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Carmen M. Pursifull
Carmen M. Pursifull (born September 1, 1930) is a former New York City Latin dance and Latin American music figure of the 1950s, and since 1970 in Illinois, is an English-language free verse poet who was a top ten finalist nominee for Poet Laureate of that state in 2003.〔''Probing the Depths of Mind and Matter,'' Carmen M. Pursifull, (Champaign, Illinois: Hawk Productions, 2007) ISBN 978-1-881900-08-5, pp. 230-232.〕 Since late 2009 she has been a local public television personality in the Champaign-Urbana area.〔https://www.facebook.com/pages/Urbana-IL/Urbana-Public-Television/39160342157?ref=mf〕
==Early life and career==
Born Carmen Maria Padilla in New York City, she was the youngest of five children to a Puerto Rico-born father and his Army bride from Barcelona, Spain.〔''Probing the Depths, supra,'' at 230.〕 She grew up in New York City 〔''Id.''〕 where she left high school after her first marriage in 1946, ending her formal education.
Thereafter she was a member of a New York City interpretive dance troupe,〔''Id.,'' p. 7, Introduction by Steven Kappes.〕 and in 1950 at age twenty she was recruited by Frank "Killer Joe" Piro to partner with him teaching Cha-Cha-Cha and Mambo at the Palladium Ballroom at 53rd St. and Broadway in Manhattan.〔''Id.,'' pp. 230-231, and p. 7 ''supra.''〕 This thrust her into the center of the Latin dance craze of the time.〔''See, Wikipedia: Palladium Ballroom.〕 She became a featured vocalist with Latin American bands in New York City, belonged to American Federation of Musicians Local 802 (Greater New York City),〔''Probing the Depths of Mind and Matter, supra,'' pp. 230-231 and p. 7.〕 toured widely in the United States, and had extended engagements in the Caribbean including the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico with Miguelito Valdés and His Orchestra in 1953 and with Ray Wallis and His Calypso Band at the Virgin Isles Hotel in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1954.〔''Id.''〕
In 1959 she ceased touring in order to be with her children, and began a sixteen-year career of tending and managing bars in Manhattan. In 1962 she married her fourth husband, John Pursifull, a career non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy.〔''Id.,'' p. 231 and p. 7.〕
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