Editing Ednita Nazario (section)

===Childhood sensation===
Nazario was born in [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]],<ref name="prpop">{{cite web|url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/e_bios/ednita_nazario.shtml|title=Ednita Nazario|website=Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular|date=June 25, 2014|first=Javier|last=Santiago|language=es|access-date=June 5, 2011|archive-date=May 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005204/http://www.prpop.org/biografias/e_bios/ednita_nazario.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> to Domingo Nazario and Gudelia Figueroa.  She has two older brothers (Tito and Alberto) and a younger brother (Frank, a.k.a. Pancho). Ednita showed inclinations to music even when small. A family anecdote tells that when she was 2 and shopping with her mother, she wandered away, and her mother found her singing on top of boxes to an enthusiastic crowd of laughing, clapping shoppers.

When she was six, she attended a baseball game in Ponce with her brothers. While she was playing with her brother's glove, the batter hit the ball toward her. She held the glove up for protection, and the ball landed squarely in it. The crowd went wild, including [[Alfred D. Herger]], one of Puerto Rico's top record producers, who was seated near the family. When he asked her if she wanted to be a baseball player, she replied ''"No, I'm going to be a singer."''  He asked her to sing something for him, and she responded with an impressive rendition of a local [[Salsa music|salsa]] hit that left both the producer and the applauding crowd astonished. Two months later, Herger visited the Nazario household with a recording contract. After initial reluctance, the family signed the contract.<ref>{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=ednita nazario|bio=true}}|title=Ednita Nazario Biography|website=Billboard.com}}</ref>

At 6, Ednita recorded her first song: "Mi Amor Lolipop," a Spanish version of ''"My Boy Lollipop"''. In 1966, at age 11, Nazario made her radio debut.<ref name="prpop"/>