Inspiring Women : November 2020

that job that I’d had as a real estate saleswoman! I
had bought a flat that I was able to sell soon after,
and I used the profit from the sale to produce my
first album in 2014. From then on, my whole life
changed completely.
As you know, life takes you down paths you cannot
imagine. Today I am a Mexican singer living in
Heidelberg, and that is something I could never
have imagined growing up. But how did it happen?
Well a few years ago I went to a jazz concert in
Mexico City. My friend, the trumpeter Marc Osterer,
who recorded both my albums with me and now
plays in the band Parov Stelar, was performing his
new album. During the last song, some couples got
on stage and started dancing. I loved the style of
their dancing, and the following week my friend
invited me to a place where that style was danced. I
signed up for classes straight away and started to
Performing
dance Lindy Hop. A year later I met my husband
there, who lived in Germany. We were friends for several years until we fell in love and got married
and now I live with him in the beautiful city of Heidelberg!
These are difficult times for everyone because
of COVID-19, and I arrived in this new country
in February 2020 (just when the global health
crisis was beginning). Unfortunately, singing
and dancing are activities that are classified as
risky, so there is not much movement. While
things are developing I have been planning a
third album. I enjoy my new life, which
surprises me at every step. I’m learning
German and have built a professional audio
booth in my house, from which I have just
recorded new songs to release soon. I can
also use the booth for work as a narrator or
voice-over artist. What more can I ask for?
Getting Involved in the Arts
I don't remember ever wanting to be anything other than an actor or singer, to tell you the truth.
Since I was a child, I have always been excited about playing different characters, and "embodying
different lives", and all the time I have sung. I have always loved music, theater, cinema, opera,
painting, dance – in short, the arts in general.
I learned to act, to analyze texts in order to interpret them, to discover the characters that live
wrapped in the words, from my mentor and teacher, the late Mexican theater director and
playwright Héctor Mendoza. Thanks to him, I learned to observe without judging. I learned that just
one word can have dozens of meanings and reveal to us the whole life of someone and the
relationship they have with their interlocutor. For me, singing is the same as acting: each song is a
different character and can tell more than one story (depending on how it is sung and with what kind
of music it is played).
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