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Maridueña’s younger sister Oshún Ramirez was a voice actor on Disney’s “Future-Worm!,” his mother, Carmelita Ramirez-Sanchez, leads the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, and his father, Omar G. Ramirez, is a Chicano artist.

Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, for example, blended with the golden deity, Oshun.

A perverted offering to the goddess Oshun - a deity typically associated with water and fertility.

“You come here, you talk to the water, you connect with Oshun,” Ms. Pryor said, referring to a goddess that is associated with water in her religion.

At 17, she joined her first nonprofit board, the North Baton Rouge Blue Ribbon Commission, which works for improved health care and quality of life, and helped create the first African American Mardi Gras parade in north Baton Rouge, the Krewe of Oshun.