Consuelo "Chelo" Pérez Rubio (born 18 January 1944), is a Mexican singer, songwriter, and actress who was the former vocalist of the

cumbia Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times. Cumbia is said to have com ...

group Chelo y su Conjunto until she launched her solo career in the

ranchera Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional fo ...

genre and began acting in movies.

Biography

Otherwise known as "La Voz Ranchera de México.” Her musical inspiration is

José Alfredo Jiménez José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval (; 19 January 1926 – 23 November 1973) was a Mexican singer-songwriter, whose songs are regarded as the basis of modern Regional Mexican music and Rancheras. Early life Jiménez was born in Dolores Hidalgo, ...

she sang many of his

hits. Born in the colonia of La Experiencia in the city of Zapopan, Jalisco, Chelo is the cousin of Mike Laure, another cumbia recording artist. Chelo and her daughter Yesenia Flores formed a whole era which leads them to sing throughout Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, as well as throughout the United States. They traveled around the world in great artistic caravans with figures such as

Juan Gabriel Alberto Aguilera Valadez (; 7 January 1950 – 28 August 2016), known professionally as Juan Gabriel (), was a Mexican singer-songwriter and actor. Colloquially Honorific nicknames in popular music, nicknamed Juanga () and El Divo de Juárez, ...

Vicente Fernandez Vicente is a Spanish and Portuguese name. Like its French variant, Vincent, it is derived from the Latin name ''Vincentius'' meaning "conquering" (from Latin ''vincere'', "to conquer"). Vicente may refer to: Places * São Vicente, Cape Verde, an ...

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Lucha Villa Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano (born November 30, 1936), more commonly known by her stage name Lucha Villa, is a Mexican singer and actress. Early life Born in Santa Rosalía de Camargo, Chihuahua, Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano was given her pseudonym "Luc ...

, among others. Her most successful hit songs are "Mejor Me Voy", "Que Sacrificio", "Dos Gotas De Agua", "Al Ver Que Te Vas", "Las Cuentas Claras", "Si Ya Te Vas", "Ya Me Voy", and "Volverás Por Mi" (which reached number 1 on Billboard's Mexican Top Ten list). Chelo known as La Voz Tropical de Mexico, La Voz Ranchera, La Incomparable and simply the best female singer Mexico has had. In her career Chelo recorded 5 genres in same year which included Tropical, Norteño, Ranchero, Boleros, Cumbias and recorded with Rondalla. In addition to this great success, Chelo also acted in 13 movies in which her daughter Yesenia Flores was in five of these movies. Chelo and Yesenia venture into the cinema with films such as: Emilio Varela & Camelia la Texana, Contrabando Humano, De Puro Relajo, Operacion Mariguana, and Aborto. Throughout her musical career, Chelo recorded 62 albums with Musart Records. In 2006, at the age of 63, she performed in Stockton, California where she sang a collection of her most famous hits at a concert with more than 30,000 fans in attendance.

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* * 1944 births Living people Mexican women singers Ranchera singers Singers from Jalisco 20th-century Mexican women singers 21st-century Mexican women singers People from Zapopan Women in Latin music {{Singer-songwriter-stub