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Vicki Solá: The Wacky Queen of the Waves
 Vicki
Solá and her long-running radio program Que Viva La
Música,heard on 89.1 WFDU-FM and
www.wfdu.fm , provide the
New York-metro community and beyond with Salsa and Latin
Jazz, produced by a singular mix of famous performers, plus
artists rarely heard on commercial stations.
Featured on American Latino TV, a program hosted at the time
by Daisy Fuentes, Solá has served as an advisor to the
Smithsonian Institution, and her articles have appeared in
internationally-circulated trade periodicals, like Latin
Beat Magazine, for which she writes the column "A Bite From
the Apple."
As she established her show, Solá worked full-time at a New
York Spanish commercial station, part-time at a faraway one
that offered "golden oldies" along with local fishing
reports, and took evening classes, in which professors
apologized for keeping her up. She performed freelance audio
production, usually at 3 a.m.
In short, she spent years guzzling black coffee, gulping
down cold pizza, and walking into walls.
Vicki Solá in the studio - Dubbed "The Wacky Queen of the
Waves", Solá is a master of the Radio Waves. Her radio show
"Que Viva La Salsa!" is a staple of the salsa creatures
throughout the world and even Don Jíbaro... her newest fan!
After she banged her head up against a particularly hard
cinder block, it dawned on her that the stories she cranked
out during her "spare time" were autobiographical. And she
felt compelled to share them.
Solá lives in "Regular" New Jersey, with her son Frank and
rescued canine Cookie (a shepherd-hound mix certified by the
county shelter as having been born on Earth).
"The Getaway That Got Away" - by
Vicki Solá
Full Court Press -- Book Review by Maria Aloss What happens when a Latina
Alice-in-Wonderland meets up with an extraterrestrial underdog-gone-bad?
You get The Getaway That Got Away (Full Court Press) by Vicki Solá, a
side-splitting SciFi fantasy detailing the adventures of
twenty-something workaholic Latin music DJ Nicki Rodriguez.
Dismayed by a basement-apartment existence supported by two low-paying
radio jobs, Nicki experiences a dramatic change in outlook when fate
transports her to an even lousier place—a distorted world inhabited
mostly by canine-humanoids trapped in a dimension somewhere between New
Jersey and outer space.
Living a dog's life—forced to work for and reside with Perswayssick
County's greedy, tail-wagging leader, self-described "business maggot"
Dr. B. Gneeecey—Nicki searches desperately for her pilfered portfolio
containing ten-thousand hard-earned dollars, praying fervently that her
life-threatening dimension burn heals so she can attempt a perilous
return to "regular New Jersey" and her old life.
All the while, Gneeecey (the elbow-high, hoop-earring-sporting
canine-humanoid depicted on the book's cover—a dynamic movie poster
illustration by artist Jay Hudson) is happily selling out Perswayssick
County's environment and welfare to a murderous mob of waxy-faced Jersey
gangster-style aliens.
And he's convinced them that Nicki as something they need! Complicating
matters further is the fact that Blirg, a month-long season where time
runs backward, arrives.
In the vein of Harry Potter, Solá's laugh-loaded story launches the
reader into a strange universe where things are not what they seem. Fans
of Douglas Adams' classic Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, and comic
strips Get Fuzzy, Monty (formerly Robotman), Dilbert, Garfield, and the
old Bloom County should also appreciate The Getaway That Got Away.
Along the way, young adults aged sixteen to six-hundred will spit their
drinks through their noses as they watch Alice's Wonderland collide with
The Wizard's Oz, at breakneck speed. (And no one's wearing helmets in
this land of 450–story skyscrapers and speeding, fully-articulated
thirty-two-door stretch limos...!)
"The Getaway That Got Away is my convoluted autobiography and then
some," states Solá, a longtime Latin music radio DJ herself. "Anyone
who's ever slaved away for pennies, or observed that life is ridiculous,
will enjoy it," she adds, laughing.
"Fasten your seatbelts, hold on for dear life—get ready to eat your
coffee and drink your pie," says Ayme Butavia, author of Henry's Law, a
novel of Good exacting Evil. "Humorous, thrilling and fast-paced, the
reader will have a difficult time putting this book down, and will feel
anxious knowing as each page is turned that the end of the story is
nearing—you just won't want it to end!"
The Getaway That Got Away is available at Amazon.com—you can get it on
Kindle now, too!—and Barnes and Noble.com
 BOOK
by Vicki Solá
"The Getaway
That Got Away"
What happens when a Latina Alice-in-Wonderland meets
up with an extraterrestrial underdog-gone-bad?
BUY BOOK HERE
Vicki Solá has an overcoming religious fervor about her
Radio work at "Que Viva La Salsa" on . Committed vehemently
to bring you the best of the best because she's the best...
Salsa Disk Jockette to Da' Maxxx, as Diroctor Gneeecy would
say! Yessser, Yuperooney!
Contact VICKI HERE:
vickisola1@aol.com
on FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1539524173
ALSO at the Radio Station
www.wfdu.fm
  
donjibaro@gmail.com
“Live in such a way that no one blames the rest
of
us
nor finds fault with our work.” —(2 Corinthians
6:3)
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