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Mayra Verónica
Mayra Verónica meet and greet the troops in northeastern Afghanistan.
Born	Mayra Verónica Aruca Rodríguez August 20, 1980(1980-08-20) (age 29) Havana, Cuba
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Cuban (Spanish)
Occupation	Pop singer, model
Height	5' 2
Parents	Arturo Aruca, Mayra Rodriguez
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Mayra Verónica (born Mayra Verónica Aruca Rodríguez in Havana, Cuba), is a Cuban-American model and actress. She has appeared on Univision's Don Francisco Presenta. She has also appeared in numerous magazines, particularly men's magazines, including the U.S. edition of FHM and on the cover of Open Your Eyes.

Mayra Veronica born Mayra Veronica Aruca, August 20,1980 is a model and singer born in Havana Cuba, but who acquired her fame in the United States. Mayra began her entertainment career as a celebrity reporter and host for a local entertainment show in the City of Miami FL, where she interviewed Donald trump, Dennis Rodman, Hugh Heffner, and all celebrities that visited Miami. With the show and a TV movie under her belt entitled the Suitor, Veronica received a call from the Univision network. a new show was to begin hosted by Don Francisco, the top rated talk show host on the Network...and they wanted her to be their cohost, but there was one catch. Due to her ample curves, her last appearance on screen for the day would entail her backside presence on camera before turning around to face the camera. Veronica did it gladly. Once the show aired, the model with the great backside became the talk of latins everywhere, so much so that even the American press got involved. FHM magazine, the top men's magazine of the time,contactedVeronica's publicist to ask for a feature spread on their magazine. Veronica agreed and after much mail requesting her return she went on to do the cover of the FHM exclusive collection book, which included top sex symbols of the decade, such as Pamela Anderson, Eva Longoria, Carmen Electra etc. and other covers for FHM, Maxim, Edge, Smooth, SSX, Smoke, Open your Eyes and more. Her popularity on such covers made her website at the time one of the top requested websites with over 4 million hits biweekly. With this came many emails from soldiers stationed in Iraq asking for her posters and by now famous calendars. Veronica had her management send in a care package of approximately 5000 posters and it wasn't long before the marines named her favorite pin up girl for the US marines and the USO asked her for a tour with our troops.The tour was a special Thanksgiving tour with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:General Cartwright, actor Wilmer Valderrama,comedian Russell Peters, traveling to six countries in six days, including Iraq, Afghanistan,Germany, Turkey, Africa, and Greenland. The troops' response was overwhelming and although Veronica had decided not to do any more calendars, she quickly changed her mind and decided to do one in 2008 dedicating all proceeds to the USO. Upon her return from the tour she was asked to appear on FOX's Bill Oreilly and was quickly named a modern day Betty Grable. During her time with the Univision Network, Veronica had the opportunity to meet top ranked music producers who collaborated with her on her first music album. It was titled Vengo Con To' (Im coming at you with everything) It was also a popular time for the raggaeton music movement and Veronica's album included as its first single "Vengo con to" Europe did not seem to mind and Mayra signed a deal with a German Label for the release of the album there. The album's popularity landed Veronica a large deal with Universal Motown who put out a second single from the album, titled "Mamma Mia" which also did very well on radio. It wasn't until the third single "Es Tan DificilOlvidarte" dedicated to the fallen troops, ,that Veronica's voice was recognized by Billboard making her top 10 on the Pop Contemporary charts. Veronica continued her work with the troops by visiting the wounded at camp Lejeune, and was then asked by the New York Stock Exchange to ring the NASDAQ bell in Time Square on July 2, 2008 for Fourth of July week. Veronica decided to bring awareness to two of the organizations for which she's an advocate and spokesperson,TheUSO and UNICEF, and brought them to the bell ringing ceremony. Veronica just released her first English single titled “If You Wanna Fly” from her Saint nor Sinner album and appears on the cover of Billboard Magazine on January 23 2010.

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