By Carmenlita Castillo
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Raquel Castro (born November 17, 1994) is an American actress and singer. She is known for starring in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké, the daughter of Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) and Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez), for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actress Age Ten or Younger. She was a contestant in the American version of The Voice.
Castro’s father is Puerto Rican, and her mother is of Italian and Jewish descent.
Castro was a contestant on the first season of the reality television singing competition program The Voice, She was selected in the Blind Audition round and was coached by Christina Aguilera. She progressed to the first round of the Live shows before being eliminated with Lily Elise in favor of Frenchie Davis and Beverly McClellan.
Castro recorded a cover of Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man” and posted it on YouTube. Castro has also listed Christina Aguilera and Selena as her idols and major influences.
Castro released her first single titled “Diary”. According to her YouTube page, the song was written by Alyssa Bonagura and Ted Bruner. It was produced by J Chris Griffin. It was released on iTunes and CDBaby on February 1, 2012.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
What English word has all the vowels in alphabetical order?
Facetiously
Died
- Queen Mary I of England –
- Auguste Rodin (sculptor) –
- Roger Peckinpaugh (baseball player) –
- Immanuel Velikovsky (author) –
- Dick O’Neill (actor) –
- Esther Rolle (actress) –
- Abba Eban (statesman, dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades) –
- Irving Brecher (comedy writer) –
Born
- George Grote (historian) –
- August Wilhelm Ambros (composer) –
- Grace Abbott (American reformer) –
- Lee Strasberg (actor and director; born in Budaniv, Ukraine) –
- Isamu Noguchi (sculptor) –
- Stanley Cohen (biochemist) –
- Rock Hudson (actor) –
- Bob Mathias (decathlon athlete) –
- Gordon Lightfoot (singer) –
- Martin Scorsese (director) –
- Tom Seaver (baseball player) –
- Danny DeVito (actor) –
- Daisy Fuentes (model & television host) –
- Sophie Marceau (actress) –
- Raquel Castro (actress) –
Events
- The U.S. Congress met for the first time in the Capitol, Washington, D.C. –
- Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer sighted Antarctica –
- First U.S. postage stamp of American eagle issued –
- Douglas C. Engelbart patented the computer mouse –
- A turkey was plucked in 1 minute 30 seconds, setting world record –
- Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated as Governor of California –
- The soap opera All My Children taped its 9,000th episode –
- The world’s oldest champagne (salvaged from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea) was uncorked and sampled. Wine experts date the bottles as being from the early 19th century. –
Weather
- Remarkable aurora borealis shows were seen throughout the United States –
- A tornado touched down in Cass County, Indiana –
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