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Rising Stars to be Discovered by Telefutura and Univision’s Objetivo Fama 2 Auditions in Hollywood
Hollywood, CA -- Objetivo Fama 2 Auditions, an opportunity of FAME for young adults between 18 and 28-years-old, has arrived to Hollywood. Auditions will take place on Saturday, October 16 from 8:00 a.m.-3:00pm in the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, 1755 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028.
Six more auditions are scheduled throughout the United States between November 6 and November 20, 2004. The auditions will take place in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Miami, and Houston. The winner will sign a contract with Univision Music, receive $25,000 in cash, and be on the road of the rich and famous.
One of the largest talent search for Hispanic talent in the U.S., the auditions will take place in seven of the biggest cities in the United States: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Miami, and Houston. The winner will sign a contract with Univision Music, receive $25,000 in cash, and be on the road of the rich and famous.
The top 18 finalists will receive intense professional training for 14 weeks in Puerto Rico at the Guaynabo School of Performing Arts. Experts will train the finalists in singing technique, dance, theatre, image and fashion. Their stay, training, and interaction will be recorded and broadcast through television. The goal is to discover diamonds in the rough and turn them into shining stars.
Those interested in auditioning must be between 18 and 28-years-old, know how to dance and sing in Spanish, and be a resident of the United States or Puerto Rico.
“Objetivo Fama 1” was a grand success in Puerto Rico: more than three million calls were received; 35,000 records were sold; two coliseums were filled to capacity with thousands of fans. Janina Irazterri, 20-years-old, was the grand winner.
For more information on the talent search, complete rules of the contest, and application please go online to www.univision.com, password: los angeles.
Univision Communications Inc. is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 98% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 80% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 24 Univision Network television stations and 1 non-Univision television station; TeleFutura Television Group, which owns and operates 31 TeleFutura Network television stations; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 68 radio stations in 17 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 4 stations in Puerto Rico; Univision Music Group, which includes Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, and a 50% interest in Mexico-based Disa Records labels as well as Fonomusic and America Musical Publishing companies; and Univision Online, the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S. located at www.univision.com. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa’s pay television channels in the U.S., and a non-voting 27% interest in Entravision Communications Corporation, a public Spanish-language media company. Univision Communications is headquartered in Los Angeles with television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.
For more information, please visit www.univision.net
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Ruthie Flores
KMEX Univision 34/ Los Angeles
310-348-3569
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