by: Lulaine Compere
Dee Vazquez is everywhere these days radio, television, satellite radio, blogs bringing her insightful analysis to the public. It is hard to categorize what she does because she does so much. With all her accomplishments, this Dominican and Puerto Rican Queens, New York born beauty paid her dues to get where she is now.
“After many auditions, my first gig on television was on cable access says Vazquez. That was my foundation and where I learned how to do research and conduct an interview, produce a show, train talent, and learned the importance of being prepared, professional and multi-faceted.”
As she worked her way up the ladder she worked her way to being on hip hop stations Hot 97 and Shade 45 with DJ Kay Slay, hosting a show on the Fuse network, and starting her own website deevazquez.com. Now with the global audience the internet adds it has changed the way she approaches her job.
“I’ve completely changed my attitude and approach toward the internet from the time I started to now” says Vazquez. I remember not really understanding the sense behind creating an online newsletter for a TV show thinking who is going to sit in front of a computer and read this. Back then, the important part for me was to be at all the events and meet everyone I can. Now, I’ve adapted, in a sense. I write a blog on my site, because I find it’s a great way to exercise my writing skills and I’m on Twitter.”
Dee Vazquez aside from her work also does speaking engagements and her team helps her do those things so she doesn’t get side tracked calling them her eyes and ears. For women especially Latina women who want to follow in her footsteps she says “know yourself first, define your own meaning of success and once you step in don’t step out until you’ve accomplished what you set out to do. Know that it takes more than just a pretty face and at times it can get hard so prepare to roll up your sleeves and cry your makeup off. And never forget the woman your mother raised you to be.”
As for the future Vazquez wants to a producer and author hoping to write a book one day. She says she would like her work alongside Junot Diaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Piri Thomas on a library shelf one day.
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