Stephanie Salas
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Stephanie Salas is a Mexican
singer/actress. Stephanie Salas was born into one of the most famous showbusiness families in all of Mexico
. Her mother is actress Sylvia Pasquel; her grandmother is legendary actress Silvia Pinal
; her grandfather was the actor and director Rafael Banquells
; and her aunts are the singers Alejandra Guzmán
and Rocío Banquells
. She has a daughter, Michelle, with singer Luis Miguel
Stephanie made her showbusiness debut singing at age eight alongside her mother on the show Noche a noche hosted by Verónica Castro
. She would later join the cast of Vaselina, the Spanish-language state production of Grease
alongside Timbiriche
. At age 16 she was asked to join the cast of the telenovela
El precio de la fama by producer Ernesto Alonso
.
In 1992 Stephanie starred alongside Bibi Gaytán
, Paulina Rubio
& Eduardo Capetillo
in the popular telenovela Baila Conmigo. It was here that Stephanie sang several songs on the musical oriented youth soap. Her most popular being the song "Tonterias". This led to her signing a contract with Televisa
owned label Melody
.
That same year Stephanie released her debut album entitled Ave María. The title track (written by Lolita De La Colina
) became a huge hit in Mexico and in parts of Latin America
. Produced by Oscar López
, the album went on to achieve gold status in Mexico.
Stephanie's follow-up came in 1994 with the title La raza humana. This album received critical praise, though compared to its predecessor it was not a huge commercial success. However this album did receive the prestigious Palmas de oro which is bestowed to the best in music by Mexican music critics for that year. Of note were the songs Corazón, which saw Stephanie dabble in house music, and the song Nube which was inspired by Nirvana
leader Kurt Cobain
's untimely passing. This album also featured many collaborations with Stephanie's partner Pablo Valero (former member of Santa Sabina
).
For the latter part of the 90s Stephanie took time off to raise her two daughters. While she was pretty dormant on the music front, Stephanie did find time to continue acting. She left Televisa briefly and participated in several telenovelas for competing network TV Azteca
such as El candidato and Agua y aceite.
Salas participated in the Spanish language
version of Eve Ensler
's Vagina Monologues. The Mexican production of this play has been running for over 7 years and has toured all of Mexico and has been performed over 3,500 times. Stephanie's other theatrical productions include : Mame; Mi vida es mi vida; and El protagonista.
After not releasing any music since 1994, Stephanie returned to the music scene in late 2006 with a new project entitled Tuna. Alongside musician Pepe Acosta, they have released their self-titled debut on the Mexican independent label MW Records. The band was previously named Tinta but had to change its name due to legal issues. Stephanie is currently promoting her new release.
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
singer/actress. Stephanie Salas was born into one of the most famous showbusiness families in all of Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. Her mother is actress Sylvia Pasquel; her grandmother is legendary actress Silvia Pinal
Silvia Pinal
Silvia Pinal is a Mexican actress, who had roles in several of Luis Buñuel's movies such as El ángel exterminador and Viridiana...
; her grandfather was the actor and director Rafael Banquells
Rafael Banquells
Rafael Banquells Garafulla was an actor, director and TV producer known in Mexico as Rafael Banquells.- Biography :...
; and her aunts are the singers Alejandra Guzmán
Alejandra Guzmán
Alejandra Gabriela Guzmán Pinal , better known as Alejandra Guzmán, is a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican rock singer and actress. She has had a dedicated fanbase throughout Latin America since the late 1980s, and is known as the "Queen of Rock" in the Hispanic world...
and Rocío Banquells
Rocío Banquells
María del Rocío Banquells Nuñez , is a Mexican pop singer and actress, best known for her work on television, the stage and cinema of Mexico and Latin America. Her mezzo voice is one of the most versatile voices from Mexico...
. She has a daughter, Michelle, with singer Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer. He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México"...
Stephanie made her showbusiness debut singing at age eight alongside her mother on the show Noche a noche hosted by Verónica Castro
Verónica Castro
Verónica Castro is a Mexican actress, singer and television host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michelle Sáinz Castro and the sister of actress Beatriz Castro,and telenovela producer José Alberto Castro....
. She would later join the cast of Vaselina, the Spanish-language state production of Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
alongside Timbiriche
Timbiriche
Timbiriche is the name of a Mexican group that debuted on April 30, 1982, during a broadcast of the news program Hoy Mismo with Alex Gongora and disbanded in 1994....
. At age 16 she was asked to join the cast of the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
El precio de la fama by producer Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Ramirez Alonso was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "Señor Telenovela" because most of his work centered around telenovelas known around the world....
.
In 1992 Stephanie starred alongside Bibi Gaytán
Bibi Gaytán
Bibí Gaytán was born January 27, 1972 in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Three of her four brothers are in show business: musician Chacho Gaytán, actor Alejandro Gaytan, and singer Mano Gaytan...
, Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...
& Eduardo Capetillo
Eduardo Capetillo
Eduardo Capetillo is a Mexican actor and singer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He belongs to the Capetillo family, who have a long tradition of being bullfighters....
in the popular telenovela Baila Conmigo. It was here that Stephanie sang several songs on the musical oriented youth soap. Her most popular being the song "Tonterias". This led to her signing a contract with Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
owned label Melody
Melody
A melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity...
.
That same year Stephanie released her debut album entitled Ave María. The title track (written by Lolita De La Colina
Lolita de la Colina
Lolita De La Colina is a popular singer and songwriter from the 70's based in Mexico. She has written songs for Manoella Torres, Lupita D'Alessio, Sophy, José José, José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma", Daniela Romo, Arianna, Stephanie Salas Raphael, Moncho,Manolo Munoz,Vicky Carr,Trigo limpio,Ana...
) became a huge hit in Mexico and in parts of Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. Produced by Oscar López
Oscar Lopez
Oscar Lopez is a Chilean-Canadian folk and nouveau flamenco guitarist. He has won many awards from the Latino community....
, the album went on to achieve gold status in Mexico.
Stephanie's follow-up came in 1994 with the title La raza humana. This album received critical praise, though compared to its predecessor it was not a huge commercial success. However this album did receive the prestigious Palmas de oro which is bestowed to the best in music by Mexican music critics for that year. Of note were the songs Corazón, which saw Stephanie dabble in house music, and the song Nube which was inspired by Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
leader Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
's untimely passing. This album also featured many collaborations with Stephanie's partner Pablo Valero (former member of Santa Sabina
Santa Sabina
The Basilica of Saint Sabina at the Aventine is a titular minor basilica and mother church of the Roman Catholic Dominican order in Rome, Italy. Santa Sabina lies high on the Aventine Hill, beside the Tiber, close to the headquarters of theKnights of Malta....
).
For the latter part of the 90s Stephanie took time off to raise her two daughters. While she was pretty dormant on the music front, Stephanie did find time to continue acting. She left Televisa briefly and participated in several telenovelas for competing network TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
such as El candidato and Agua y aceite.
Salas participated in the Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
version of Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.- Personal life :...
's Vagina Monologues. The Mexican production of this play has been running for over 7 years and has toured all of Mexico and has been performed over 3,500 times. Stephanie's other theatrical productions include : Mame; Mi vida es mi vida; and El protagonista.
After not releasing any music since 1994, Stephanie returned to the music scene in late 2006 with a new project entitled Tuna. Alongside musician Pepe Acosta, they have released their self-titled debut on the Mexican independent label MW Records. The band was previously named Tinta but had to change its name due to legal issues. Stephanie is currently promoting her new release.
Discography
- 1992: Ave MaríaAve MariaAve Maria may refer to:*Ave Maria , the "Hail Mary", a traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus-Music:...
- 1994: La Raza Humana
- 2006: TunaTunaTuna is a salt water fish from the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. Tuna are fast swimmers, and some species are capable of speeds of . Unlike most fish, which have white flesh, the muscle tissue of tuna ranges from pink to dark red. The red coloration derives from myoglobin, an...
- 2011: Soy Lo Que Soy
Actress
- 2007: Mejor es que Gabriela no se muera .... Eva
- 2004: Avisos de ocasión .... Graciela
- 2002: Agua y aceite .... Leticia
- 2001: Lo que callamos las mujeresLo que callamos las mujeresLo Que Callamos Las Mujeres , is a Mexican anthology television series which deals with the social problems of Mexican Society. The show started airing on the Mexican television network, Azteca 13 as a way to compete with Canal de las Estrellas' Mujer, casos de la vida real...
.... Adalí - 1999: El candidato .... Perla Santoyo
- 1995: Ocho malditos
- 1995: Mujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida real is a television show produced by Hispanic television Televisa for Canal de las Estrellas. The show first aired after the Mexican earthquake of 1985 as a method to assist victims of the natural disaster...
(8 episodes, 1995–2004) - 1992: Modelo antiguo .... Carmen, joven
- 1992: Baila Conmigo .... Clara/Clarissa..
- 1991: Mí querido viejo
- 1991: Jóvenes delincuentes
- 1990: Al filo de la muerte .... Pilar
- 1989: Verano sangriento
- 1987: El precio de la fama .... Sonia