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Joby Vazquez was born in New York City and proudly first generation Dominican. Her family then moved her to California where she began her dance career at the age of 19 with Modern, Jazz, Ballet and Hip-Hop. During this time, she spent three years in an Orange County Theater Dance Company “On Common Ground”. She began her Salsa dancing in 1993. In 1994 she, Luis Vazquez and Janette Valenzuela founded the first Salsa dance company in California, Salsa Brava.
Back then; everyone thought Salsa was something you ate with chips. But with Joby’s determination to dance Salsa anywhere, she contributed to expose a style of Salsa no one had seen before all over the world. It started in Puerto Rico’s 1st Annual Congress in 97’ and than quickly grew from her visits to 36 different countries. She has trained some of the best Salsa dancers in Los Angeles. Joby Vazquez has had wonderful opportunity to perform in videos, movies, television, film, and stage shows with artist such as Sinbad, Tito Puente, Thalia, Jennifer Lopez, Chayanne, Vanessa Williams, Tito Nieves, Quincy Jones, Donnie & Marie, Rosanne Bar, and The Four Tops. Joby has also choreographed for TV shows such as MAD TV (WB), City of Angles (CBS) and Sinbad’s VIBE TV (UPN).
In her years as a pioneer of what is now considered “L.A. Style Salsa” she has been blessed to receive prestigious awards such as:
- Sabor Magazine’s “Best Dance Company Award 2001, 2002, & 2003”
- Sabor Magazine’s “Best Female Dancer in L.A. 2001”
- Albert Torres Productions’ “Lifetime Contribution Award 2001”
- Congreso Bacardi 2001 “Contribution to Salsa Culture”
- Mayor Jeremy Harris of Hawaii for “Outstanding efforts to promote culture exchange between Hispanic Community & Hawaii” 2001
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