Puerto Rican Izis Rosario is a Captain in the United States Army, where she also works as a nurse. His workwear and military uniform disappear overnight to make way for a life on stage. She was baptized and is known in the entertainment world as Izis, the sauce nurse.
A legacy which, as al voice of America, comes from his Puerto Rican blood. Some clan members addicted to weapons and others addicted to music. For now, this singer, soldier, and nurse is stationed at FT Belvoir Community Hospital in Northern Virginia’s Washington region.
The military comes from her father, who spent his career in the military, that family life of travel has taken her to various destinations around the world, including Germany and several cities in the United States, but in the ‘Island of Charm’ he has found what “moves his soul”: music.
What started out as entertainment was taking shape. When she got married 15 years ago, her husband encouraged her to try the tables. She is an artist maker and also a military man, a complete complement to understanding this multitalented artist now.
“Music is in my veins thanks to my parents, uncles and cousins who are exceptional at this, I carry the music inside and it is salsa more than anything that moves me,” says this singer and songwriter.
Shortly after residing in the Washington area, he says he built an audience with various shows, some solo, some in trios and with a live orchestra for the biggest salsa concerts.
I carry the music inside and it’s the salsa more than anything else that moves me”
To say goodbye to the year and receive 2023, she already has the night reserved to sing at an event in a renowned center of the American capital, so the new year will find her in one of the places where she is more than comfortable: the stage. Add in interview with VOA extension that his multiple careers complement each other “because there is always something more”, so much so that he has demonstrated the power music has in his patients who are suffering and taking medication.
“As a nurse I realized that patients needed something more (…) I had patients who needed something beyond what pills are, I’ve had several cases where I sang to patients and saw those changes in their faces,” she explains.
Although he is not part of the armed force in his day-to-day military career, this captain, who will be promoted to major next June, says that the training and physical rehearsals as well as updating military tactics are constant. .
Hence, to do his day job in his career, he gets up very early to exercise and keep fit which also suits the demands of stage and hospital life.
“Thank God I also did very well in military life”, and that career to which we owe it – he adds – is the one that makes her go from one place to another on missions, for which she is willing to do so when given an order.
“Every day they can tell me: ‘Rosario, you have to go, we are going to war, or we are going to serve another country and I have to be ready for all those situations,'” she says.
A voice of strength for women
Izis Rosario says that being in salsa in “an environment dominated mainly by men”, his voice is heard as a woman and at the same time he leaves a message for his group.
Even moving into the music in two languages is another plus as “a female voice, but also sings, not just in Spanish,” he says.
But above all “I can be that voice for women, I heard that female voice was needed to talk about independent, strong women who break our hearts, but then say it’s up to me to move on”.
In addition to her multifaceted life, she also says that she seeks to make a diverse show for different audiences, and while it is salsa that inspires her to take to the stage, she also does presentations with other genres and formats to bring joy to various audiences as she does in these holidays.
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