I love Rico very very very very very much, I live for him.
HE actually wrote that and it is true for the most part, but there is MORE!I am a native of Mobile, Alabama, where I graduated from Murphy High School in 1988. I received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
An accomplished dancer, I studied tap, jazz, ballet, modern, and acrobatics, and hip-hop dance since the age of nine, primarily at Sheffield School of Dance, Broadway Dance Theater in New York and Millennium Dance Center in Los Angeles. I ahve danced professionally teaching dance camps at Universities across the nation for the Universal Dance Association, and as a chorus girl in the Dick Tracy Show at Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. I served as a dance instructor at Sheffield School of Dance in Mobile, Jackie O’Neal School of Dance and Exclusively Ballet in Birmingham, Alabama, and
at In Motion Dance Center, Sixth Street Dance Studio, and The DancExchange in Miami, Florida.
I performed in the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, and the 2004 Latin Video Music Awards, in the 2005 Latin Billboard Awards, and served as a dancer and choreographer on the Latin Univision and Telemundo Television Networks in Miami.
I have worked extensively as a print and television model appearing on the pages of Glamour, Ebony, Essence, Jet, and the cover of the Birmingham Magazine, and was featured in the March 2005 issue of O Magazine in a full page Petsmart ad. I was the face of the UPN network in Birmingham, Alabama, and served as a television journalist on The Fox Sports Network’s show Behind the Game. I was also the featured dancer in the Old Navy “Bermuda Shorts†commercial in 2005.
In 1993, I became the first, and so far only, African-American woman to be crowned Miss Alabama and went on to represent the state in the 1994 Miss America Pageant where I placed as a top ten semi-finalist with dance as my talent. My year of service was dedicated to speaking to students about the importance of education with an emphasis on staying school.
In Miami, I continued to reach out to children at risk as a dance instructor for the non-profit organization Arts for Learning, where I taught dance in inner city schools in Liberty City and Little Haiti.
I reside in Miami, Florida with my model/television producer husband, Rico, and our two daughters Phoenix and Zen. I am a member of Unity on The Bay Church.
