Rodri J. Rodriguez

A multi-talented artist-producer, Rodri J. Rodriguez is a visionary cultural arts advocate. Her spectacularly creative live event productions, have written a whole new chapter in the world of entertainment.

Rodriguez is President and CEO of Rodri Entertainment Inc., an international entertainment production company, founded in 1976. But Rodriguez’s presence has been felt in the entertainment arena since 1975, when she played a key role in the decision to have the Latin Category added to the Grammy Awards. In recognition of her efforts to give this music genre long overdue and deserved recognition, she accepted one of the first Grammy's awarded in this, then new category for Mongo Santamaria.

Entrepreneur to the core, Rodriguez is amongst the group of 29 successful entrepreneurs that this year filed to open the first Latino owned bank in California based in Los Angeles. One America Bank is being created to cater to the burgeoning Latino entrepreneurship in the number one Latino market in the nation.

In February of 2006 Rodriguez joined Peter Rawley and Ron Colby as Producers of the film “ONE” currently in pre-production in Caracas, Venezuela. A co-production between Spain and Venezuela, ONE is the life story of Venezuelan Television icon Renny Ottolina played by Olivier Martinez.

Rodriguez hosted her own radio talk show on Los Angeles’ #1 talk radio station KFI-AM 640 from 1995 to 1998.

Rodri is highly sought after as a motivational and keynote speaker for her innate ability to connect with and touch an audience not only in English, but also in her native language Spanish. Her commitment to a brighter future for today’s youth motivates her to spend considerable time speaking to students at grammar schools, high schools and universities.

In 2002, Rodriguez was elected to the Los Angeles County Fair Association, the first and only Latina elected to this Board and currently on this Board. Rodriguez is also the Founder and Chairman of the MARIACHI USA Foundation (1990 to present) Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hollywood Arts Council (1998 - 2006); Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles 1984 – 1990; Founding Member, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE); President, Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors 1979-1990, plus many other organizations.

Some awards include; The prestigious YWCA Silver Achievers Entrepreneur of the Year, the Hollywood Arts Council’s Charlie Chaplin Award, the KLVE FM107.5 Radio Outstanding Woman of the Year, the Golden Eagle Award from Ricardo Montalban’s ‘Nosotros’; awarded International Company of the Year by the Latin Business Association; awarded Woman of the Year by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre ‘Integrity Award’.

But beyond achievement, awards, and her unstoppable mission to entertain the soul and motivate the spirit there is a woman with a great heart, a contagious smile overflowing with immeasurable strength in her vision for the world.

Rodriguez is a native of Havana, Cuba having traveled to the United States, alone, as a child of the “Peter Pan” exodus of 14,000 children from Cuba. As a child, Rodri resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and currently resides in Studio City, California.


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