1. Guillermina Jimenez Chabolla known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer and actress.
43 Facts About Flor Silvestre
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Flor Silvestre was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music, and was a star of classic Mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
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Flor Silvestre recorded more than 300 songs for three labels: Columbia, RCA Victor, and Musart.
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Flor Silvestre participated in her husband Antonio Aguilar's musical rodeo shows.
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Flor Silvestre appeared in more than seventy films between 1950 and 1990.
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Flor Silvestre made her acting debut in the film Primero soy mexicano, directed by and co-starring Joaquin Pardave.
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Flor Silvestre played opposite famous comedians, such as Cantinflas in El bolero de Raquel.
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Flor Silvestre was the star of the comic book La Llanera Vengadora.
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Flor Silvestre was born Guillermina Jimenez Chabolla on 16 August 1930 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Flor Silvestre was the third child and second daughter of Jesus Jimenez Cervantes, a butcher, and Maria de Jesus Chabolla Pena.
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Flor Silvestre's father owned and ran a meat shop in Salamanca.
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Flor Silvestre loved the mariachi music of famous Mexican singers Jorge Negrete and Lucha Reyes, and sang songs that belonged to the pasodoble, tango, and bolero genres, which were popular in Mexico in the late 1930s.
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Flor Silvestre's performance was a great success and she received an ovation from the audience.
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Blancas then chose the title of Dolores del Rio's 1943 drama film as the young singer's new stage name, and Guillermina Jimenez became Flor Silvestre, which means "wild flower".
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Under her new stage name, Flor Silvestre won first place in an amateur contest sponsored by Mexico's most popular radio station, XEW, known as "the voice of Latin America from Mexico".
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Flor Silvestre's family was experiencing financial problems at the time, and she sang at banquets and other places in order to win more money and help her parents.
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In December 1945, Flor Silvestre performed at Guadalajara's Coliseo Olimpico and was announced as "Flor Silvestre, the Soul of Ranchera Song".
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Flor Silvestre eventually made its way to Peru, where they performed for the Mexican Air Force, before returning to Mexico.
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When Flor Silvestre returned to Mexico from her South American tour in 1950, her manager got her a contract to perform at Mexico City's most popular nightclub, El Patio.
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Flor Silvestre later said: "Emilio Azcarraga and Gregorio Walerstein went there every day, and everyone saw me there, and they all hired me without me asking for anything, and everyone called me and called me, and that's how I started [singing] on the XEW [station]".
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Flor Silvestre made her first records in 1950 for Columbia Records' Mexican branch.
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Flor Silvestre recorded at least twelve songs for the label, one on each side of six 78 rpm singles.
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Flor Silvestre was reunited with her Primero soy mexicano co-stars Luis Aguilar and Francisco Avitia in the film El tigre enmascarado, which premiered in 1951.
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Flor Silvestre then appeared as the leading lady of actor Dagoberto Rodriguez in a film trilogy, El lobo solitario, La justicia del lobo, and Vuelve el lobo.
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In early 1955, Flor Silvestre sang on the XEW radio program Su programa Calmex, sponsored by Calmex Sardines.
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Flor Silvestre had one of the starring roles in the stage play La hacienda de Carrillo, a revue which opened on 1 July 1955 at the new Teatro Ideal.
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Flor Silvestre had a supporting role opposite Maria Felix in Ismael Rodriguez's Mexican Revolution epic La cucaracha.
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Flor Silvestre sang two tracks from Una gran interprete y dos grandes compositores in the two films she made that year; she sang "Tema eterno" in La yegua colorada and "No me lo tomes a mal" in Valente Quintero.
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Flor Silvestre played Felipe Carrillo Puerto's wife, Isabel Palma, in the film Peregrina, in which she sang the Guty Cardenas bolero "Quisiera".
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Flor Silvestre sang "La palma" in Simon Blanco and played the female leads in Don Herculano enamorado, El moro de cumpas, and Mi caballo el cantador.
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Flor Silvestre made her final film, Triste recuerdo, in 1990.
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Flor Silvestre married her first husband, Andres Nieto, in the 1940s.
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Flor Silvestre gave birth to her first child, singer and dancer Dalia Ines Nieto, when Silvestre was a minor.
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In 1953, Flor Silvestre married radio announcer and bullfighting chronicler Francisco Rubiales Calvo "Paco Malgesto", who would become an Icon of Mexican television.
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The couple separated after Flor Silvestre had an extramarital relationship with her next husband, Antonio Aguilar.
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On 28 February 2012, Flor Silvestre underwent surgery to extirpate the cancer-stricken half of her right lung.
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Flor Silvestre died on 25 November 2020, on her estate in "El Soyate" Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico.
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Flor Silvestre received many awards and honors throughout her career.
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Flor Silvestre has her handprints in the Plaza de las Estrellas.
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Flor Silvestre made her first recordings in 1950 for the Mexican Columbia label.
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Flor Silvestre recorded some songs for the RCA Victor label in 1957.
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In 1957, Flor Silvestre signed a contract with the Musart label.
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Flor Silvestre appeared in more than seventy films, almost always as the star and sometimes as a supporting actress or musical guest.