Rocsi
| Rocsi Diaz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Raquel Roxanne Diaz November 17, 1983 Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| Other names | Lady of 106, Roczilla |
| Occupation | radio personality, television personality, |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Website | rocsidiaz |
Raquel Roxanne "Rocsi" Diaz (born 17 November 1983), also known as just Rocsi, is a Honduran-born, American television personality and model. She is best known as the co-host on the BET program 106 & Park from 2006-2012. She was a correspondent on Entertainment Tonight during 2012-2014, where she was billed as "Rocsi Diaz".
Diaz was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras but moved with her family to New Orleans, Louisiana. She is of Honduran and Chilean descent. Rocsi announced on 106 & Park on July 30, 2009, that she suffered from anorexia during her years in middle school and high school due to her love for cheerleading. She graduated from West Jefferson High School in Harvey, Louisiana. She graduated from Nicholls State University.
After growing up in New Orleans, she launched her career in Dallas, Texas, as a host on the city’s premier urban radio station, 97.9 The Beat. Here, Rocsi cultivated a unique, street-smart style that caught the attention of Boston’s Hot 97.7, where she later became a DJ. In 2004, she moved to Chicago where she was hired as midday-hour DJ at radio station Power 92 WPWX-FM, and was known as "The Midday Mami".
Diaz appeared on MTV's Fear as a contestant in 2000.
BET personalities AJ Calloway and Free left the network on July 28, 2005. They were replaced by Big Tigger and Julissa Bermudez. They left and Rocsi on July 6, 2006 won the role of co-host of BET’s 106 & Park along with Terrence J. The show can be seen in over 85 million homes in U.S, United Kingdom, Canada, Africa, Caribbean, and Japan. For the debut in Japan, she and co-host Terrence J taped footage there, and appeared on MTV Video Music Awards Japan. In 2007, Rocsi starred as a BET News correspondent in Def Jam: Icon, but only appears in cutscenes on TV and not in fighting mode
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