Juan Moreno Velazquez

Juan A. Moreno-Velázquez is an award-winning journalist specializing in Entertainment and the Latino community. His incisive reporting got him The National Association of Hispanic Publications, First Prize Award, for Outstanding Reporting on the Hispanic Community, during the year 2001 for the series The Legend of La Lupe, which served as inspiration for the play La Lupe: My Life, My Destiny. In 2002, Moreno-Velázquez turned the trick again, winning the top award in Entertainment for his story, Los Pleneros de la 21. In 2003, Juan received another First Place Award, this time in the Business category, with his story on Arbitron. Moreno-Velázquez was also awarded the prestigious Hispanic Media Top 100 for the year 2002. A graduate of the College of the University of New York, and Fordham University Graduate School of Public Communications, he has done considerable research on the Latin music industry and is considered a musicologist of renown, specializing in Tropical Music and Jazz. He is a former Professor at the University of the Sacred Hearth in Puerto Rico, where he taught Marketing and Communications courses for seven years. An authority in the field, Moreno-Velázquez has participated on television, doing Grammy commentary for FOX, as well as NY 1, and in innumerable radio shows, where he has discussed different issues in the music business and their effect on Latinos. He has written three major biographies, Demystitying a Diva, the truth about La Lupe, which has been optioned for a major movie. La Reina es la Rumba, por siempre Celia, and MAELO...Hijo de Boriken, Rey de los Soneros. He teaches at Boricua Collegue, and has a regular weekly page, PUERTO RICO al DIA at LA VOZ HISPANA de Nueva York, the oldest Latino weekly newspaper in New York City.