Thalía

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Thalía
Thalia in November 2006
Thalia in November 2006
Background information
Birth name Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda
Born August 26, 1972 (1972-08-26) (age 35)
Origin Mexico City, Mexico
Genre(s) Latin Pop, Pop Rock, Dance-Pop
Years active 1980-present
Label(s) Fonovisa Records (1990-1993)
EMI (1994-present)
Website Thalía.com

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (born 26 August 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico), commonly known as Thalía, is an internationally successful Mexican singer and actress with multi Latin Grammy and Latin Billboard nominations. In Latin America, she is regarded as the “Queen of Telenovelas” because her telenovelas were highly successful even in non Latin American countries and watched by almost a billion people around the world. She has won numerous awards in Mexico as a singer and actress from different important award giving bodies. Aside from being a successful singer and actress, she is also a businesswoman, fashion designer, record producer and writer. Her husband is the American music executive Tommy Mottola. As a solo artist, Thalía has sold over 18 million albums worldwide.[1]

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[edit] Biography

Thalía is the daughter of Ernesto Sodi Pallares; a scientist, doctor of pathology, criminologist and writer, and Yolanda Miranda and Mange, a painter and was Thalía’s manager from 1980 to 1999. She has four sisters, Laura a theater, TV and movie actress, and singer, Federica, an anthropologist, Gabriela, a historian, and Ernestina, a doctor of Literature and the Arts and a writer. Thalía is of Spanish ancestry. Her niece Camila Sodi is also an actress and is now pregnant with her child with boyfriend, popular Mexican actor, Diego Luna.

Mexican superstar Thalía became involved in show business at the tender age of nine after joining a local group called Pac Man which was renamed Din Din, a children-oriented singing group with which they recorded their debut album, entitled Alegrias Musicales, in 1981. Two years later, Ariadna Thalía Sodi and Miarnda successfully participated in the local festival Juguemos A Cantar, singing a pop tune called "Moderna La Chica Del Rock," and soon played a role in the musical play Vaselina (the Latin version of Grease). As a vocalist she is considered a mezzo-soprano. In 1984 she was cast in the teenage version of the stage production Grease, in which she played the lead role of Sandy. In 1986 she replaced one of the original female vocalists of Timbiriche, Sasha Sokol. That same year she was cast in her first soap opera, Pobre Señorita Limantour. In 1986, she starred in the Mexican telenovela Quinceañera. Then, she starred in her next soap opera entitled “Luz y Sombra”in 1989. Then, she went to Los Angeles, California to prepare for a solo career.

Her solo career began in 1990 with the release of a self-titled album produced by Alfredo Díaz Ordaz. Mundo de Cristal followed in 1991, and Love in 1992. Emilio Estefan, Jr. produced En Extasis in 1995 before Thalía released the successful Amor a la Mexicana in 1997 and Arrasando in 2000, which garnered a Latin Grammy award for best engineered album. In 2002, the Mexican singer/actress teamed up with producers Cory Rooney and Steve Morales to start working on her first crossover songs for her English debut, "Thalía" and released in 2003. Her first English album was a mild success in America but became a huge success in Japan and Brazil.

Thalía's star on Miami's Calle Ocho.
Thalía's star on Miami's Calle Ocho.

In 2000, she starred in the independent film, Mambo Café, a modest Hollywood production in which she played a young Puerto Rican girl, alongside Danny Aiello, Paul Rodriguez, and Rosanna de Soto. Later that year, on December 2, 2000, Thalía married the former president of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York in a three-million dollar ceremony and reception. They currently live in New York City.

Thalía has also worked as a record producer, composer, TV and radio host, fashion designer, magazine editor, and model. Thalía has been a guest on such television programs as Entertainment Tonight, El Show de Cristina, Good Morning America, Hard Copy, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and 20/20.

In 2007, Thalía, who became a US citizen in January 2006, joined the ABC Network in order to start the radio program "The Conexión Thalía Radio Show," where she talks about music, fashion, news and political issues.[2][3]

On June 12, 2007, according to news released on the website of Hello! magazine, in an exclusive interview for the Mexican edition of ¡Hola!, she announced that she was pregnant. On October 7, 2007, Thalía and Tommy Mottola welcomed their first child together, a girl named Sabrina Sakaë.[4]

Afterwards, she was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People en People en Español 2008.[5]

In May 2008, Thalía's new single Ten paciencia from her brand new album, Lunada, which will be released in June 24, was premiered on the internet.

[edit] Discography

Main article: Thalía discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] Compilations

[edit] Timbiriche discography

  • 1987: Timbiriche VII(1)
  • 1988: Timbiriche VIII-IX(1)
  • 1989: Los clásicos de Timbiriche(1)

[edit] Soundtracks

[edit] DVD's

  • 2000: Mambo Café
  • 2004: Greatest Hits
  • 2005: Rosalinda
  • 2006: Legado Musical
  • 2008: María la del Barrio
  • 2008: MariMar
  • 1 Only in these albums Thalía was featured.

[edit] Filmography

  • 1999: Mambo Café

[edit] Telenovelas


[edit] Fan club

Thalía's first official fan club, Mundo de Cristal (MDC), was named after her song and record of the same title.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Thalía strikes Gold and Platinum in Miami! Mundo de Cristal - The Official Fan Club. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
  2. ^ The Conexión Thalía Radio Show ABC Radio. Retrieved on 2007-04-14.
  3. ^ The Conexión Thalía Radio Show Official Press Release ABC Radio. Retrieved on 2007-04-14.
  4. ^ Hello magazine
  5. ^ Los 50 más bellos – People en Español

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