Raised in Hermosillo, Sonora, she entered the public eye as the 1957 “Princess of the Carnival” before moving into modeling and, a few years later, acting. Launching her screen career in 1960, she later recorded the 1969 album Para Mi Departamento and achieved worldwide recognition as Elita in Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), a film that also featured a song she composed…
