{"id":8850,"date":"2018-03-11T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T12:07:16","slug":"nancy-alonso-2018-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/nancy-alonso-2018-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Alonso- 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nancy Alonso was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York of Puerto Rican parents. Nancy grew up\u00a0in the\u00a0New York City during the height of the Salsa era and witnessed history in the making.\u00a0\u00a0 She saw all the famous singers and musicians, danced to their music and even danced with Eddie Palmieri when she was 12 years old at the Brooklyn Casino.<\/p>\n

She moved to the Washington D.C. area in the 1980’s.\u00a0 Nancy co-owned and operated a mobile DJ service known as “The Dynamic Duo DJ’s”.\u00a0 Her skills\u00a0and expertise\u00a0as a music programmer allowed her to crack into the professional DJ boys club.\u00a0 Nancy was given the stage name DJ ISIS (I Spin In Style) and made dance club history in DC.\u00a0 As DJ ISIS, Nancy played in some of the DC area\u2019s\u00a0 popular and exclusive clubs including Numbers, Chicago, The Georgetown Library, Anastasia’s and The Pisces Club among others.<\/p>\n

Nancy and\u00a0Henry\u00a0are The Champions of\u00a0WAVA’s Disco Dance Contest.\u00a0\u00a0This $1000 prize dance contest\u00a0was the highlight of\u00a0the largest\u00a0halloween party (1988)\u00a0ever held in DC.\u00a0 It was held at the Post Office Pavilion\u00a0and attended by over 1000 people.\u00a0\u00a0Nancy and Henry\u00a0hustled their way into the history books as this was the last\u00a0disco\\hustle dance event of\u00a0its kind in the DC area.\u00a0 WAVA was later sold and the format changed.\u00a0\u00a0(bye bye disco station!)<\/p>\n

In the late 80\u2019s she concentrated more on\u00a0Salsa.\u00a0\u00a0 Nancy brought her knowledge of classic salsa and blended it with contemporary music.\u00a0 Nancy pioneered spinning Salsa Dura\u00a0at several Salsa clubs in Washington DC area\u00a0including South Beach and Chelsea’s and gained popularity among musicians and latin music lovers for her music programming talent. In 1992 she made her mark at \u201cHavana Caf\u00e9\u201d in Clarendon Virginia, \u00a0where she was given artistic license to play hard core Salsa and Cuban music.\u00a0 Havana Caf\u00e9 became the\u00a0first hot spot for Salsa in Virginia and was the inspiration for the Salsa scene in the Washington DC area.<\/p>\n

Nancy’s music programing skills and expert knowledge of Salsa and Afro-Cuban music\u00a0led her to becoming the\u00a0host of the Monday night “Latin Flavor” show on WPFW 89.3 FM (www.wpfw.org<\/a>) in May of 1999. Nancy’s format concentrates on\u00a0classic salsa as well as Latin jazz and contemporary groups whose repertoire of music more closely represents Afro-Cuban rhythms and New York-style Salsa. She also features local musicians and conducts interviews whenever musicians come to the Washington area from New York, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, Miami\u00a0and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Nancy has received many thanks and is the recipient of many awards for her dedication and devotion to the music.\u00a0\u00a0Nancy was voted SalsaMetro\u2019s \u201cBest Salsa DJ Of The Year\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nancy is the 2010 recipient of The Jose Ruiz Lifetime Achievement Award for her service to the latin community and dedication to latin music.<\/p>\n

Nancy was given the title “Thr First Lady of Salsa in Washington DC” by her peers.<\/p>\n

Nancy is\u00a0active as a speaker at Hispanic Heritage Month events, special guest DJ and as an\u00a0MC for events throughout the DC metropolitan area including\u00a0the Smithsonian Institute’s Jazz Cafe and 4th of July on the mall.\u00a0 Nancy recently added Salsa Club Promoter to her many titles when she launched Nancy Alonso’s Salsa Empire in the winter of 2013.\u00a0 To date Nancy has successfully promoted\u00a0Salsa Empire as the best place to dance to Salsa dura in the DMV, Washington DC Maryland and Virginia.<\/p>\n

Nancy celebrated 15 years on the air at a party at Salsa Empire on May 10, 2015.\u00a0 This party was attended by local, international celebrities and over 300 of her fans at the Empire Nightclub in Spriingfield, VA.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Nancy Alonso said goodbye to WPFW after 18 years on air to take on the position of Program Director at Salsa Empire Radio, an internet radio station broadcasting from the DC area to the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Nancy is still on the air on Salsa Empire Radio.\u00a0 The host of Nancy Alonso The Salsa Dura Show and other shows such as The Havana Cafe Radio Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Alonso was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York of Puerto Rican parents. Nancy grew up\u00a0in the\u00a0New York City during the height of the Salsa era and witnessed history in the making.\u00a0\u00a0 She saw all the famous singers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifetime-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capitalcongress.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}