# Daniela Droz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniela_Droz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniela_Droz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Droz > Source revision: 1309548255 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Puerto Rican actress and singer (born 1977)}} {{more footnotes|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox musical artist | image = | name = Daniela Droz | birth_name = Yesenia Droz Serrano | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|8|16}} | death_date = | origin = [Carolina, Puerto Rico](/source/Carolina%2C_Puerto_Rico) | genre = [Merengue](/source/Merengue_music) | occupation = {{flatlist| * Singer * actress * television host }} | years_active = 1987–present | label = [EMI Latin](/source/EMI_Latin) | website = }} '''Daniela Droz''' (born August 16, 1977) is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and television host. ==Early years== Daniela [Yesenia Droz Serrano] started her acting career during childhood. Her stage debut took place in 1987, at age 10, in the San Juan production of the [musical play](/source/musical_play) ''[Annie](/source/Annie_(musical))'' at [Santurce](/source/Santurce%2C_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico) Performing Arts Center. The Spanish-language production was produced by Benito Mateo, and also featured Nilka Desiree as "Annie", Kate Garrity as "Miss Hannigan", Luis Antonio Cosme as "Oliver Warbucks", and [Claribel Medina](/source/Claribel_Medina) as "Grace", among other noted performers. In 1988, she won the first prize award in 'Miss Maja Infantil' of Puerto Rico. Shortly after, she performed for several seasons, in a television comedy [serial](/source/Serial_(radio_and_television)) called: ''Maripili'', opposite Puerto Rican leading lady Alfonsina Molinari, broadcast by WLUZ-TV, as well as various supporting roles in several [sitcom](/source/sitcom)s, such as ''Cuqui'', and ''Carmelo y Punto'', (''Carmelo and Period''), broadcast by [WAPA-TV](/source/WAPA-TV). Daniela Droz lived in Laguna Gardens in her early years, while studying at Carvin High School in Carolina, Puerto Rico. ==Singing career== As the years came about, Daniela Droz became a young woman and her interests inclined to the music business, even though she had an alternate career as a fashion model. She became part of a [merengue](/source/Merengue_music) vocal group, studied communications at college, and after several attempts to fulfill her dreams of becoming a singer, in 1999, at age 22, she was signed by the [EMI Latin](/source/EMI_Latin) recording label, and recorded her first album called: ''Cosas de Mujeres'' (Women talk), in the [merengue](/source/Merengue_music) [genre](/source/genre). By then, Daniela was also known by the cognomen: ''La Dama de Hierro'', (The Iron Lady). This surname is also the title of her first [video clip](/source/Music_video), & her first hit single, composed by [Marco Antonio Solís](/source/Marco_Antonio_Sol%C3%ADs). The second hit single was ''Debo contar hasta diez'',(I must count to ten), and her opposite leading man in the video clip was [Cuban](/source/Cubans)–[Mexican](/source/Mexican_people) actor [Francisco Gattorno](/source/Francisco_Gattorno). Droz toured in [Dominican Republic](/source/Dominican_Republic), and was the guest star of the television variety show ''Sábados de Corporán'', in which she sang a duet with [Dominican](/source/Dominican_Republic) [merengue](/source/Merengue_music) singer, Kinito Mendez. After touring for a while throughout the Caribbean, she returns to Puerto Rico, and performed as the guest star of Mexican singer [Alejandro Fernández](/source/Alejandro_Fern%C3%A1ndez)'s concerts at the Santurce Performing Arts Center. In 2000, Daniela was acknowledged as 'The best young artist of the year' at the [Paoli Awards](/source/Paoli_Awards), in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In the same year she participated along with Robert Avellanet in the play "The Sleeping beauty". Later on she participated in the especial show for "Vamos a encascarnos" with the Puerto Rican comedian Johnny Ray.{{Cite web|url=https://prpop.org/biografias/daniela-droz/|title=Daniela Droz – Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular | San Juan, Puerto Rico}} In 2008, Droz was recorded a song duet the Puerto Rican singer Osvaldo "Junny" Ramos, named "En una Cuerda Floja", in bachata, that song is planned to be in the next album of Daniela like a featuring. ==Acting career== As the year 2000 came about, she performed the leading role, on the stage production: ''La Bella Durmiente'' (''[Sleeping Beauty](/source/Sleeping_Beauty)''), alongside [Gladys Rodríguez](/source/Gladys_Rodr%C3%ADguez), and [Lou Briel](/source/Lou_Briel), among others, and opposite leading man, [Robert Avellanet](/source/Robert_Avellanet), again at Santurce Performing Arts Center. In 2001, she played "Sandy" in ''[Grease](/source/Grease_(musical))'', the [musical](/source/Musical_theatre), performed in English at the Arena Pier 10 show spot, opposite leading man [Charlie Masso](/source/Charlie_Masso). In 2004, she portrayed 'Elena', the leading lady of the Puerto Rican musical play: ''El Bombón de Elena'', (''Helen's Sweet''), at Santurce Performing Arts Center, alongside [Choco Orta](/source/Choco_Orta) and [Andy Montañez](/source/Andy_Monta%C3%B1ez), among others. In 2006, she played opposite leading lady [Karla Monroig](/source/Karla_Monroig) in the [Telemundo](/source/Telemundo) soap opera: ''[Dueña y Señora](/source/Due%C3%B1a_y_Se%C3%B1ora)''. Her performance was acknowledged by the critics, as the villain of the [telenovela](/source/telenovela). At the end of this year, she played "Sheila" in the well-received Puerto Rican production of the musical play ''[A Chorus Line](/source/A_Chorus_Line)'', staged at Caguas Performing Arts Center, alongside [Marian Pabón](/source/Marian_Pab%C3%B3n) & [Braulio Castillo, hijo](/source/Braulio_Castillo%2C_hijo). ==Career as host== Daniela Droz has been the host of various television specials, and daily shows as ''Anda Pa'l Cará'', and ''[Objetivo Fama](/source/Objetivo_Fama)'' for several seasons. In 2007, she joined [Antonio Sánchez "El Gangster"](/source/Antonio_S%C3%A1nchez_(Puerto_Rican_host)) and "Funky Joe" as co-host of the daily radio show ''[El Bayú de la Mañana](/source/El_Bay%C3%BA_de_la_Ma%C3%B1ana)'' on [SalSoul](/source/SalSoul). In January 2008, she joined them again on their new radio show, ''[El Circo de La Mega](/source/El_Circo_de_La_Mega)''. She also started co-hosting Sánchez television program ''[No te Duermas](/source/No_te_Duermas)''. ==See also== *[List of Puerto Ricans](/source/List_of_Puerto_Ricans) *[Dueña y Señora](/source/Due%C3%B1a_y_Se%C3%B1ora) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{cite web | title=Teatro del 60 celebra en grande con "El bombón de Elena" | website=archive.is | date=21 December 2012 | url=https://www.prpop.org/noticias/ago04/bombonelena_ago014.shtml | language=es | access-date=3 November 2019 | archive-date=21 December 2012 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121221005334/https://www.prpop.org/noticias/ago04/bombonelena_ago014.shtml | url-status=dead }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Droz, Daniela}} Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:People from Carolina, Puerto Rico Category:21st-century Puerto Rican actresses Category:21st-century Puerto Rican women singers Category:21st-century Puerto Rican singers Category:Puerto Rican soap opera actresses Category:Puerto Rican stage actresses Category:Puerto Rican telenovela actresses Category:Puerto Rican television actresses Category:Women in Latin music --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniela Droz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Droz) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Droz?action=history)). 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