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Gloria Velez (born December 18, 1978) is an
American bikini model, former Hip Hop model, dancer, rap artist and
actress who is a native of Long Island, New York. She is of Puerto Rican
descent.
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Life
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. Gloria has also
been linked romantically to several celebrities.
Employment
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.
Becoming a rapper
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 proceeded 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 on 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.
On 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".
Plans
Velez's plans include releasing a DVD named
"Doin Tha Damn Thing", keeping on working as a model for the national
clothes chain, BellaHoney, and keeping her magazine modeling career on
going.
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