Amalia Macías is a Mexican singer and actress of stage, radio, film, and television. In the 1970s and 1980s, she toured Europe singing Mexican songs.

Biography

Macías was born in

Irapuato Irapuato is a Mexican city and municipalities of Mexico, municipality located at the foot of the Arandas Hill (in Spanish Language, Spanish: ''Cerro de Arandas''), in the central region of the Mexican state, state of Guanajuato. It lies between the ...

Guanajuato Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato, is one of the 32 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guanajuato, 46 municipalities and its cap ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. She began her career at the age of 13, winning an amateur contest at Irapuato's Cine Rialto with her interpretation of the song "Dos arbolitos". Her prize consisted of a box of Lerma soda and a pass to watch movies for free for a year. In a troupe that passed through Irapuato, she met the singer Luis Pérez Meza, who advised her to relocate to Mexico City to make her professional debut as a ranchera singer. She had to convince her strict mother to allow her to go. In Mexico City, the famous quartet Los Tecolines helped her get a record deal with

Peerless Records Peerless Records was a record label based in Mexico. Peerless was founded in 1921 in Mexico City by E. Baptista. Early pressings of their gramophone record were made under contract by Gennett Records. By 1933, Peerless was pressing its own rec ...

, where she recorded her first hit single, "Si volviera a nacer", which allowed her to sing on radio and tour the country. She made her television debut in ''Música, risa y estrellas'' with other new singers, such as

Irma Serrano Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro (; 9 December 1933 – 1 March 2023) was a Mexican singer, actress and politician. Famous for her "tantalizing" "untamed spitfire" voice, she was one of the most noted performers of the ranchera and corrido gen ...

, Lucha Moreno, José Juan, and Juan Gallardo. Macías made her film debut with a starring role in ''El tigre de Santa Julia'' (1974) and also sang several songs in the film. In 1982, she decided to finance a tour of Spain to "show what Mexico is". With the money she earned singing in California, she hired Pepe López's Mariachi México 70 as her musical accompaniment. Before she left for Spain, Mexican journalist

Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the co ...

interviewed her and gave her television programs to promote her tour of Spain. She sang in the Spanish cities of

Bilbao Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List o ...

Zaragoza Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...

, Torremolinos,

Marbella Marbella ( , , ) is a city and municipality in southern Spain, belonging to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is part of the Costa del Sol and is the headquarters of the Association of Municipalities of the re ...

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, and

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Discography

* ''Para puras vergüenzas contigo'' * ''Ay! mi gordo'' * ''Amalia Macías'' * ''Amalia Macías''

Filmography

* ''El tigre de Santa Julia'' (1974)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macias, Amalia Singers from Guanajuato Actresses from Guanajuato Ranchera singers Mexican women singers Mexican film actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people)