Natalie Steele is the organization's Executive Director. This is a 501 (c)(3) musical organization aiming to 'enrich and shape the lives of young performers through music education and the performing arts.' As such, it has a Board of Directors, director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. The corps is a program of Crossmen Productions, Inc. The Crossmen have been DCI Top Twelve Finalists twenty-nine (29) times the first time in 1977, the latest in 2019. In the autumn of 2006, the corps relocated to San Antonio and separated from YEA! in late August 2007. As a member of YEA!, the corps was then based in Allentown, PA. In the winter of 1996, on the verge of folding, the corps became one of the programs sponsored by Youth Education in the Arts (YEA!), an organization which also included The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps and the United States Scholastic Band Association. In 1981, they won the VFW Nationals in Philadelphia.

In 1977, the corps won the American Legion Junior D&B National Championship in Denver ('Nationals').

Mimi Lazo as Josefina 'Doña José' Montilla Vda.The Crossmen were competitively successful from the start, winning the Eastern States (drum corps) Circuit Championship from 1975 to 1981.

Ana Karina Manco as Daniela Borges Montilla de Millán.

Will this love be stronger than reason? Sometimes, the past shows up when we least expect it. A ghost from the past rekindles the flame of an irrepressible passion. Among them: Virginia Lugo, a dangerously twisted psychologist who is in love with him, Doña Jose, Aquiles and Daniela herself, who is torn between what her heart tells her and her commitments as a wife and mother. The last part of his plan will be the hardest - because on the road to recovering her love he'll be confronted with strong adversaries. He has done his time and is now back to fulfill his obsession: proving his innocence, getting revenge on the real killer and winning Daniela back. But even now, she is still overcome with a mixture of love and hate for Sebastian - even though she believes he was killed a long time ago during a prison revolt.ĭaniela's life will be dramatically altered by Sebastian's reappearance. For the past 18 years Daniela has been going through the motions, trying to forget the past. The marriage, however, has never been a happy one - she is not in love with Aquiles, who turned out to be an insensitive womanizer. The consequences of that moment were devastating: Sebastian was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and Daniela was left to live with the horror of thinking he was responsible for her father's murder.Īfter the tragedy, Daniela gave in to her mother's wishes and soon married Aquiles Millan. When Daniela, her mother and her sister rushed in, they found Don Roman dead in the floor, with Sebastian standing over him. Suddenly, a shot was heard in the study where they were arguing. Then, one fatal night, Sebastian decided to face Don Roman and let him know once and for all that he would never leave Daniela. Daniela and Sebastian suffered through Don Roman's stern opposition, which was fueled in great part by his wife, Dona Jose, a possessive, commanding woman. But Daniela's father, Don Ramon, had other plans for his daughter: marrying her to Aquiles Millan, a businessman with a brilliant future.

The minute they met, they knew they were meant for each other and came to share the kind of passion neither one would ever feel again. It all began when Daniela and Sebastian were 16 years old. But fate is about to give Daniela the most difficult test she'll ever have to face: Sebastian’s unexpected return. She has now been married for 18 years to a rich businessman and they have a teenage daughter. įor Daniela Borges true love was lost almost twenty years ago, when a violent tragedy separated her from Sebastian Leon. Guillermo Dávila and Ana Karina Manco starred as the main protagonists with Mimí Lazo, Carolina Perpetuo and Carlos Olivier as the antagonists. This telenovela lasted 125 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International. Contra Viento y Marea (English title: Against all odds) is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Leonardo Padrón and produced by Venevisión in 1997.

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