He does not have a prodigious voice. Neither does a sculptural body. And worse still: she's always shown her arrogant diva pose and sour humor. But Paulina Rubio , " the golden girl " of " 24 carats " - two self-imposed nicknames - has managed to win her status as a pop star . One of the largest in Mexico and, to be sure, Latin America.
The figures speak for themselves: it has sold more than fifteen million albums as a soloist, has almost 12 million followers in the social network Twitter and another 940 thousand in Instagram, has been included by Forbes Mexico in the list of Latin women Most influential, and has a collection of statuettes, no doubt, also golden, including seven Latin Billboard , seven Eres , six Lo Nuestro , three ACE , three Youth , three MTV Latin America , and two Seagulls in the Festival of Viña del Mar
And all thanks to her overwhelming personality, her thirst for recognition, her blond hair and her mole close to her lips, her seductive attitude, her songs chiclosas and claims of the feminine (and sometimes even the feminist), her seriousness to offer Good shows and, above all, his great knowledge of the business. " I am a company that writes and sings songs, " she said.
It carries it in the genes. His great-grandmother was a pianist. His mezzo-soprano grandmother. And his mother, the Mexican actress Susana Dosamantes , galana or villain of two dozen telenovelas and at least 26 cinematographic productions, who saw him come sooner rather than later. " When the journalists came to interview me, and while I was putting on makeup, she gave them a press conference, and told them that I was better than I: 'I sing, I dance and acted better than my mom ,' she said about Paulina in a opportunity.
So the caste comes to the greyhound, who grew up in the halls of Televisa and on the sets, in Mexico or Madrid; And was educated at the age of four in the Arts Education Center (CEA) classes so that her mother could take oxygen. And regardless of whether his father, lawyer Enrique Rubio González , died in 2011, try to prevent it at all costs. Obviously with a star at home was more than enough.
Only eleven were already wearing phosphorescent shirts, tight pants, scarves on the head, climbed the stage, traveled through Latin America, and even gave interviews. It was one of the mini stars of the group Timbiriche , in which it remained during ten years and ten discs. He was already upsetting hormones. And the one who had braces on her teeth, was as skinny as a toothpick, had already earned fame as a " rebellious and unbearable " girl, and had companions to the beautiful Thalia , Sasha Sokol and Bibi Gaitan , who left the ship long before she.
It was with his mother that he decided to give up Timbiriche and finance the first solo album: The Golden Girl (EMI), a smash hit of three million copies. She was followed by three others: 24 kilos in 1994, Tiempo en oro in 1995 and Planeta Paulina in 1996), in which she exploded her image of a troubled and rebellious twenties with disheveled hair, which also reinforced her participation in telenovelas: Passion and Power in 1988, Dance with me in 1992 - by the way, with Eduardo Capetillo in the leading role - and poor rich girl in 1995.
Only Paulina wanted more, much more. " I did not support any of my ideas and I was hungry for development. I wanted to make the leap ... I was put in a drawer and they forgot about me, " he said. Explained in an interview in the newspaper El País of Spain.
So he disappeared. Rather went to London, where he studied, and where it was rediscovered by the public thanks to a television program of low ralea: Long live the summer . But that served for the executives of the Universal label to look at it.
The hair is cut. He wears heels. She dresses as a queen, as in the song of Gloria Trevi (now uses Louboutin and Dior ) and conquers a new public: the homosexual, who quickly turns her into a new icon and interpreter of themes like " The Last Goodbye " " I am not that woman " and " Live the summer ", all included in the album Paulina , undoubtedly her biggest commercial success, followed by Border girl , in which she sings in English; Pau-Latina in 2004; Love, light and sound in 2007; Great city pop in 2009; And Brava in 2012.
And in almost everyone is the girl who suffers for the love lost but who gets up quickly, and does not crawl on the floor, no sir. " Now I've made the decisions about my career, I've written my themes, I've chosen the film's director, I've controlled the production, the concept, the artistic creation and the marketing, I'm the executive producer, and I have a direct relationship with my fans through Of the Web without anyone getting between us, "he said.
Only, it must be said, motherhood (she has two children), fights with her first husband, Spanish businessman Nicolás Vallejo-Nagera , with whom he married in 2007 and who gets divorced in 2012; And his second marriage to Gerardo Bazua , whom he met in the program La voz ... Mexico , have ended by separating her from the stage. Not that of the zenith, where Paulina , with or without mane, continues reigning like a diva bathed in gold.
