Élan Luz Rivera

American singer

Hip hop
Latin
pop
R&B

Occupation(s)

Singer
actress

Instrument(s)VocalsYears active1993–presentLabelsEpic

Musical artist

Élan Luz Rivera (born June 1982) is an American Latin hip hop singer and actress. She is one-third of Latin hip-hop trio The D.E.Y.

Voices

Sunny Day - Rox
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony - The People of Liberty City
Grand Theft Auto IV - Carmen Ortiz

Life and career

Rivera was born and raised in 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.

References

^ "Seizing The D.E.Y. - TV.com". www.tv.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-09.
^ "The Capeman". Internet Broadway Database. 1998. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
^ "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Internet Broadway Database. 2001. Retrieved 2008-06-16.