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Diana Raquel (Sainz) Sáinz Wilson
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Born in Madrid, Spain Legal name according to birth records in Spain is: Diana Raquel Sáinz Wilson (both parents last names are used on all legal documents in Spain) I carry dual citizenship as a Spaniard and as an American.
Father, Dr. Alfonso Sáinz Amoros, born March 2, 1943 - died April 17, 2014 was the founder and leader of one of Spain's most historical and popular pop band, Los Pekenikes, earning many gold records starting at the age of 15, serving in the mandatory military in Spain, attending the University, and in 1968 at the age of 25 he became Dr. Alfonso Eduardo Sáinz Amoros, Leader and Founder of Los Pekenikes.
Mother: Pamela Wilson 1944 - A talented artist and designer. Maternal family names include Eden, Waller's, Wilson, Harrison, VanZandt, Calverts, Breece, Corcoran, Shaughnessey, Stuart/Stewart, Eccleston, etc...
Paternal Grandfather was Don Alfonso Sáinz Diaz de Lamadrid from Northern Spain Paternal Grandmother was Josefina Amoros Ramallo from Alicante, Spain
Maternal Grandmother was Janet Eden Waller daughter of Elwood Elccelston Waller and Jane Amelia Eden Maternal grandfather non-biological but very proudly so was Glenn Charles Wilson, matenal biological father was Newman Sallings Harrison
Simple Biography:
Diana Raquel Sainz Wilson, born September 7, 1966 at 9:50am at the Anglo-Saxon Hospital in Madrid, Spain.
Born to Dr. Alfonso Eduardo Sainz Amoros, Madrid, Spain, son of Don Alfonso Eduardo Sainz Diaz de Lamadrid, Torrelavega, Santander, Spain and Josefina Amoros Ramallo, Alicante, Spain.
And her mother Pamela Wilson Honeywell, born in Orlando, Florida, daughter of Glenn and Janet Waller Wilson, a prominent family in Orlando, Florida whose Royal descendants came from England, Ireland and Scotland, with the family last names of Waller of Waller Castle and the Eden family both from the UK (England, Ireland, Scotland). Through her family roots, Diana is related to Royals from both parents coming from most all European countries.
Her father, Dr. Alfonso Eduardo Sainz Amoros born March 2, 1943, died of a rare stomach cancer on April 17, 2014 was a world-renowned OB/GYN Surgeon and the Founder and Leader of one Spain's most historical and popular Instrumental Pop bands, Los Pekenikes, started in 1959 with his brother Lucas Sainz and three students from his school. After his marriage to Pamela, he married Judith Ann Bleakney, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Rex Bleakney, Orlando, Florida and had a fourth child/daughter, Judith Ann Sainz (married: Gregorio)
Her mother Pamela Wilson Honeywell born September 22, 1943 is a prominent figure in her community, extremely artistic, talented in several medias of art as well. She married Dan Hudson Honeywell, Esq. in 1979 in Winter Park, Florida at the Methodist Church. Diana is the second born child and only daughter born between Dr. Alfonso Sainz and Pamela Wilson Honeywell. Dr. Sainz and Mrs. Honeywell had together three Children:
1. Alfonso Eduardo Sainz Wilson - born March 5, 1965 in Madrid, Spain 2. Diana Raquel Sainz Wilson - born September 7, 1966 in Madrid, Spain 3. Christopher Carlos Sainz Wilson - born April 1, 1969 in Madrid, Spain and died tragically in a car accident with his fiancé Lori Leigh Leatherman from Shreveport, Louisiana in Madrid, Spain on December 20, 1996. Chris' memorial service was held on Christmas Eve 1996 and burial on December 27, 1996 in the Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando, Florida next to his maternal grandmother Janet Eden Waller Wilson, in the Wilson Plot.
Child of Alfonso Edwardo Sainz Amoros and Judith Ann Bleakney
4. Judith Ann Sainz Bleakney- born March 22, 1980, Orlando, Florida to Dr. Alfonso Sainz and Judith Ann Bleakney.
Growing up between in Spain and in Florida, she was exposed to many diverse cultures, travel, and experiences that as a child she never realized how fortunate she was, and as an adult wishes she could go back and absorb everything in all over again.
After graduating from high school and attending college, Diana moved to College Park, Maryland where her future husband, Dan Swingle attended college on a full paid scholarship for football.
She met Daniel Brian Swingle at the age of 15 on Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. Diana was on a typical weekend trip with her father and stepmother, Daniel age 16 at the time was on a family trip with his parents Paul William Swingle and Karen Sidaway Swingle both from Medina, Ohio but lived in Mars, Pennsylvania at the time Diana and Daniel met.
Diana married Daniel Brian Swingle on June 28, 1986 at the UMD Memorial Chapel, College Park, Maryland on the campus of The University of Maryland.
In October of 1986 Daniel and Diana moved to Denton, Texas to be closer to Daniel's family so he could recover from a severe back injury from football at the University of Maryland.
Daniel and Diana had three children together. Two daughters and one Son. Their oldest daughter was born in Denton, Texas and in 1986 while Diana was 6 months pregnant with their second child born in 1988, they returned to Orlando, Florida to live.
1. Daughter - Ryan Adair Swingle Sainz (married Lutz) born on November 24, 1986 at the Denton Regional Medical Center. 2. Daughter - Taylor Mahlon Swingle Sainz (married Stewart) born on June 16, 1988, The Orlando Regional Medical Center by Dr. Alberto Bustamante, a good friend of Diana's father. 3. Son - Conner Daniel Swingle Sainz - born March 14, 1991 at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children in Orlando, Florida
Daniel Brian Swingle and Diana Raquel Sainz Wilson divorced after 7 years of Marriage in March of 1993.
Diana has lived in Maryland, Texas, North Carolina, Southern California, Kentucky, and Missouri and proudly obtains dual citizenship and residency in her homeland of Spain. Sometimes feeling like a vagabond with no stable “home” so to speak, she finds this somewhat exciting but very tiresome as she craves for true love, normalcy, if that exist, and a place to call home.
Diana worked in Healthcare administration for Winter Park Hospital and Florida Hospital managing outpatient surgery and OBGYN in Orlando, Florida and was Department Head of OBGYN for Carolina's Physician Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, and worked on the Alzheimer and Dementia floor of the Presbyterian Home, home to independent, assisted living, and full healthcare to Senior Citizens.
After 18 years in Healthcare, in 2007, Diana left healthcare, picked up her lifelong passion, her cameras, and drove across the country to pursue her dreams and passions in Southern California
She is now an International Professional Photographer focusing on travel, vacations, honeymoon destinations, the oddest of the oddest and entertainment. She was awarded "Top 50 photographers to watch" in 2013.
She has had many articles and images published including two books, Signs of Life and Sacred Grounds - The Joshua Tree National Park and is working on three additional books regarding the:
Stonewall Jackson Correctional Facility founded by Mary Jackson in 1906 in Concord, North Carolina;
The Salton Sea, California's largest body of water and one of the United States most contaminated body of water, and
The Crucis Lignum, Santo Toribio. A monastery located in the Valley of Liébana in the Cantabrian Region that holds the largest known existing piece of the cross upon which Jesus was crucified on.
As a humanitarian she promotes and supports many cancer organizations and is the International Corporate Director of Public Relations and Marketing for Water Without Borders, a non-profit organization that implements the means, the development, and the support to countries and areas desperately in need of sustainable clean drinking water and sanitation. 'Saving Lives One Drop At A Time’, focusing on the well-being of children, as they are our future.
Diana's Vision and Mission in her work as an International Photographer is 'Photography With A Cause', Creating the ability to bring REAL LIFE to those who otherwise may never see not only the true beauty of this earth but the reality of the decaying, the sick, poverty, contaminated areas, polluted water and the number of children and adults who die each year due to our own faults. Exposing the truth that so many either choose to ignore or are completely oblivious.
Many proceeds from each of her projects are donated to different cancer foundations and or the areas of interest of the books to help the people in the area. A true humanitarian, grateful for the gifts and talents she was given but believe the world is full of talent that should be exposed as well. A firm believer that music does cure, she continues to be the voice of her father, promoting and producing his last recordings and music never released before to the public.
While she has a great ear for music, and can arrange sound and pitches, she cannot sing or play an instrument unless she is willing to humor someone and give them a great laugh. Like her mother, Pamela, she loves to paint but paints more abstract than the true artist she feels her mother is, as her mother has the ability to paint realism and turn everything she does into a masterpiece. Diana managed to obtain their artistic abilities through her parents but expresses them through photography and other art medias. She continues to photograph the world viewing it as she sees it through her lens. As she states, she may not be famous for her work, but if her purpose is to help someone else achieve their fame, then her purpose on earth has been completed.
Having the ability to share what she sees through the camera lens, capturing memories frame by frame, the beauty or reality of life, taking people to places they have never been, bringing loved ones together, the very essence of innocence on a child's face, or the excitement and happiness one experiences during a victorious event fulfills a passion and a humanitarian side.
“Photography has been my passion in life. My focus varies, allowing me to experience different subjects, types of photography, and gives me the opportunity to meet people of diverse cultures, and professions. My adult children have followed my family’s footsteps and have been an inspiration to much of what I do and are very artistic themselves. Their encouragement to pursue my dream has given me the freedom to put my heart in soul into a passion I love.”
In 2010 after her bold move to California not knowing a thing about the state she became the Production Manager and Director of Media and Public Relations for the Independent Film 'The Encore of Tony Duran' staring Elliott Gould, Gene Pietragallo, William Katt, Nikki Ziering and Cody Kasch.
In 2013 after 35 years, Diana reunited Alfonso Sáinz and Tim Coons (Producer of the Backstreet Boys and President of Cheiron Music Group) for a documentary she started to make on her father's life as leader of one of Spain's most famous pop and rock groups, Los Pekenikes, the 1960's and 1970's not knowing that in less than a year from the meeting, she would lose her father to the very rare cancer that he was one in five percent to survive in 1984 when she was 18 years old.
From this meeting, a fire was lit, and Alfonso was once again back in the recording studios working with Tim Coons on 'Tu Eres La Mujer' as well as 6 additional songs to be released one day soon, she prays, as this was her last and final promise to her father.
Dr. Sainz died on April 17th, 2014, he recorded the last song for his final album the week before his surgery. Her goal now, as she promised him, is to take it as far as she can go! “My father is now 'Cerca de las Estrellas', I miss him terribly!"
As of 2018 Diana continues to work on a documentary and the final release of her father's last CD ever recorded. Alfonso Sáinz, leader of one of Spain's most influential bands of the 60's and 70's, Los Pekenikes. -
Other interest: photography, painting, sewing, crafts, gardening, HER 5 BEAUTIFUL GRANDCHILDREN, Riley, Lauren, Tyler, Elliott, and Ellie.
'Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.' ~ Twyla Tharp You don't take a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. ~ Ansel Adams
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