Luisa Fernanda
Encyclopedia
For the zarzuela by Federico Moreno Torroba, see Luisa Fernanda (zarzuela)
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Luisa Fernanda Lozano (born c. 1970) is a Mexican
television
entertainment news anchor. She worked for Telemundo
until the end of 2007. She currently co-animates a talk show for Univision Radio
, and hosts exclusive interviews for Terra.com.
" the music group, where she sang together with Patty Manterola, Pilar Montenegro
, Katia Llanos, Sergio Mayer
, Javier Ortiz
, Victor Noriega
and Charly Lopez.
Her looks garnered the attention of some model agencies, and soon, she was named one of the top fifty most beautiful women of México. In 1994, she left "Garibaldi".
From 1990 to 1998, she worked in many telenovela
s for Televisa
, including the international super hits "Alcanzar una estrella
" and "Agujetas de Color de Rosa","El premio mayor", soap operas which were mainly geared towards Latin American teenagers.
In 2000, she went to the United States
to work at the Home Shopping Network
's Spanish
channel.
Less than a year in the US, she was hired by Telemundo/NBC to host the network morning show "De mañanita". Soon after she was cast to co-host the network entertainment news show "Cotorreando", alongside Esteban Arce
and Mauricio Zeilic
.
Apart from covering daily show business news, she has also covered live spacial events from Los Angeles, California
, Mexico
, New York, New York, Texas
and Puerto Rico
, among many other places.
In June 2007, she was fired by Telemundo/NBC after a segment in which she used the word cherna to refer to a type of fish (grouper
), and this was misinterpreted as an anti-gay
epithet based on colloquial Cuban
usage. Her firing was condemned by Monica Taher of GLADD and its Latin American counterpart LGBT
who issued a joint statement in support of Luisa Fernanda, stating, "We are dismayed with the decision of Telemundo/NBC to fire Luisa Fernanda. Her comment was not in any way offensive towards us. She has attended numerous events sponsored by the LGBT
and is one of the many artists who have supported us."
After her dismissal from the NBC Universal
owned network, she made another appearance publicly, but in radio. At the end of September she signed a contract with Telemundo/NBC's longtime rival Univision Network Group to co-animate a radio-talk show alongside Omar Moynelo for Univision Radio
called "El Arañazo" and another one alongside Carlos Calderon called "El Colmillo" and was recently signed by the leading Spanish internet portal in US and Latin America "Terra.com" as the network special celebrity correspondent.
Was married to Mexican actor Sergio Mayer.
Luisa Fernanda (zarzuela)
Luisa Fernanda is a romantic zarzuela in three acts by Federico Moreno Torroba. The libretto is written in Spanish by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández Shaw. The first performance of Luisa Fernanda took place at Teatro Calderón in Madrid on March 26, 1932...
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Luisa Fernanda Lozano (born c. 1970) is a Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
entertainment news anchor. She worked for Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
until the end of 2007. She currently co-animates a talk show for Univision Radio
Univision Radio
Univision Radio is the radio division of media giant Univision Communications, Inc., which also ownsthe Univision television network. The company was formerly known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. It is the eighth largest radio company in the United States, and the largest Hispanic radio...
, and hosts exclusive interviews for Terra.com.
Biography
Luisa Fernanda has been working on television since 1987, when she began her career as a host in Mexico, as well as a member of "GaribaldiGaribaldi (group)
Garibaldi was a Mexican pop group, who wore a free version of the traditional charro costume while singing modern version of traditional songs. Their dress and style of music caused controversy in their time. The name Garibaldi comes from Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City where mariachi bands can be...
" the music group, where she sang together with Patty Manterola, Pilar Montenegro
Pilar Montenegro
Pilar Montenegro is a Mexican Latin pop singer and actress.-Biography:When Montenegro was 10 years old she landed her first acting part in the TV series Juguemos A Cantar, her career moved along with her becoming a member of Fresas Con Crema for a short time...
, Katia Llanos, Sergio Mayer
Sergio Mayer
Sergio Mayer Breton Izturiz Pinilla, is a Mexican actor, singer and producer.-Biography:Sergio started his career in 1982 in a group called Chévere Internacional, which he belonged to for 4 years. With the group, he toured all over Latin America and the United States...
, Javier Ortiz
Xavier Ortiz
Xavier Ortiz Ramirez is a Mexican actor, singer, model, producer, TV host, Dentist/surgeon and entrepreneur, owner of bar-restaurant la santa bar in Guadalajara, Mexico. former member of the musical group Garibaldi ...
, Victor Noriega
Víctor Noriega
Víctor Noriega , born 10 May 1972 is a Mexican actor, singer and model.-Biography:Born in Mexico City, he started his career as a model. He then pursued a BA in Communications...
and Charly Lopez.
Her looks garnered the attention of some model agencies, and soon, she was named one of the top fifty most beautiful women of México. In 1994, she left "Garibaldi".
From 1990 to 1998, she worked in many telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s for Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
, including the international super hits "Alcanzar una estrella
Alcanzar una estrella
Alcanzar una estrella is a Mexican telenovela first broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1990.The telenovela, which was also broadcast in Latin America and on Univision in the United States, tells the story of an introverted girl's infatuation with her teen idol...
" and "Agujetas de Color de Rosa","El premio mayor", soap operas which were mainly geared towards Latin American teenagers.
In 2000, she went to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
to work at the Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network or HSN began in 1977 as a 24-hour/7 day a week home shopping television network televised via cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the Philippines. HSN can also be shopped online at hsn.com...
's Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
channel.
Less than a year in the US, she was hired by Telemundo/NBC to host the network morning show "De mañanita". Soon after she was cast to co-host the network entertainment news show "Cotorreando", alongside Esteban Arce
Esteban Arce
Esteban Arce is a Mexican television entertainer.-Early life:He was born in Mexico City and lived with 2 brothers and 2 sisters named José Luís, Eduardo, Alejandra, and Adriana in a little house in delegación Benito Juarez. He loved soccer and to his day he is a big fan of Atlante F.C...
and Mauricio Zeilic
Mauricio Zeilic
Mauricio Zeilic is a Cuban American show business reporter.A papparatzi for more than a decade, Zeilic was one of the five show hosts of Cotorreando, a show dedicated to talking about the lives of movie and music stars....
.
Apart from covering daily show business news, she has also covered live spacial events from Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, New York, New York, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, among many other places.
In June 2007, she was fired by Telemundo/NBC after a segment in which she used the word cherna to refer to a type of fish (grouper
Grouper
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.Not all serranids are called groupers; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name grouper is usually given to fish in one of two large genera: Epinephelus...
), and this was misinterpreted as an anti-gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
epithet based on colloquial Cuban
Cuban Spanish
Cuban Spanish is the dialect of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba. As a Caribbean dialect, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda deletion, seseo, and debuccalization.-Overview:...
usage. Her firing was condemned by Monica Taher of GLADD and its Latin American counterpart LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
who issued a joint statement in support of Luisa Fernanda, stating, "We are dismayed with the decision of Telemundo/NBC to fire Luisa Fernanda. Her comment was not in any way offensive towards us. She has attended numerous events sponsored by the LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
and is one of the many artists who have supported us."
After her dismissal from the NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
owned network, she made another appearance publicly, but in radio. At the end of September she signed a contract with Telemundo/NBC's longtime rival Univision Network Group to co-animate a radio-talk show alongside Omar Moynelo for Univision Radio
Univision Radio
Univision Radio is the radio division of media giant Univision Communications, Inc., which also ownsthe Univision television network. The company was formerly known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. It is the eighth largest radio company in the United States, and the largest Hispanic radio...
called "El Arañazo" and another one alongside Carlos Calderon called "El Colmillo" and was recently signed by the leading Spanish internet portal in US and Latin America "Terra.com" as the network special celebrity correspondent.
Was married to Mexican actor Sergio Mayer.