Raymond Arroyo is an internationally known, award-winning broadcaster, producer, Billboard chart-topping vocalist, and New York Times Bestselling author. As a Fox News Contributor and Editorial Advisor to the top-rated, The Ingraham Angle, he has created the popular “Seen and Unseen” and “Friday Follies” segments that have become audience favorites. He regularly files reports for Fox News and is host of the cultural Iheart podcast, "Arroyo Grande with Raymond Arroyo". Previously, Mr. Arroyo served as a CNN contributor and co-anchored top rated events from Europe and the US for the network.
As founding News Director, Managing Editor and Lead Anchor for EWTN News, and has hosted The World Over Live since 1996. The show is seen in more than 350 million homes on six continents each week and heard on more than 500 AM/FM affiliates and a stand alone Sirius channel throughout the US.
Known for his penetrating interviews, Mr. Arroyo has interrogated the leading figures of the day. Highlights include: The first exclusive, sit down interview with Mel Gibson about his film, “The Passion of the Christ”; Mother Teresa of Calcutta; Kevin Costner; multiple Presidents,Supreme Court Justices, a groundbreaking interview with comic legend, Jerry Lewis, and the first and only English language interview with Pope Benedict XVI.
Mr. Arroyo also worked for the Associated Press, The New York Observer and the political columnist team of Evans and Novak.
He is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied with renowned acting instructors: Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Uta Hagen, and Beatrice Straight. He has acted and directed in New York and London.
Mr. Arroyo has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN Headline News, Access Hollywood, Tucker Carlson, Erin Burnett Outfront, and NPR. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
His debut album “Raymond Arroyo: Christmas Merry and Bright” topped the Billboard Holiday and Jazz charts and was the number one Jazz vocal release on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for months. He produced and hosted the PBS, award-winning musical special, “Christmastime in New Orleans” (Verve/Universal), featuring Wendell Pierce, Jim Caviezel and the city’s great chefs. He is producer and host of the Fox Nation special, “An American Christmas Together” with Jose Feliciano, Dion DiMucci and Kellie Pickler, and a Billboard Chart topping PBS Christmas special and CD “The Birth of Christ” hosted by Liam Neeson (Sony Classics).
Five of his adult books, including his biography of Mother Angelica, were all New York Times Bestsellers. His first picture book, “The Spider Who Saved Christmas” was also a New York Times Bestseller. Additionally, he is author of the bestselling Will Wilder series (Random House) and Turnabout Tales (Harper Collins) for young readers. In 2015, Mr. Arroyo founded Storyented.com, a literacy initiative to inspire reading by connecting the world’s great authors and their readers. Mr. Arroyo resides in New Orleans with his wife Rebecca and their three children.
With seven New York Times Bestsellers to his credit, Arroyo, who has written for adults and young audiences, shares the power of stories well told. Why do they matter to our future? And how to tell stories about your cause or business that move the heart and soul.
Arroyo has befriended Popes, saints, and some of the most inspiring people in history. In this uplifting talk, he shares how to find hope--and how to embody it for others.
In this hilarious and inspiring talk, Raymond Arroyo, author of the New York Times Bestseller, "Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of A Nun, Her Nerve, and A Network of Miracles" describes how Rita Rizzo, a handicapped, impoverished, child of divorce became Mother Angelica: founder and CEO of the world's largest religious media empire.
This dramatic talk takes listeners on a journey into the life of one of America's most fascinating and unpredictable CEOs; a woman who transformed a makeshift studio in the backyard of her Birmingham monastery into a global cable network reaching over 100 million households on 6 continents.
During his talk Arroyo extracts the lessons and principals that made Mother Angelica the success that she is. Lee Iacocca, the former CEO of Chrysler has called Mother Angelica: "a woman who may well be the patron saint of CEO's". The founder of Domino's Pizza, Tom Monaghan has described her as "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time", and called Arroyo's presentations of her work "both inspiring and entertaining." Experience what these leaders already know, and take home the practical business wisdom of a woman who has succeeded against the odds.
"Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous." --Mother Angelica