OVERLAND PARK, Kan.,
Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Sprint (NYSE: S) and Prince
Royce announced today Amanda da
Silva de Almeida as the grand prize winner of #LiveUnlimited
The Dreams Academy music contest. Amanda from Roselle, New Jersey, will receive $10,000, a one-on-one mentorship session with
Prince Royce and a writing and
recording session with producers Jean
Rodriguez and Danny Flores
from COASTCITY. Runners-up David
Mejorado from El Paso,
Texas and Luis Fabian Lara
from Casa Grande, Arizona, will
each receive $5,000.
Last December, Sprint and Prince
Royce teamed up to launch the first phase of #LiveUnlimited
The Dreams Academy. The program provides aspiring artists and
innovators resources – including grants and mentorship
opportunities – to pursue their ambitions.
The first contest encouraged musical artists and bands to submit
a video entry showcasing their talent. Aspiring artists nationwide
submitted personal videos to enter the contest. The public helped
narrow down the top-10 finalists by voting for their favorite, and
from those top-10 finalists Prince
Royce and Sprint selected the grand-prize winner and two
runners-up.
"It was an honor for me to help select the winners as it was a
moment to pay it forward to aspiring, talented artists who are full
of determination and share a passion for music," said Prince Royce. "It's been a nostalgic experience
teaming up with the brand that helped ignite my career and wants to
do the same for others in our community!"
"Congratulations to all of our winners," said Alberto Lorente, Vice President of Multicultural
Marketing at Sprint. "The caliber of talent from the aspiring
artists was so impressive, and we can't wait to see what the future
holds for this amazing program as we meet and help exceptional
community members pursue their dreams."
Additional categories within the program will be added in the
coming months and may include such topics as technology,
entrepreneurship and community activism.
Make sure to visit sprint.com/dreams or follow @SprintLatino on
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for updates on #LiveUnlimited The
Dreams Academy program.
GRAND-PRIZE WINNER
Amanda da
Silva de Almeida from Roselle,
NJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vXaOKb8ZQE
Amanda is originally from Brazil and her passion and love for music
doesn't stop at singing. She writes her own music and plays the
keyboard and guitar. At 13 years old, she won her first talent show
by performing a song she wrote herself. The recognition inspired
her to pursue music and share her personal stories with the
world.
She is currently in her last semester at Kean University, Union,
New Jersey, and she plans to graduate with a bachelor's
degree in cellular and molecular biology.
RUNNERS-UP
David
Mejorado from El Paso,
TX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TIrvqaDHAE
David Mejorado has a dream of
becoming a recording artist that will inspire others as an example
that anything is possible when you believe and persist without
limits. Over the past year, he's released two singles "Alguien Más"
and "No Quiero Saber" and is currently working to record a new
demo.
Luis Fabián Lara from Casa Grande,
Arizona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhN90kIZxs
For Luis Fabián Lara, music is in his blood as he comes from a
family of musicians. He is currently a student that continues to
make time for music because being on stage and creating music makes
him feel free and closer to one day paying it forward for another
aspiring artist.
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications
services company that creates more and better ways to connect its
customers to the things they care about most. Sprint served 54
million connections as of Sept. 30,
2017, and is widely recognized for developing, engineering
and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless
4G service from a national carrier in the
United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and
Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk
capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. You can learn
more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
About Prince Royce
In
the past 7 years, multi-platinum award-winning, singer and
songwriter Prince Royce has become a
bonafide Latin superstar, scoring 15 number one radio hits, 22
Latin Billboard Awards, 19 Premio lo Nuestro Awards (Univision), 19
Premios Juventud Awards (Univision), 6 Latin AMAs, and 11 Latin
Grammy nominations.
Royce has a massive fan base with more than 2 billion streams
online, over 45 million followers on social media and he has sold
out some of the most prestigious venues in Latin America and the US.
His latest album, FIVE, was released in February 2017 and is Royce's fifth career album.
The record debuted at #1 on Billboards Latin Albums chart and
earned Royce the highest first-week sales of any Latin album in the
two years prior to the release. The production, was preceded by
four hit singles, "Culpa al Corazón", "La Carretera", "Moneda",
"Deja vu" and includes a plethora of wonderful collaborations with
Shakira, Zendaya, Chris Brown,
SpiffTV, Farruko, Gente de Zona, Gerardo Ortíz and Arturo Sandoval. The album has been certified
Double Platinum by the RIAA in the United
States and has garnered multiple international
certifications. FIVE, made the Top Latin Albums list at Billboard's
coveted end of year issue and Billboard also named Royce one of the
Top Latin Artists of 2017.
Some of his other creative collaborations include: Jennifer Lopez, Selena
Gomez, Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Thalia, Maná, Daddy Yankee,
among others. Prince Royce has also
started to purse his acting career and co-starred as Peter in the
Fox Live musical broadcast of "The Passion" in 2016 and was part of
the cast of Hulu's hit series, "East Los High". 2017 also brought
other accolades including his induction into the Bronx Hall of Fame
and running the New York City Marathon to raise funds and awareness
or education in public schools and kidney disease.
Follow Prince Royce:
www.princeroyce.com
www.facebook.com/princeroyce
www.twitter.com/princeroyce
www.instagram.com/princeroyce
www.youtube.com/PrinceRoyceVEVO
About COASTCITY
Coastal vibes with a city attitude.
That's probably the best way to describe the essence
of COASTCITY. The Grammy nominated artist-production
duo is comprised of Jean Rodríguez and Danny Flores,
two talented and multi-faceted musicians who created an avant-garde
bilingual musical project known as COASTCITY.
While working together on Jean's third studio
album, Rodríguez and Flores realized what they
were creating was simply magic. It was then they decided to put
Jean's album on hold and embark on a joint musical venture
establishing themselves as a production-artist duo. Creating
their own musical lane, both lyrically and through a fresh and
innovative sound, they created a new genre and coined the
term "soul caribeño" (Caribbean soul) to describe their music.
Dubbed the "Latino N.E.R.D.", individually and/or
together COASTCITY has worked with renowned artists such
as: Beyoncé, Shakira, Luis Fonsi, J Balvin, Marc Anthony, Prince
Royce, Chris Brown, Juanes,
TreySongz, and Yandel, amongst others.
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