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Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents. Author of “Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles” published in 2009 and most recently "Everyday Chica" Music and More 2011
As Latinos/as we struggle to define and redefine ourselves, works like 'Everyday Chica" are indispensible in our search for a new identity. Although Cristina Milanes's work is fresh and new, it brings an air of the old Country's classical storytelling that has been lost through the decades. By listening to her poetry we become aware of our new identity being a mixture of the Ancestral Traditions and our New Reality to form who we are today…. The Universal Latina, we are the “Everyday Chica”
Cecilia loves to read and perform, especially with her musical collaborators Kevin Meehan, vocals and guitars and her husband Jorge Milanes, vocals and percussion.