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Élan Luz Rivera, a Puerto Rican African American New Yorker has been a professional singer, actress, and dancer since nine years old. For Élan, singing in front of an audience started before she was out of diapers. With raddle in hand, she performed Patti Labelle’s song ‘Shoot ‘em on Sight’ for friends in family. As a little girl with dreams of being an artist she would act out, sing and dance to Epic Records release of Michael Jackson’s thriller video.Now an Epic Sony recording artist, she has spent more than half her life in the entertainment field. She became a member of the top unions SAG, AFTRA, and AEA all before the age of 13. Élan made her Broadway debut in Paul Simon’s The Capeman, playing the role of Cookie, a flirty teen Doo Woper. As she worked alongside with Latin artists like Marc Anthony, Ruben Blades, Ednita Nazario and many other acclaimed actors and musicians in The Capeman; Élan became influenced and baptized into the Latin music world by her fellow co-workers. After the closing of The Capeman, she was asked by former cast member and Platinum Salsa artist Frankie Negron to tour with him which later led to becoming the background singer for DLG on Sony Latino. Afterwards, she moved onto recording forseveral albums from Ricky Martin's Sound Loaded to more recently High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale on "He Said She said."While expanding her career horizons, she went from New York’s LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts then into home schooling when on tour. As an academic honors student she expanded her studies to the dance of Ivory Coast, Africa and India’s Bharata Natyam, and Odissi. She also vocally trained in Classical German, Italian, and East Indian pop; and instrumentation of Egypts dumbek drum and Indo-English harmonium. With her hands-on-studies throughout the world, and her background at the acclaimed “Fame†school she began writing her own music as class assignments. She later became an ASCAP member when her song Dame Un Momento, a trilingual Hindi, Spanish and English pop song was placed on Digital Cables Music Choice Urbano Latino Channel. As Élan continued to experiment with her own Latin vocal style she recorded a remake of Willie Colon’s Sin Poderte Hablar With the help of producer Miguel Bonilla. Sony Latino placed her demo as a duet on the second solo album by former lead singer of DLG's Huey Dunbar. The song was chosen as the single and she accompanied Huey Dunbar on the first leg of his albums promotional performances, radio and televised events such as Sabado Gigante and Despierta America.After a semester in college and a summer tour entertaining the troops in Korea and Japan, Elan came back to the states and met up with the visionary who had a concept of what the DEY was to become and finally met Yeyo. Over a weekend of recording they all knew it would be a hit and so they prepared to get their deal within 2 months. The first try was a charm and Sony welcomed them right then and there after their showcase.Currently you can hear Elan with The DEY on collaborations with Paula Deanda's Top 40 hit "Walk Away", Sean Kingstons "There's nothin" and their Single "Give you the world" produced by J.R. Rotem. During the recording of "Give you the world", she, JR Rotem and Evan Boggart wrote The Cheetah Girls first Bi-lingual Single "Fuego."
