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Myrka De Llanos
For over a decade, Myrka Dellanos has been a U.S. born,
bilingual and unparalleled broadcast journalist in the
Spanish television market. At least twenty million viewers
throughout the United States, Latin-America and worldwide
have come to embrace and welcome this two-time Emmy award
winning journalist into their homes and families. In the
last year, she was selected as Time Inc.’sStar of the
Year for People En Espanol magazine in their premiere
double issue for December 2004, January 2005.
Today, Myrka hosts her own prime time show on Univision
Television Network called,Exclusively with Myrka
Dellanos or En Exclusiva con Myrka Dellanos
where she is able to do what she is most passionate about,
interview others. With her journalistic background and
unique access to the stars and newsmakers of the day, her
program is an up-close and personal encounter with the
people who are most loved by her viewers. Myrka also hosts
special programming for Univision, like the nominations for
the Spanish music awards, Premio Lo Nuestro and the Latin
Grammy’s which she hosted live from Miami and Los Angeles;
she was also the first host of Premios Juventud, an MTV
type show where the hottest young latin stars perform and
receive awards in music, fashion, acting and sports; and
she has hosted for more than five years the highly rated
Noche de Estrellas, a yearly event where latin stars walk
down the famed red carpet to attend the latin music show,
Premio Lo Nuestro.
To this list of accomplishments, Myrka can now add
published author. Her book Triunfa y se Feliz; Cosas que
aprendi gracias a Dios, a mi madre y a la vida, or Succeed
and Be Happy; Things I’Ve Learned Thank God, My Mom And
Life is published by Random House 2005. She will be
traveling to many cities in the U.S. in the following
months on a book tour and her work will later be released
throughout Latin-America. She was asked by the Library of
Congress to be a part of the the National Book Festival
hosted by First Lady Laura Bush in September of 2005.
In 1993 Myrka began hosting Univision Network’s Primer
Impacto airing live every weekday. This show was
consistently rated in the top-ten in the U.S. and
throughout Latin America while Myrka hosted for one decade.
She was also the host of Univision’s Ver Para Creer, a show
that highlights amazing and outrageous feats performed
throughout the world, and of Imagenes de Impacto where the
audience is shown the world’s most amazing videos.
Myrka has solidified her career not only covering many
important worldwide news events, but also by interviewing
some of the most notable celebrities including among many,
renowned opera singer Placido Domingo; boxing champion
Oscar de la Hoya; Jennifer Lopez; Ricky Martin; Marc
Anthony; Paulina Rubio and Thalia.
She has received numerous awards besides her two Emmy's;
three ACE awards, including a special award for herf live
coverage o Lady Diana's death and funeral services. Myrka
was namedOutstanding Young Woman of America and is
part of the Who's Who among Hispanics in the United
States . At the beginning of her career, the United Way of
Florida chose Myrka as one of their Outstanding Women in
Broadcasting. In the year 2000, she was awarded the
Hispanic Leadership Award by the Hispanic Heritage
Council for being a positive role model in the Hispanic
community and in 2001, she was named Hispanic of the
Year by the Direct Marketing Association of America. In
2002, Myrka won the prestigious Athena Award in
Florida . Additionally in 2003, she was named Person
of the Year by the Organization of Ibero-American
Journalists (OPI) which selects their awardees among among
all journalists in the U.S. and Latin-America.
In her spare time, Myrka visits schools to discuss
journalism and the importance of keeping the Spanish
language alive. In 2001, Myrka was honored to be chosen as
the Commencement Exercises speaker at her Alma Mater, the
University of Miami . In 2004, Myrka was chosen to be the
host of the Hispanic Heritage month kick-off at the White
House with President George W. Bush and the First Lady. And
later that year, Myrka visited Kuwait and Iraq as part of
the USO Tour with Wayne Newton. She is the only
Hispanic celebrity to have visited this part of the world,
during the war on terror.
In addition to her journalistic accomplishments, Myrka has
the ability to touch the hearts of Hispanics throughout the
world at a grassroots level. Her involvement in charitable
initiatives include providing hands-on relief to disaster
victims and serving as the international Spokesperson
for Save the Children, a non-profit organization
that helps disadvantaged children around the globe. Myrka
has also worked with the American Diabetes
Foundation and was on the celebrity board of directors
of Marcelino Pan y Vino, a non-profit Washington
D.C. organization that helps sick children. Myrka sponsors
numerous children around the world through the Christian
Organization "Worldvision" and also through "Compassion
International". Most recently, Myrka was chosen to be on
the Board of "Partners of the Americas", a worldwide
charitable organization that promotes volunteer
services.She will be traveling to Colombia later this year
to work with them on a personal level. Also, the
International Rescue Committee (IRC) which works with
the United Nations helping refugees, have approached Myrka
to be their Goodwill Ambassador. Myrka is very proud to
have been appointed by President George W. Bush to be a
member of the prestigious Freedom Corps, a group of
25 of the most influential people in their fields in the
U.S. who work together to promote charitable giving amongst
Americans.
Myrka is one of the most recognizable personality's on
Spanish television and has been the spokesperson for
Colgate toothpaste for the last four years; she
participated in the "Got Milk" ad campaign with her
daughter, and most recently was chosen as the "Celebrity
Spokesperson" for the Old Navy Holiday 2004 Campaign. She
has been featured on the cover of numerous magazines in the
U.S. and throughout Latin-America, including People En
Espanol, Shape, Buenhogar (Good Housekeeping) and Hola
Magazine (Hello Magazine), among others.
For all of her accomplishments, experience, leadership,
poise and elegance, Myrka is most passionate about her
favorite role as mother to her daughter Alexa, born in
December of 1993.
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