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About Me

Born in Queens New York to Puerto Rican parents I've loved singing since I was big enough to open up a hymnal in our little Spanish church. My father sang and played the organ in church and I suppose that's where I get my love of singing from. When I was 3 years old we moved to a small town in Southern New Jersey where I began singing in school choral programs and doing plays in elementary school. I even took a short stab at learning to play the organ and played a bigger than me pipe organ in a talent contest.
The first musical I performed in was my freshman year of high school. Godspell. I knew then that if I could sing AND be on stage that's where I wanted to be. We moved to Florida the next year where I began working in Community Theater because the high school musical had no part I was really interested in. As I grew older and started raising my own family and moving around through Upstate New York and later to Phoenix I never gave up on my my pursuit of musical theater. I still perform everyonce in a while when I can fit it into my hectic schedule. Its definitely my passion.
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Member Since: 20/04/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/soniaboricua
Band Members: SOMEONE ELSE'S STORY From Chess

Me singing I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM from Jesus Christ Superstar (Audio only)

Me singing I'M NOT THAT GIRL from Wicked (Audio only)

Influences: Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Idina Menzel, Kristen Chenoweth
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My Blog

I'm beat

Tech week.Really. Need I say more?First dress rehearsal tonight in full dress, wigs, makeup and fairy dust. Whew!I really need to get back in shape. Fluttering around, as crabby as my character, Fairy...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:12:00 GMT

What have I been doing?

Ok, so I have accomplished ONE goal I set last fall. I'm grateful for that and enjoying every second of it.A dance class.I started taking a musical theater dance class in November and love, love, love...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:10:00 GMT

The Elusive Next Performance Project

So Camelot is quickly coming to a close and while its been a great learning experience, I'm now ready for something a little more challenging. From a performance standpoint I mean. This econ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Wanna dance

So when I went for my Camelot fitting last week I found out we'll be wearing tan character shoes. I was like WEEE an excuse to buy new dance shoes. So today on my lunch hour I hauled my cookies up to ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:52:00 GMT

Yay for costumes!

Weeeeee, I go to get fitted for my costumes today! So uber excited! These are costumes I've really been looking forward to. Hello!! Medieval Lady of the Court! Pretty dresses! No over the top hair,&nb...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:00 GMT

A good time was had by all...I hope

So the AriZoni awards were held last night in downtown Phoenix at the Herberger Theater. I didn't win but had a great time nonetheless. One of my best friends won. I don't who hollered and ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:49:00 GMT

4 goals...so far

1 lose 10 pounds by October 16th 2 Record a demo by November 30th 3 Sing a minimum of 3 songs from my repertoire everyday and/or spend a minimum of 30 minutes singing 4 Add at least 1 new so...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:25:00 GMT

In search of goals

So after reading a pretty inspiring blog today I decided its time to set down some new goals. Not really sure what exactly yet but its been entirely too long since I've mapped stuff out and figured o...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:21:00 GMT

Audition update

I've been cast in Camelot at Hale Centre Theatre Arizona! I couldn't be more excited! I'm a Lady of the Court and am having sucha fun time learning the songs for the ensemble numbers. I get to hit the...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:54:00 GMT

Time to put myself out there

So from one audition to the next. Here I go again. It's been a while. I was going through some old email from almost a year ago and saw a note to a friend in response to the question, "How was your da...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:35:00 GMT