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BLP sources|date=August 2010Infobox musical artist|image= || name = Millie Corretjer| | caption =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Milagros Ninette Corretjer Maldonado| birth_date = Birth date and age|1974|4|18| origin = San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan , Puerto Rico | Location = Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles , Los Angeles , California | spouse = Oscar de la Hoya | son = Oscar Gabriel , Nina Lauren Nenitte | genre = pop music|Pop , country-pop , adult contemporary music|adult contemporary | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1995–2003| website = http://www.MillieCorretjer.com MillieCorretjer.com Milagros Ninnete Corretjer Maldonado , known as, Millie Corretjer (b. April 18, 1974, is a Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican singer and actress. She is married to boxer Oscar De La Hoya .cite book|last1=Shaw|first1=Lisa|last2=Dennison|first2=Stephanie|title=Pop culture Latin America!: media, arts, and lifestyle|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=ZqRtnRgMm7wC& pg=PA91|accessdate=11 August 2010|date=January 2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-504-9|page=91
Early years
At the age of 15, Corretjer hosted a Puerto Rican television show named La Ola Nueva ( The New Wave ). In 1995, she released the album Sola ( Alone ), which sent three of her songs to the Billboard magazine|Billboard lists and the album featured two Spanish versions of Selena songs "Where Did the Feeling Go? which was called Donde Te Has Ido Amor and "Only Love" called Solo Tu. In 1997, Corretjer released her second album, Emociones ( Emotions ). Her third album, 1999's Amar es un Juego earned her a golden album in Puerto Rico, her song De Hoy en Adelante ( From Today On ) ranked number one on Billboard for more than six weeks. Millie has a very soft, low and angelic singing voice when she sang. Corretjer and her music became well known in Puerto Rico, Latin American countries, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (where she lived for six months) and the United States.
Corretjer marries Oscar De La Hoya
In 2000, Oscar De La Hoya recorded his first music album. In the studio, while trying to record songs for his album, De La Hoya was finding it difficult to sing with more passion. To demonstrate passionate singing, his producer Rudy Perez showed him "Una Voz en el Alma", one of Corretjer's music videos from the previous album that he had produced for Millie. De La Hoya asked for the name of the singer in the video, and the producer replied that she was a singer and actress named Millie Corretjer, who had previously worked with him.
De La Hoya at the time, asked that Corretjer be the model on his next music video. After meeting each other on an EMI convention in Texas, Corretjer and De La Hoya fell in love and began dating. Corretjer and De La Hoya were married on October 5, 2001, in a secret ceremony in San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan .
Millie made an appearance in an Oscar video "Para Que" and years later Oscar did the same in Millie's latest album "En Cuerpo y Alma" for the song video "En Cuerpo y Alma".
Currently
On December 29, 2005, Corretjer gave birth to Oscar Gabriel De La Hoya Corretjer in San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan , Puerto Rico . On May 5, 2007 in Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas , just one hour after the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight was over, in Oscar's locker room, Corretjer revealed to De La Hoya that she was three months pregnant with their second baby.Citation needed|date=October 2007 Their second child, a girl, named Nina Lauren Ninette De La Hoya Corretjer, was born on December 29, 2007, on Oscar Gabriel's second birthday.
Persondata | NAME =Corretjer, Millie | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =April 18, 1974 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Corretjer, Millie Category:1974 births Category:Living people Category:People from San Juan, Puerto Rico Category:Puerto Rican television actors Category:Puerto Rican female singers Category:Puerto Rican people of Dutch descent
