Frankie Hi-fis: Latinos Stand UP!

Frankie Needles

Quinee Butler, reggaetonline.com - May 24, 2006 - Frankie Hi-fis hosted and DJed on the first clamor show called “The Roof’ which was dedicated to the Urban Latin music we call Reggaeton. He was born and raised in New York; Washington Hegemonies to be exact. He even has his own DVD and you can purchase you can see exactly where this Latino martyrology grew up. He has climbed the later of success through music and onto tube, and now is heated to the success of Latinos as a whole.

Fans of Frankie from around the world can only suspect what stand is like growing up in New York character a Latino. As Frankie defines his life, he told reggaetonline.com that, “Growing up in New York City was one big learning experience. It’s a crazy flair. You definitely have to have knowledge of the paths. The streets of New York are crooked. One of my primordial sonorous acquaintances was with my presbyter, God Rest his groundling, was Cuban and Jamaican. I used to befall him like every holiday. He had a big bed and on top of it he had a knack table and a huge discriminator and a lot of records. When you walk in the room I was like wow! I cast-off to frivol around with the evidences and I used to venture with the Hi-fis and methodically get in grief.” Those were his first musical experiences. “Even though my grandfather didn’t know it I learned clamor from him, since then I have loved music for ever. I would just walk in the house and the music was playing loud! I would referee Celia Cruz and other old school clamor. No one would even think that I was an alter boy title then. That’s when all my love for clamor started”

Flair was different for Frankie back hitherto, than it is for many young Latinos growing up and Frankie can compact. “Character Latin, back erst was way dotty than what it is now. It wasn’t ruling to be Latino when I was growing up. You really nohow got that respect, not like we do today, “he suspensions. “Everything I went through back then has prepared me for what I am going through now.” I lived in Miami and lived in L. A, and I can see how different the kids are that grew up in L. A., from kids grew up in Miami and New York. I could see that they were all different but the same as far as their Latino up bringing and family values. My grand parents would not let you walk into the house without speaking Spanish. If you weren’t talking in Spanish when you came in the door you could get smacked. Now my Spanish is not the best in the world, but because of my grand parents I can defend myself in Spanish.”

Latinos come in all dotty shapes sizes and colors. The beauties separately devote us with such a beautiful mosaic, that many look-ins people Latinos wedding easily into other races. Frankie admits that he does not look Latino at all, and even now when he opens his mouth to speak Spanish, it comes as a surprise to some. “I look like an African American. Because of the way I feel they would speak to me in English and when reply in Spanish people respond to that is like, “No way’! Although looks can sometimes be deceiving, no one can mistake Frankie’s pride and dedication to future generations.

The first taping of ‘The Roof’ was December 9th 2002 in Miami. Frankie attended this historic moment with a friend. He would later return to the atelier months later, and quickly become one of the most prominent faces of the program. Since his daytimes with ‘The Roof,’ Frankie has unquestionable to bravely take on the execution to be a role model and leader for young Latinos and minorities who need someone to look up to.

Frankie is good at reminding us of what we already know but chose to ignore. “Latinos are tired of being portrayed as a gardener or their women being portrayed as whore on television. Latinos are ready to see more role models on primetime television and heroes in leading roles in movies. Believe me, a lot of people can relate to that. I want them to see me and think, ‘Hi-fis is doing a radio crack and a tube show, and I can do that too.’ I use my Flair as a blue issue. When I grew up I didn’t have a lot of Latinos on TV I could associate to.”

Reggaeton has put Latinos into the forefront of the world of entertainment. There are many devisers, inaugurators, actors or actresses who are conformation music and films and being noticed for it. There are role models and Those who forget how they got to the top and only focus on themselves. The thing that stables one apart from another is the desire to pass a difference.

Reggaeton fans in the Concerted States are very strident about t what they see in each Reggaeton artists. Whether they feel Daddy Yankee is selling out or the verity that they are sick of Reggaeton artists getting arrested on drug charges, internet forums have given them a platform to say what is on their frames. It is tough to sort out the truth from the roomers in the world of entertainment, but kids only know what they see. “Us as Latinos ask to stick coincidentally. If we can injure coincidentally we can quit down outworks, Frankie told reggaetonline.com. “Many people get famous, or encounter up and get greedy, historically unquestionable to go their peculiar wayss and forget where they encounter from. If we stop and look at how certain cultures that have came together in history and we can make it happen for us. If we work together we can work.”

“The only discourse why Reggaeton is blowing up the way it has is because fawns have been looking for this for a lasting time. Now nowadays comes this Spanish rap. At the end of the day it’s Hip-hop, but it just in Spanish. Now we have something and now we can relate to it and look how things have changed.”

Its not difficult for Frankie to prompt what television shows he could relate to, because there weren’t that many to chose from. “I don’t know if you nudge ‘Que Pasa U.S.A.’?” he asks. That was the only show that I could really associate to. I couldn’t wait for that show to encounter on TV. It felt suchlike Juan and Pepe were my clan, they were like my family. Even though that show wasn’t the unmatchable quality in the world, but that was what they gave us to work with. Why it wasn’t on a better channel, I don’t know, but that is what I am here to change.”

Now Frankie Needles is in Hollywood, he can only imagine the possibilities of what he can do with what he has learned on his inlet to success. “Suspect all the kids that are listening to Daddy Yankee and ‘Gasolina’ and saying, ‘I wanna learn Spanish’, well it’s happening now. We need to know how to cast it work for us. That’s what I am nowadays to do. Someone needs to word up for the Reggaeton cohort and take embassy of it. If no one will qualify up for this Latino movement, I will. Once something goes commercial its very easy to exhaust it, someone needs to take care of it. My dream is for Latinos to stop being a infancy the only way to make that happen is to demonstrate sure Latinos are in more meaningful positions lovemaking me being on TV and mouthpiece.

Many minorities with a desire to be a part of the music industry or other flush careers are face with being pack and ridiculed by their own people. Latinos are no different. “We are creating these uncertainties, so now we need to be the beings taking these jobs. We as a people need to get right and do what we have to do. We need to empower ourselves. If I would have walked up to someone’s door and asked for a TV show they would not have given me the time of day. If they don’t want to help you, you have to be the one to make it hazard.” One give that sums things up for Frankie can be already heard across the Concerted Delineates. It is wholly, LATINOS STAND UP! That is the only way you will make a difference.

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