Myraida Chaves Carbia (March 12, 1960 – April 22, 2021) was a Puerto Rican show host, actress and television and theater producer.
During the early 1970s, at the tender age of ten, Chaves was given an opportunity to appear on Puerto Rican television for the first time, when she substituted her mom in a canal 4 show named La Hora de la Aventura (Time for Adventure), where she played her mom's character's (Estrella Galaxia) daughter, Estrellita.
[4] Chaves soon began acting in school and theater plays, one of the better known ones where she participated was Solo en Oscuridad (Only When Obscure) where she worked alongside the well-known Puerto Rican rock singer Orvil Miller, among others.
[3] Chaves tried her luck as a theatrical actress during 1984, participating in 40 Quilates (40 Carats), where she acted along with her mom and with Benito Mateo (who co-starred with her mom in a show named En Casa de Juanma y Wiwi), José Reymundi and Daniel Lugo, all of them experienced television actors.
[3] She also became a theatrical producer; one of her notable productions was named Desconcertados (Disconcerted, a play on the Spanish word for musical concerts, Concierto), in which her mom participated along with other well known Puerto Rican entertainers.
[3] During 2017, Chaves was named director of the Centro de Bellas Artes Angel O. Berrios in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
She received medical treatment both at Pavia and HIMA hospitals (the former in San Juan, the latter in Caguas), before passing away on April 22, 2021.
[7] Unable to conceive her own children due to the cancer affliction she had when young, Chaves had an adoptive daughter named Myriana Ortiz, who was born in 1994.