Chita Rivera
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"Chita Rivera" is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theatre. She is the first Hispanic woman and the first Hispanic and Latino Americans/Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

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Is the sum total of all the choreographers who have trained me.

I wasn't looking for work: I was a ballerina.

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever, ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

I give credit for that to all my teachers and all my choreographers, but also to myself – for listening to them.

I looked out and saw all these Rudolph red noses and people crying. It's like what Lisa went through today. I saw it all over her face when I mentioned her father and all that.