The Chonga Girls

The Chonga Girls are back as they create a lifestyle around chonga culture

They’re still in their late teens, but actresses/writers Mimi Dávila and Laura Di Lorenzo, aka The Chonga Girls, are highlighting and spearheading a burgeoning Hispanic-American cultural movement.

They’re a YouTube sensation but by no means a fluke. The Chonga Girls are talented and witty writers, actresses and comedians. They have an insider’s fluency with youth and Hispanic-American culture, and they celebrate and poke fun at their surroundings in a way that brings everyone together.

Their perceptiveness and wit are at the heart of Chongalicious’ YouTube success – 4 million views and counting. A parody of “Fergalicious” that lovingly sends up teenage chongas, who are ubiquitous at suburban malls in cities like Miami and New York, Chongalicious turned Mimi and Laura into celebrities in Spring 2007, towards the end of their junior year in high school. In the video, Mimi and Laura play their parts as sexy, sarcastic chongas to the hilt.

Underneath the inspired silliness, Chongalicious dovetails perfectly with Mimi and Laura’s passion – writing and acting. Both were high-achieving students at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High, a performing-arts magnet school. In fact, at the end of her senior year, Mimi received one of the nation’s top honors for high school students – she received the Silver Knight Award for Drama.

Now freshmen in college, Mimi and Laura are continuing to define and expand the chonga brand. A culture that was hiding in plain sight, chonga culture is now in the limelight, with Mimi and Laura conceptualizing and creating the complete chonga lifestyle, from fashion to music to video to the web.

For their next act, The Chonga Girls signed an exclusive management deal with UNO ENTERTAINMENT, a company that draws on a wealth of major-TV network and major-label experience to help its artists excel in the technologically driven entertainment industry of the 2000s.

Guided by their management team The Chonga Girls will be launching a number of new endeavors.

Their plans include unveiling a line of essential beauty products and accessories, created with the chonga in mind, at their soon-to-be launched website, www.thechongagirls.com.

In an upcoming episode of the flagship Univisión talk show Cristina, Mimi and Laura will perform “Chongalicious” live, give an audience member a chonga makeover, and discuss their new projects. Focusing on the chonga lifestyle, the episode features real-life chongas that are being flown in to Univision’s Miami studio from cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Not only will the girls be co-starring in the half-hour television series MESH Academy about the travails of performing-arts high school students, but they’re also creating their own comedy show, tentatively titled The Chonga Girls Chronicles.

The original Chongalicious was homemade, but now they’re heading into the recording and production studio for a new song and video that boast state-of-the-art beats and production. Teaming with top hip-hop musicians and producers, the girls plan to release the new song and video in December.

A lot of interesting things happen in your life when you’re 19, bilingual, and hot. So in addition to their website, The Chonga Girls will contribute their never-boring observations to their own blog, featured in the Celebrity Blog section of UNO’s soon-to-be-launched social network, UNONE.

The Chonga Girls Are Back, Bigger and Badder Than Ever!!