Carlito's Way: Rise to Power stars Jay Hernandez as Carlito Brigante, and chronicles Brigante's rise as a heroin drug czar in 1960s Harlem, New York. The film also features Mario Van Peebles, Michael Joseph Kelly, Luis Guzmán, Jaclyn DeSantis, Sean Combs, Burt Young, and Domenick Lombardozzi. Critically panned, the film nevertheless received Torres's as an accurate adaptation of the first half of his novel. The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a New York prison — Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly), and Carlito (Hernandez) — controlling their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, they all look to control the drug
Carlito Olivero Carlito Olivero Carlos Emmanuel Olivero, better known as Carlito Olivero, is an American singer and actor of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent. From 2007–09, he was part of the Latin boy band Menudo after taking part in MTV's "Making Menudo". Moving to Los Angeles in 2009, he appeared in various singing and acting events and in 2012 appeared in the film "We the Party" directed by Mario Van Peebles. In 2013, he auditioned for season 3 of the American singing competition series "The X Factor" and finished 3rd in the competition. He was mentored by Paulina Rubio. Olivero was born