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Radio host

Raquel Roxanne "Rocsi" Diaz, also known as just Rocsi, is an Honduran-born, American television personality and model.

Background

Diaz was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras but moved with her family to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Education

She graduated from West Jefferson High School in Harvey, Louisiana. She graduated from Nicholls State University.

Career

She is best known as the co-host on the Black Entertainment Television program 106 & Park from 2006-2012. She was a correspondent on Entertainment Tonight during 2012-2014, where she was billed as "Rocsi Diaz". She is 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.

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".

Television.

Achievements

  • They left and Rocsi on July 6, 2006 won the role of co-host of Black Entertainment Television’s 106 & Park along with Terrence J. The show can be seen in over 85 million homes in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Africa, Caribbean, and Japan. Foreign the debut in Japan, she and co-host Terrence J taped footage there, and appeared on Music Television Video Music Awards Japan. In June 2014 Diaz was awarded a Daytime Emmy award as part of the cast for Outstanding Entertainment News Program. She received the Ruben Salazar Award for Communications.