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Top 10 Facts about Mexican Singer Thalia

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda was born on 26 August 1971. She is also known mononymously as Thalía. She is a Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as the “Queen of Latin Pop”, she is considered one of the most successful and influential Mexican artists.

Having sold around 25 million records worldwide, she is one of the all-time best-selling Latin music artists. Aside from her native Spanish, Thalía has also sung in English, French, Portuguese and Tagalog. In the article are the top 10 facts about Mexican Singer Thalia.

1. She is the Queen of telenovelas

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As an actress, Thalía starred in a variety of successful telenovelas that aired in over 180 countries with an estimated audience of 2 billion people according to UNICEF. This, therefore, led to her being referred to as the “Queen of telenovelas” by the mass media.

The global impact of her novels helped her to popularize her music in non-Spanish-speaking territories and markets in Europe and Asia. The Mexican media company Televisa has named her the best-paid telenovela actress in history, while Billboard names her the most widely recognized Spanish-speaking soap star in the world.

2. Ocean Drive recognized her as the biggest star Mexico has exported in the last decades

She was included in Billboard’s Greatest Latin Artists of All Time in 2020 and in People En Español’s The 100 most iconic Hispanic entertainers of all time in 2008. On 5 December 2013, she was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a recognition for her achievements in the music industry.

3. Thalia is also a successful businesswoman

Thalia is a woman of many professions. She adjusts accordingly n order to create income as much as she has the ability. As a businesswoman, Thalía enjoyed success with a fashion brand. This was after she signed a deal with Macy’s, an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy.

4. Laura Zapata is Thalia’s half-sister!

Laura Zapata is a Mexican support telenovela actress, singer, and dancer. She has acted in Televisa productions. Zapata is also a singer and dancer. Laura and Thalía were the first family members to gain international fame by acting and singing.

In Maria Mercedes, one of Thalía’s first soap operas, Laura played a villain opposite her sister. In the world of telenovelas, she is as well known for her antagonist roles.

5. Thalia is married to multi-millionaire Tommy Mottola

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Thomas Daniel Mottola is an American music executive, producer and author. Mottola is currently the Chairman of Mottola Media Group and was previously the Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columbia label, for nearly 15 years.

Thalía married music executive Tommy Mottola on 2 December 2000. The couple has two children, a daughter born in October 2007, and a son born in June 2011.

6. She contracted Lyme disease in 2008

Thalía was affected by Lyme disease, a disease commonly transmitted by ticks. The illness prevented her from promoting her album Lunada, while it functioned as a motivation for her to have a different perspective towards life.

Thalía about her illness stated in her autobiography that she would sweat profusely, soaking her pyjamas, the sheets and even the mattress; everything hurt… the hypersensitivity of her skin was so severe that sometimes she couldn’t even handle the bed sheets.

7. She said that it was motivation and influence that helped her become successful

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Thalia said that her major personal influence was her mother, who was a motivating manager for Thalia from the very beginning of her career until 2000.

Her artistic influences came from people such as Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion, Sade, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, The Doors, Kylie Minogue, Marilyn Monroe and Madonna.

Thalia’s first idol, according to her, was athlete Nadia Comăneci. She has even stated that her record-breaking performance was a huge motivation for her to follow a career in entertainment.

8. Thalía has been also described as an influential Latin woman

People en Español included her in their book Legends: the 100 most iconic Hispanic entertainers of all time in 2008. The same magazine included her in their “The 25 Most Influential Latin Women” and Terra Networks named her one of the most “powerful and iconic women in music” in 2011.

Leila Cobo from Billboard wrote that she had carved out one of the most successful global Latin careers in memory. Producer Emilio Estefan called her “Mexico’s diva of divas” and stated that Thalía was one of the few female artists in the Latino market who has legions of fans throughout Latin America, including Brazil.

 9. Thalía is considered a gay icon

According to Infobae, an online newspaper established in Argentina, many of her fans recognized her as the “Latin queen of the gay community”. The same publication also stated that Thalía is one of the most “emulated pop singers by transvestite shows in gay nightclubs”.

Andrés del Real from La Tercera felt she is an icon for the sexual minority, and professor Ramón García in Chicano Representation and the Strategies of Modernism (1997) wrote that Thalía is “the dream identity of many drag queens.

10. Thalia is a Philanthropist and an activist

Thalía has participated in various humanitarian campaigns. Since 2004, she has been an official celebrity ambassador and volunteer of March of Dimes, to support national fundraising and awareness campaigns.

Since 2016 she is a UNICEF Mexico Ambassador. Thalía also became a member of “The ALAS Foundation”, which is a non-profit organization that strives to launch a new social movement that will generate a collective commitment to comprehensive Early Childhood Development programs for children in Latin America.