Élan Luz Rivera

Élan Luz Rivera (born June 11, 1981) is an American singer and voice actress. She is one-third of Latin hip-hop trio The D.E.Y.

Élan Luz Rivera
Also known asÉlan of The D.E.Y.
Born (1981-06-11) June 11, 1981
New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
InstrumentsVocals
LabelsEpic
Associated acts

Voices

Life and career

Rivera was born and raised in the New York City.[1] As a child she worked as an actress, appearing in the movie, Life with Mikey, and also made a guest appearance on the television series, Ghostwriter. Elan attended LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts (The "Fame" School). She made her first appearance on Broadway as Cookie in the musical play The Capeman from 29 January to 28 March 1998 at the Marquis Theatre in New York,[2] From 26 April to 13 May 2001 she played Susie Rogers in musical comedy The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at the Minskoff Theatre in New York.[3] In 2005, Divine introduced her to rapper Yeyo. During the making of their album, she worked with the American pop singer Ashley Tisdale in the background vocals for her 2007 hit song "He Said She Said" and wrote "Fuego" for The Cheetah Girls' first Bi-lingual single with producer J.R. Rotem and songwriter Evan Bogart.

Rivera was featured and wrote on The 2008 LL Cool J album Exit 13 under the name Elan of The Dey.


Artistry

Rivera has formal training in singing in Hindi, German, Italian, Spanish and Sanskrit.

gollark: There's no room.
gollark: Do you have to have faith that I have not put invisible spy unicorns into your walls?
gollark: Not necessarily! They could just, at some level, think it's socially advantageous to believe rather than actually treating it as a good explanation for anything.
gollark: Explain, please.
gollark: A lot of people explicitly (claim to) believe in religion based on "faith".

References
  1. http://www.tv.com/news/seizing-the-dey-10944/
  2. "The Capeman". Internet Broadway Database. 1998. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
  3. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Internet Broadway Database. 2001. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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