Iris Belia Chacón Tapia (born March 7, 1950 in San Juan, Puerto Rico)
is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, and entertainer. She enjoys great
popularity in Puerto Rico (where she had a weekly variety show for
more than a decade) and in other Latin American countries, as well as
such U.S. locales as New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.Chacón has been
known by various nicknames, such as "La Bomba de Puerto Rico" (The
Puerto Rican Bombshell), and "La Vedette de América" (America's
Showgirl). During her heyday in the 1970s and early 1980s, she toured
most of Latin America, the United States, Europe and Japan. She also
starred in two movies and many telenovelas, such as Yo Sé Que
MentÃa.In 1982, AMCAR, Inc. hired her for a television commercial
about Amalie Oil Company automobile coolant products, which became one
of the most famous television commercials in Puerto Rico's history.
The publicity surrounding the commercial landed her in a front-page
article in The Wall Street Journal in June 1983 entitled "A Onetime
Choirgirl Rules as Sex Goddess On Puerto Rican TV". The ad employed a
play on words between the English word coolant and Spanish culón
which means large derrière.
is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, and entertainer. She enjoys great
popularity in Puerto Rico (where she had a weekly variety show for
more than a decade) and in other Latin American countries, as well as
such U.S. locales as New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.Chacón has been
known by various nicknames, such as "La Bomba de Puerto Rico" (The
Puerto Rican Bombshell), and "La Vedette de América" (America's
Showgirl). During her heyday in the 1970s and early 1980s, she toured
most of Latin America, the United States, Europe and Japan. She also
starred in two movies and many telenovelas, such as Yo Sé Que
MentÃa.In 1982, AMCAR, Inc. hired her for a television commercial
about Amalie Oil Company automobile coolant products, which became one
of the most famous television commercials in Puerto Rico's history.
The publicity surrounding the commercial landed her in a front-page
article in The Wall Street Journal in June 1983 entitled "A Onetime
Choirgirl Rules as Sex Goddess On Puerto Rican TV". The ad employed a
play on words between the English word coolant and Spanish culón
which means large derrière.
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