Talk:Osmel Sousa

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Nationality[edit]

Osmel Sousa is nacionality Venezuelan-Cuban. Sourse:http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_89/ai_73236103/pg_5--K4zem 15:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

impresario or businessman[edit]

Question: Is the better description of of Osmel Sousa an impresario or a businessman or something else? Businessman is pretty vague. Bejnar 17:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On 18 August 2006 User:Geniac suggested that Osmel Sousa "does not appear to be a producer". I beg to differ. He runs the Miss Venezuela production, which is a national beauty pageant program, and very big in Venezuela, with the finale pre-empting prime-time TV. He is not just a figurehead. Bejnar 16:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not familar with Sousa or beauty pageants, so please help me understand his role. I said he does not appear to be a producer because I didn't see any mention of "producer/ed/ing" in the article; president of the organization, adviser of contestants, designer of nightgowns and driving force behind successful contestants, but no "producer of..."

By "national beauty pageant program" do you mean television program?

By "the finale pre-empting prime-time TV", do you mean the pageant is aired on television?

Is Sousa a television producer, then?

-- Geniac 17:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He is not primarily a television producer, he is a pagent producer. Suggest you read the Miss Venezuela article, and maybe the interviews listed in External links and the stuff in References. Then prehaps you can add (edit in) the kind of language that would help other readers understand his multifold roles. Bejnar 21:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Michelangelo[edit]

On 28 March, I removed the unsourced sentence: "It is certainly the Michelangelo of the female latin beauty according to attorney Yali Molina of Florida." that had been added by IP editor 70.147.40.212. If a verifiable source can be provided it can be added back. Note if that was you edit, please, when adding material, do not place it between existing content and their references. The references need to remain with their content. --Bejnar 23:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nuestra Belleza Latina[edit]

On 19 April 2007, IP editor 65.78.99.68 added the following:

"Osmel is currently the head judge of a pageant called Nuestra Belleza Latina which airs through Univision."

Pending verification, this has been moved here. --Bejnar 22:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No verification of head judge status, but that it likely. Other verified by Business Wire. --Bejnar 22:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rumours About Death[edit]

Osmel himself has confirmed to be alive on his Twitter account

--Jale Swiftpaw (talk) 04:03, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Birth year[edit]

Osmel Sousa's birth date of 26 September 1946 was added by Disciplinado, an editor from Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, on 17 July 2009, correcting his entry of Sousa's birth year the day before of 1947. No other sources that I've found have contradicted that date. On 1 May 2015 an IP editor 2602:306:c5d3:9ca0:63:7a15:60d:172f (in their single Wikipedia edit) changed the birth year to 1925. That would have made him 44 years old when he went to work for the pageant, not impossible, but unlikely. A birth year of 1946 would have made him 23 years old, which is more likely. His 1996 photo looks more like a man forty-five or fifty years old, than one seventy-one years old, similarly the interview here shows what appears to be a younger man than one born in 1925. Because of this I have restored the birth year back to 1946. That would make his arrival in Venezuela in late 1959 or early 1960 when he was thirteen and went to live with his grandmother. See "Osmel Sousa: El niño que se convirtió en zar". --Bejnar (talk) 08:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Batiz, César and Lindarte, Jhon (2015). "Miss Venezuela, la cara bonita de la decadencia" (PDF). Nueva Sociedad (in Spanish) (255 January/February): 145–153, page 148.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) gives the birth year as 1945. --Bejnar (talk) 10:29, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]