Carlos may refer to:

• Carlos (given name)
• Carlos (surname)
• Carlos the Jackal (born 1949), Venezuelan-born terrorist
• Carlos (DJ) (born 1966), UK radio presenter
• Carlos I of Portugal
• Juan Carlos I of Spain
• Roberto Carlos

Fictional characters[link]

• Carlos (The Magic School Bus), a character from The Magic School Bus series of children's books and movies
• Carlos, the name of Reggie Mantle of the Spanish version of the Archie comics
• Carlos, a henchman to Le Chiffre in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale; see List of James Bond henchmen in Casino Royale
• Carlos Miyamoto, one of the player characters in the SNES game, Final Fight 2
• Carlos Nieto (Third Watch character), a paramedic in the TV series Third Watch
• Carlos Olivera, one of the two protagonists in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
• Carlos Solis, a character from Desperate Housewives
• Carlos Vallerte, the character in two of the Power Rangers series

Place names[link]

In the United States:

• Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County
• Carlos, Minnesota, a small city

Other[link]

• Carlos (guitar), a Korean brand of guitar
• Carlos (film), a 1971 German film
• Carlos, a meerkat in the television series Meerkat Manor
• a muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia) cultivar
• Carlos (TV miniseries), on French TV

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Jose Carlos Guevara (born March 18, 1982 in Uvalde, Texas) is a Major League Baseball pitcher in the Colorado Rockies organization.

Professional career[link]

Cincinnati Reds[link]

Guevara was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the seventh round (201st overall) of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft.

After signing with the Reds, Guevara began his career with the Billings Mustangs of the rookie league. He started two games for the Mustangs, going 1-0 with a 0.82 earned run average and striking out 14 in 11 innings.

Guevara finished his 2003 season with the Single-A Dayton Dragons. In 12 games including three starts, Guevara went 0-1 with a 3.4 ERA. He allowed 37 hits in 39.1 innings while striking out 39.

Guevara remained in Dayton for the entire 2004 season. He worked exclusively as a reliever, pitching 56.2 innings in 44 appearances. On the season, he posted a 3-4 record with nine saves. He also posted a 2.86 ERA and averaged more than a strikeout per inning, recording 90 on the season.

In 2005, Guevara was promoted to the High-A Sarasota Reds. He again appeared in 44 games, going 4-3 with a 2.45 ERA. He walked 14 batters in 51.1 innings while striking out 65.

Guevera pitched the 2006 and 2007 seasons for the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts. In 2006, he went 2-3 with a 3.72 ERA in 49 appearances spanning 77.1 innings. The following season, Guevara went 1-2 with a 2.32 ERA in 51 appearances. He also struck out 87 hitters after striking out 89 the season before.

2007 Rule 5 draft[link]

On December 6, 2007, Guevara was selected by the Florida Marlins in the Rule 5 draft and traded to the San Diego Padres the same day.

San Diego Padres[link]

On March 27, 2008, Guevara was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained groin. In five rehab appearances with the Triple-A Portland Beavers, Guevara pitched six scoreless innings, allowing two hits and striking out five. He was activated from the disabled list on May 31 when Padres starter Shawn Estes was placed on the disabled list. Guevera was released in April 2009 and signed with the independent Lincoln Saltdogs. The Padres purchased his contract on June 18, 2009.

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube

Carlos Rivera
Background information
Birth name	Carlos Rivera Guerra
Born	(1986-03-15) March 15, 1986 (age 26)
Origin	Huamantla, Mexico
Genres	Pop, Latin
Occupations	Singer, actor
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Sony BMG

Carlos Rivera Guerra, or better known as Carlos Rivera (born March 15, 1986, Huamantla, Tlaxcala), is a Mexican singer who rose to fame by becoming the winner of the third generation of La Academia.

Biography[link]

He was born to José Gonzalo Gilberto Rivera Ramírez and María de Lourdes Guerra Martínez Antonio, on March 15, 1986. Rivera became a local celebrity while still a child, winning several singing contests and hosting a radio show on Radio Huamantla. He rose to fame when he won the third generation of La Academia in 2004 at the age of 18. In 2005 he finally signed with Sony BMG and began plans to record his first album. While doing that he also entered Desafio de Estrellas 2 in which he placed 5th. He also played the role of "Fausto" in the TV Azteca series La vida es una canción ("Life is a song"). He also made a cameo appearance in the serial Los Sánchez. On October 3, 2006, he released his first and eponymous CD/DVD. At 2008, he starring the musical of Broadway Beauty and the Beast in Mexico for a couple of weeks, like a guest acotr. Starting July 2009, Carlos is playing Sky in the Mexico City production of "Mamma Mia!"

Awards[link]

• First place in the third generation of La Academia (USD $270,000) (2004)
• Award from the teachers' union of Tlaxcala (2005).

Discography[link]

Carlos Rivera (Release: October 3, 2006)

Carlos Rivera obtained his Gold award disc for selling more than 50,000 copies of his first album.

External links[link]

• Profile at the La Academia site (Spanish)
• CarlosRivera.com.mx Official Site (Spanish)
• Carlos Rivera at the Internet Movie Database
• CarlosRivera.com.mx/foro Official Forum (Spanish)

Carlos Vives
Carlos Vives at a concert in Boston.
Background information
Born	August 7, 1961 Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
Genres	Vallenato, cumbia, porro, champeta, rock, pop latino, bambuco
Occupations	Recording artist, composer and actor
Years active	1986–present
Associated acts	Rafael Escalona Juanes Hora Local Aterciopelados Bloque de Búsqueda (banda) Sidestepper
Website	www.carlosvives.com

Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (born August 7, 1961 in Santa Marta, Magdalena) is a Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Colombian singer, composer and actor.

Biography[link]

Carlos Vives was born on August 7, 1961.^[1] in Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, where he spent his first 12 years of life. At that age, he and his family moved to Bogotá in search of a better life. They lived with Diego Martinez and his family. In Bogota, he acquired a taste for rock, getting involved in the local music scene, and started playing in bars and cafés around the city.

1982-1989[link]

In 1982, Vives began acting in in a number of shows and telenovelas including "Pequeños Gigantes" (Little Giants - 1983) and "Tuyo es Mi Corazón" (Yours is My Heart - 1985). He finally found notoriety in 1986 by playing the title role of Gallito Ramírez (which told the story of a Colombian Caribbean coast boxer who falls in love with an uptight girl, who was portrayed by his first wife, Margarita Rosa de Francisco). (1986). That same year, he released his first album, Por Fuera y Por Dentro. The album, primarily made of ballads, failed to gain any success. In 1987, he released his second ballad album, No Podrás Escapar de Mí. Though the title track reached #30 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks, the album did not sell well. His next album, Al Centro de la Ciudad, would become his last album to feature synthesizer-romantic ballads. Some of the songs got some attention being featured in telenovelas, but the album, just as its predecessors, failed to gain success.

In 1989, he was offered an acting job in Puerto Rico, and upon moving, he took a break in his music career. There, he is remembered for his leading roles in the soaps La Otra and Aventurera.^[1] There he married Herlinda Gómez,^[1] his second wife (they have since divorced). Vives would spend his time between Colombia, Miami and the city of Mayagüez, Herlinda's hometown, during his marriage to her.

Since 1991[link]

Upon his return to Colombia in 1991, he was offered a TV role that would change his life forever. He was cast in the leading role of a fantasy series based in the life of vallenato composer Rafael Escalona called, not surprisingly, Escalona.^[1] He sang the composer's songs in the series, and that's when he retooled his career towards vallenato,^[2] gaining national success with the release of the Telenovela's two soundtrack albums, Escalona: Un Canto a la Vida and Escalona: Vol. 2.

In 1993, backed by the band "La Provincia", Vives released the album Clásicos de la Provincia in which he started fusing Vallenato with rock,^[1] pop and other Caribbean Colombian ethnic rhythms. This fusion scandalized Vallenato purists. This style of vallenato was a huge success not only in Colombia but all over Latin countries, and the albums' lead single, La Gota Fría, became a hit all over Latin America. Clásicos de la Provincia, won the Billboard Latin Music Awards Best Album and would become a timeless classic in Colombian and Latin American music, introducing Vallenato to both Colombia and the rest of the world.

The follow-up album, La Tierra del Olvido would mark a further step in Vives' desire to fusion rock, funk and pop music with traditional Colombian genres. The album gave Vives classic hits such as the title track, and the up-tempo opening track Pa' Mayte.

His subsequent releases, Tengo Fe (1997), El Amor de Mi Tierra (1999), Déjame Entrar (2001) and El Rock de Mi Pueblo (2004), were all commercially successful and were well-received by the critics. In 2001 Carlos Vives' album "Déjame Entrar" won him his first Grammy award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album.

In 2009 he released the album Clásicos de la Provincia II, which was sold exclusively in Colombian supermarket chain "Almacenes Éxito." The album saw Vives' return to covering famous Vallenato songs in his own style. It sold massively and the single Las Mujeres received wide radio airplay in all Colombia.

His hits include "Matilde Linda", "La Hamaca Grande", "La Gota Fría", "Alicia Adorada", "Pa' Mayte", "La Tierra del Olvido", "Tu Amor Eterno", "Fruta Fresca", "Déjame Entrar", "Luna Nueva", "Carito", "Papadio", "Como Tú" and "Décimas Del Parecido" (this last one a tribute to Guillermo Martínez, a Cuban-born radio host who resides in Mayagüez, and for whose program Vives was an occasional master control technician).

Personal life[link]

Vives was married to the famous Colombian actress Margarita Rosa de Francisco in a relation that was closely followed by the national media. Herlinda Gómez was his second wife.^[3] He's now married to former Miss Colombia Claudia Helena Vásquez and has 2 children,^[1] : Lucy Vives, his first daughter and his son from his marriage with Herlinda Gómez. He spends his time between Miami and Colombia, mainly Santa Marta and Bogotá.^[1]

Discography[link]

Carlos Vives

Ballads period

• Por Fuera y Por Dentro (1986)
• No Podrás Escapar de Mí (1987)
• Al Centro de la Ciudad (1989)

Vallenato/Ethnic fusion period

• Escalona - Un Canto A La Vida (1991)
• Escalona: Vol. 2 (1992)
• Clásicos de la Provincia (1993)
• La Tierra del Olvido (1995)
• Tengo Fe (1997)
• El Amor de Mi Tierra (1999)
• Déjame Entrar (2001)
• El Rock de Mi Pueblo (2004)
• Clásicos de la Provincia II (2009)

Melodic period

• Romántico (2005)

Filmography[link]

• La estrategia del caracol (José Antonio Samper Pupo), 1993
• Escalona (Rafael Escalona), 1992
• La Tele, 1995
• La mujer doble (Mateo Escontria), 1992
• LP loca pasión (Sammy), 1989
• Gallito Ramírez (Javier "Gallito" Ramírez), 1986
• Tuyo es mi corazón, 1985
• David Copperfield, 1983
• Pequeños gigantes, 1980's

Awards[link]

See also[link]

• List of singer-songwriters/Colombia
• Pop Latino

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Carlos Vives

• (Spanish) Official site

v t e Vallenato Musicians Renowned vallenato musicians Alejo Durán • Alfredo Gutierrez • Diomedes Diaz • Fonseca • Colacho Mendoza • Rafael Escalona • Emiliano Zuleta • Jorge Oñate • Iván Villazón • Kaleth Morales • Silvestre Dangond • Carlos Vives • Juancho De la Espriella • The Children of Vallenato

Carlos Mencia
Mencia prior to a live concert at a U.S. Army camp in the Persian Gulf Region
Born	Ned Arnel Mencía (1967-10-22) October 22, 1967 (age 44) San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Other names	Ned Holness[1]
Occupation	Actor, comedian, writer
Years active	1990–present

Carlos Mencia (born October 22, 1967), born Ned Arnel Mencia, is a Honduran-born American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race, culture, criminal justice, and social class. He was formerly the host of his own show on Comedy Central, Mind of Mencia.

Early life[link]

Mencía was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the seventeenth of eighteen children. His mother, Magdelena Mencía, was Mexican, and his father, Roberto Holness, was a Honduran whose distant ancestors included immigrants from Germany, England, and the Cayman Islands.^[2] At the time of his birth, Mencía's mother engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, and declined to give her son his biological father's last name.^[1][3] The name appearing on his birth certificate is "Ned Arnel Mencía", although Mencia has said that out of respect for his biological father he went by the Holness name anyway, and was known as "Ned Holness" until he was eighteen years old.^[1]

Mencia was raised Roman Catholic^[4] in East Los Angeles, California by his aunt Consuelo and uncle Pablo Mencia. By his own admission, staying out of trouble was difficult while growing up, but with the help of his family he excelled in school and stayed out of gangs. He majored in electrical engineering at California State University, Los Angeles, but left early to pursue a career in comedy after a successful performance at an open mic night at The Laugh Factory. He has an older brother named Joseph Mencia who often appeared on Mind of Mencia.

Career[link]

Mencia was a quick success at such venerated LA stand-up venues as The Comedy Store and The L.A. Cabaret. This led to appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show and Buscando Estrellas, where he attained the title "International Comedy Grand Champion." Then, in 1994, Mencia was chosen to host HBO's latino comedy showcase Loco Slam.

Mencia followed up Loco Slam by hosting Funny is Funny! on Galavision in 1998. He would continue to do stand-up, including a very successful tour in 2001 with Freddy Soto and Pablo Francisco, "The Three Amigos." Mencia also did two half-hour specials on HBO, the second of which won him a CableACE Award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. After the release of his first comedy album by Warner Records, Take A Joke America, Mencia performed his break-out performance on Comedy Central Presents in 2002.

By the time his career began to take off in the early 2000s, Mencia was also working as an actor doing guest appearances in the television shows Moesha and The Shield, and starring in the film Outta Time and the animated show The Proud Family.