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Priscilla Star Diaz – known to her fans as P-Star – has rhymed with the best of them. She has won the Citywide Hip Hop Competition. She has taken home eight beauty pageant titles. She has filmed her own pilot and been the subject of MTV interviews.
P-Star is only 12 years old.
She and her older sister started out life in a foster home until their father gained custody and the three moved to the Bronx. After their father suffered a series of health setbacks, the family moved to Harlem, when P-Star discovered – as she put it – that she “could spit fire.” Before long, she was battling everyone, everywhere and, last year, she was the youngest female entrant into the Citywide Hip Hop Competition. She won.
Now with her new single, “Wanna Make You Dance” and a full-length album, Welcome to My Show, with Hunc Records/DFE slated for release this summer, P-Star is ready to win the airwaves, too. In 2005, she was featured as the lead vocalist on Reggaeton Ninos Vol. 1 which has sold more than 200,000 copies. Her television appearances include Sabado Gigante, Primer Impacto, One Nation, and the Latin Grammy Awards.
P-Star has also been something of a mixtape phenomenon and her debut single, “Biggie Bounce,” was released last year and featured on www.kidzbop.com. That debut attracted the attention of MTV which then featured the young star on You Heard It First. She subsequently became the Opening Voice of Hot 97’s Angie Martinez Show on New York City radio.
P-Star attended the Jo Lee Dance and Performance Arts School, and received acting lessons at the City Lights Youth Theater. Since then, she has appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Take the Train to Maine at the Second Stage Theater. In a short film, 2005’s Sita, she played a little girl dying of AIDS; that year, she also appeared in Hijinks, a Candid Camera-style show for kids on Nick at Nite featuring Susan Sarandon. Most recently, P-Star shot a pilot for her own show on Nickelodeon, P-Star and Angela. Additionally, she has finalized a second pilot, The Adventures of Super Jane.
P-Star appears in well-known Hip Hop DVDs, including What's Really Hood Vol. 4 and Don Diva and Smack DVD. She has also been featured in Red Ink entertainment magazine and Xplosive, New York Daily News, Right On, The Ave, and Teen Magazine.
ACE of Spades Entertainment and Club Speed presented P-Star with a plaque for "Best Performer of the Year 2004." The City Wide Youth Organization recently presented P-Star with the "Best MC" trophy for the 2005 competition.
Besides being a gifted rapper and dancer, this young lady of Cuban and Puerto Rican won first place in the 2004 "Little Miss Harlem" Black and Latino Beauty Pageant; the Miss All American State Finals; and the Junior Miss International Beauty Pageant. P-Star was the first female in beauty pageant history to perform hip hop on stage and win the pageant. She has gone on to model for Royal Addiction, Baby Phat, J. Lo, and Roca Wear.
P-Star received the "Latina of Distinction" award in 2005. The same year, the NYC Dept. of Education honored her with The Legendary Hip Hop Pioneers for the Future of Hip Hop award, recognizing her for her positive presence in the community.
Recently, she appeared on the MTV show MADE and on the show DLIFE on CNBC. She will also be making an appearance in a soon-to-be-released documentary on BET, Girlfight. In addition, a documentary about P-Star's life story, is being filmed by TRU/NOBILITY Productions.
Although P-Star has come quite a long way, she is ready to put in the work that will take her up the charts. "To do this, you have to make sure you want it — not because you can rap and you think you're good, but because you want it," she said. "And I dearly do want this. This is my heart right now. This is my love. And I don't ever want to do anything else."
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