Myraida Chaves

Myraida Chaves Carbia (March 12, 1960 – April 22, 2021) was a Puerto Rican show host, actress and television and theater producer. Chaves was the daughter of the well-known Puerto Rican actress, Awilda Carbia.

Early life Chaves was the daughter of José R. Chaves and of Awilda Carbia, a Puerto Rican television actress. As a little girl, she attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro in the San Juan area of Miramar (a subdivision of the San Juan suburb of Santurce).

During the early 1970s, at the age of ten, Chaves was given an opportunity to appear on Puerto Rican television for the first time, when she joined her mom in a show named La Hora de la Aventura (Time for Adventure), where she played her mom's character's (Estrella Galaxia) daughter, Estrellita. In that show, she also shared credits with Cary Oliver.

Chaves soon began acting in school and theater plays, such as Solo en Oscuridad (Only When Obscure), where she worked alongside the well-known Puerto Rican rock singer Orvil Miller, among others.

Some 30 years before, Chaves had suffered from cervical cancer but at that time, she had recovered.

Personal life Unable to conceive her own children due to the cancer in her youth, Chaves had an adoptive daughter named Myriana Ortiz, who was born in 1994.

Chaves was divorced.