Hello, I'm Beto! I began my career as a fitness instructor in my home city of Cali, Colombia. One day, I arrived to teach a class and realized I left my regular aerobics music at home. I looked in my bag, took out some salsa and merengue tapes, popped them into the sound system, and taught the first–ever Zumba® class. Mar 29, 2020 Zumba Step feat. The Zumba Rizer (45 min.): A cardio-conditioning blend of Zumba routines and step aerobics tone and strengthen glutes and legs; Zumba Rizer: designed to tone glutes and legs with a single device that redefines step aerobics, easily used at home with the Zumba Step DVD; 5. 101 Can't Dance. Zumba creator Beto Perez and actress Andrea Riseborough attend the Zumba Fitness DVD Launch party at the Music Box Theatre on March 24, 2011 in. Julio Jose Iglesias, Beto Perez and Malena Costa present 'Zumba' fitness at the Reebok Spots Club on July 27, 2011 in Madrid, Spain. Beto Perez Workout Fitness DVD NEW Sealed 3 - ZUMBA 101 - Can't Dance? Beto Perez Workout Fitness DVD NEW Sealed Beto Perez Workout Fitness DVD NEW Sealed $12.90. Beto Perez has an unusual knowledge to connect with people. He transmits the energy and the enthusiasm that give us the desire to try, helping us to discover that dancing is a simple way to be happy while we follow the music. Zumba is now a global movement to gain a healthy body and an alert mind. This is wonderful.
| Born | March 15, 1970 (age 51) |
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| Musical career | |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Website | betoperez.zumba.com |
Alberto 'Beto' Pérez, (born 15 March 1970), is a Colombian dancer, choreographer, businessman, and Zumba instructor. He created the exercisefitness program Zumba in the late 1990s which involves dance and aerobic exercise elements with accompanying music, specifically Latin, and associated martial arts moves, squats, lunges, and other aerobic techniques.
Beginnings[edit]
Pérez was raised in Cali, Colombia by a single mother and was working three jobs by age 14 to support his family. His passion was dancing, but he could not afford dance lessons. After he won a national lambada contest in Colombia, he was accepted to one of Cali's best academies to study dance while he taught step aerobics in return.
Business[edit]
In 1999, Pérez moved to Miami, Florida 'in search of the American Dream'.[1] Besides teaching aerobics classes, he tried to promote his fitness and dance routines with music at numerous venues. In 2001, Beto asked Williams Island fitness director (Brenda Anderson) to take a chance on promoting his dance routines in a class at the center. In 2003 after his first infomercial and with financial and technical assistance from Alberto Perlman and Alberto Aghion,[2] workshops resulted that were based on Zumba routines. His routines, initially distributed as DVDs, gained momentum that resulted in an international following.
In 2006 Pérez established Zumba Fitness LLC,[3] an organization that sells Zumba videos and products and charges licensing fees to its network of instructors (ZIN™ – Zumba Instructors' Network). It employs more than 200 employees. Reportedly some 14 million people in more than 160,000 locations in 185 countries are Zumba practitioners and dance and sing to fun music mainly provided by the company.
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Zumba Fitness has also released its fashion line of Zumbawear. The company manufactures Zumbawear for age-specific groups, including seniors, mothers and children. Besides the general Zumba Fitness brand, fashion lines include styles for Zumba Toning, Aqua Zumba, Zumba Sentao, Zumba Gold, Zumba Gold-Toning, Zumba Kids and Zumba Kids Jr, Zumba Step and Strong By Zumba. Its instruction programs are popular in community centers, youth activity centers, tourist venues, schools and retirement communities, among other venues.
Personal life[edit]
On the eve of March 15, 2020, his 50th birthday, Perez announced the birth of his daughter Antonella Perez on his Facebook page.[4] Antonella Perez was born on January 11, 2020.[5]
Music[edit]
Through his Zumba Fitness routines, Pérez promotes music and musical artists associated with Zumba, which positively affects musical success for artists in various Latin music genres.[6] An Associated Press article states that the Zumba movement has created an international fan base for Latin music, citing acts including Pitbull, Don Omar and Daddy Yankee.[6] Daddy Yankee's 'Limbo' shouts out for Zumba several times in the lyrics. Pitbull, Wyclef Jean and other stars have taken part in Zumba Fitness conventions. Other Zumba fans include Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
Zumba Fitness has released a series of music albums including Zumba Fitness Dance Party with music for Zumba classes worldwide. Pérez has collaborated with the Colombian Latin star Mara (full name Mara Prada),[7] with whom he has a hit 'Crazy Love' credited to Prada featuring Pérez. Prada, Haitian singer J. Perry and American singer Dahrio Wonder were named Zumba Fitness Emerging Artists.[6] A similar collaboration has developed with the well-established Brazilian star Claudia Leitte particularly after the adaptation of 'Largadinho' to Zumba moves. An English translation was also included as 'Lazy Groove.'[8][9] Leitte has become the international ambassador to Zumba Fitness. Pérez was also featured as a 'special guest'[10] in 'Fiesta Buena',[11] a hit by DJ Mam's that also featured Luis Guisao and Soldat Jahman. The single charted in France and Belgium,[11] following DJ Mam's international hit 'Zumba He Zumba Ha'.
Discography[edit]
Singles[edit]
Featured in[edit]
| Year | Single | Peak position [11] | Album | Music videos | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR [12] | BEL (Wa) [13] | ||||
| 2012 | 'Fiesta Buena' (DJ Mam's feat. Luis Guisao & Soldat Jahman and special guest Beto Pérez) | 12 | 50 | DJ Mam's album Fiesta Buena | [1] |
References[edit]
- ^http://betoperez.zumba.com/
- ^'Meet the Man Behind Zumba: Beto Perez'. Reader's Digest. November 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^'Zumba Fitness, LLC'. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^Perez, Antonella. 'Facebook'. Facebook. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^Antonella Pérez (January 12, 2020). 'Pérez born on January 11, 2020'.
- ^ abcGail Gedan Spencer (19 August 2013). 'Zumba is creating a new fan base for Latin stars'. Associated Press. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^Mara Prada website - biography pageArchived December 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Jornal do Sol: Claudia Leitte faz dobradinha com Beto Pérez no Tôa Tôa(in Portuguese)
- ^Radio Paiaia: Claudia Leitte causa alvoroço e dança zumba até o chão em feira paulista(in Portuguese)
- ^iTunes: 'Fiesta Buena' (DJ Mam's feat. Luis Guisao, Soldat Jahman & Special Guest Beto
- ^ abcLescharts.com 'Fiesta Buena' song page - DJ Mam's featuring Luis Guisao, Soldat Jahman and Beto Perez
- ^Lescharts.com: Beto Perez page
- ^Ultratop.be/fr: Beto Perez page
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Overview
Want to eat delicious foods and still lose weight?
Shake things up and slim down with the weight loss phenomenon that's taking the country by storm.. Zumba!
Created by celebrity fitness trainer Beto Perez, Zumba combines fun, easy-to-follow dance steps with hot Latin beats to help you shed pounds and inches fast. Now the DVD and classes that have hooked millions are available in book format, with a complete workout program, fat-burning diet, as well as a DVD with a 5-minute instructional demo that shows the basic moves you'll need to learn plus 60 minutes worth of music to help you Zumba your way to the perfect body.
Using the principles of interval and resistance training, the simple dance and sculpting moves (inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba, and merengue) tone and shape your body. And because it burns 600 to 1,000 calories per hour, you don't have to restrict your meals to boring or bland-tasting diet foods. The Zumba diet begins with a 5-Day Express Diet to jump start weight loss (lose up to 9 lbs in 5 days) and then offers 14-day meal plans and recipes that target weight loss in the stomach and thighs. You'll find:
Hot moves that make you feel like you're on the dance floor-not on the elliptical machine!
Recipes for mouthwatering meals that boost your metabolism
Dozens of workout combinations so you never get bored
An exclusive jump-start program to get you ready for that big event next weekend
An easy plan to help you keep up your progress and maintain the weight loss
So start moving, grooving and losing with Zumba today!