Mayra Veronica

BIOGRAPHY

As Featured on Extra's Star Profile on Dec.2/06, One of FHM's "top 100 Sexiest Women In the World" three years straight, Mayra Veronica has graced the covers of magazines from FHM to Maxim as well as Men's Edge, Smooth, King, Smoke, Maxim En Espanol, Open Your Eyes, Cosmo Fl, Urban Male and many others. She has been featured in countless commercials including Nike's own television campaign opposite Lebron James and EA video games has created a new video character after her in their Def Jam 3 video game which is scheduled to be released in March of '07. Mayra has recently been voted by the US Military Troops as their "Favorite Pin UP Girl" after being one of the nation's top-selling calendars in '04,'05,'06.
After her release in the popular magazine FHM on Aug 2003, Mayra became a household name. The feedback on this layout got her on FHM's 2004 calendar and landed her a spot on their A-list top 100 sexiest women in the world issue for 2004, 2005 and again in 2006. This notoriety made her own calendar one of the top selling calendars in US bookstores for the Hispanic market and made her site one of the top 30 celebrity sites hit with over 3.7 million hits bi weekly to date. Her name continues to be one of the top keywords for Web surfers.
Now Mayra's musical passion arrives unbounded with her debut Latin Internationally Distributed Album: "Vengo Con To'" produced by Roy Tavares and Kike Santander.
Making the transition from television as a regular on the national Univision Networks "Don Francisco Presenta" during her three year run, to a recording artist, Mayra has had music in her soul almost from birth. As a very small girl, Mayra Veronica can recall sitting by her father's side as he played "Cenicienta", a Cuban song about Cinderella. Now she's found a glass slipper of her own two decades later with almost fairy-tale success as an in-demand entertainer.
Born Mayra Veronica Aruca Rodriguez on August 20 in Havana Cuba, Mayra's family moved to the US when she was 5 years old and they settled in one of Miami, Florida's Cuban communities. Mayra studied ballet for 12 years in all, taking a break when adolescence took over and she grew "voluptuous" she laughs now. She also won various honors in a number of beauty pageants, including second runner-up as Miss Miami and Miss Hispanic America. When it became clear that a career in dance was not to be, Mayra turned to acting, but not before graduating from Florida International University with a major in psychology and a minor in business, applying those skills later as her entertainment career blossomed.

Traveling back and forth from the Big Apple to home in Florida, Mayra studied at the famed Strassberg Institute for acting, earned roles in stage plays, and was also signed as a spokes model for the giant Univision television network. At home in Florida, she became a host for the Miami television entertainment magazine, “Miami Hoy,” writing, producing and editing her own segments as she interviewed a roster of celebrities, ranging form Donald Trump and Hugh Hefner to Burt Reynolds, Oscar de la Renta ,Tim Allen and Marc Anthony. Mayra also starred in feature film roles, in PBS productions, independent films such as “Tumbe”, and appeared in nationwide Spanish language ads for a wide array of companies including Loreal, Ford, Colgate, Burger King, Coca Cola, and Allstate. She then landed the role on Univision’s “Don Francisco Presenta”, in which viewers embraced her nationwide, making Mayra one of their top female personalities (Mayra is also the #1 most downloaded female personality on the Univision website).
The launching of Mayra's music career continues the stunning rise of this star who has been named "the sexiest woman alive on Latin television" by FHM magazine as she prepares for her world promotional tour and her debut American Album created by top industry producers. What’s her motto? “Fear Nothin' and if you do...stare fear back in the eye and tell it: Just Watch Me! “