The multifaceted life of a Puerto Rican in the US: nurse, captain and artist

Puerto Rican Izis Rosario is a captain in the United States Army, where she also works as a nurse. Her work attire and her military uniform disappear overnight to make way for a life on the stage. She has been christened and is known in show business as Izis, the sauce nurse.

An inheritance that, as he explains to the voice of america, comes from his Puerto Rican blood. Some members of the clan devoted to weapons and others dedicated to music. For now, this singer, soldier, and nurse is stationed at the FT Belvoir Community Hospital in northern Virginia, in the Washington region.

The military comes from her father, who spent his career in the Army, that family life of travels took her to various destinations around the world, including Germany and several cities in the United States, but in the ‘Island of the charm’ he found what “moves his soul”: music.

What started as entertainment, was taking shape. When they got married 15 years ago, her husband encouraged her to try the tables. He is a producer of artists and also a military man, a complete complement to understand this multifaceted artist now.

“Music is in my veins thanks to my parents, my uncles and my cousins ​​who are outstanding in this, I carry music inside and it is salsa more than anything else that moves me,” says this singer and songwriter.

Shortly after residing in the Washington area, he says that he has created an audience with various shows, some solo, others in trio and with a live orchestra for the biggest salsa concerts.

To say goodbye to the year and receive 2023, she already has the night reserved to sing at an event in a renowned center of the American capital, so the new year will find her in one of the places where she is more than comfortable: the stage. Add in interview with VOA that his multiple careers complement each other “because there is always something more”, so much so that he has proven the power that music has in his patients who are in pain and on medication.

“I realized as a nurse that patients needed something more (…) I had patients who needed something beyond what the pills are, I have had several cases of singing to patients and seeing those changes in their faces,” she explains .

Although in the day-to-day of her military career she is not part of the contingent with weapons, this captain, who would be promoted to major next June, says that training and physical tests, as well as updating military tactics are constant. .

Hence, to fulfill his daily work in his career, he gets up very early to exercise and keep in shape, which also adjusts to the demands of the stage and hospital life.

“Thank God in military life I have also done very well”, and that career to which she owes herself – she adds – is the one that makes her go from one place to another on a mission, for which she is prepared to do it when a order.

“Any day they can tell me: ‘Rosario, you have to go, let’s go to war, or let’s go to serve another country and I have to be ready for all those situations,'” she says.

A voice of strength for women

Izis Rosario says that being in salsa in “an environment dominated mostly by men”, her voice comes to be heard as a woman and at the same time leave a message to her collective.

Also moving in music in two languages ​​is another additional advantage as “a female voice, but also sings, not only in Spanish,” he says.

But above all “I can be that voice for women, I felt that that female voice was needed to speak of independent, strong women, who break our hearts, but then say it’s up to me to move on.”

As well as her multifaceted life, she also says that she tries to make a varied show for different audiences, and although it is salsa that inspires her to go on stage, she also makes presentations with other genres and formats to bring joy to various audiences as she does these holidays.

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