puerto Rico, 1988)

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See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans