Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla, known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne. Her more than 70-year career included stage productions, radio programs, records, films, television programs, comics, and rodeo shows. She recorded more than 300 songs for three labels: Columbia, RCA Víctor, and Musart.
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Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla, known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne. She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music. Her more than 70-year career included stage productions, radio programs, records, films, television programs, comics, and rodeo shows. She recorded more than 300 songs for three labels: Columbia, RCA Víctor, and Musart. She appeared in more than seventy films between 1950 and 1990. In 2013, the Association of Mexican Cinema Journalists honored her with the Special Silver Goddess Award. She died at her home in Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico, on 25 November 2020 at the age of 87. She is survived by her husband, Antonio Aguilar, and two daughters. She had a son and a daughter with the late singer María de Jesús Chabola Peña. She also had a grandson with singer Francisco Pancho, known as Raquel, and a granddaughter with singer Enriqueta de la Luz, who died in 2012. She has a daughter and a son-in-law with Mexican singer Carmen Cevallos, also known as César Cervantes, who was a star of the 1970s and 1980s. Her grandchildren are the singers María de María and Inés Inés Chabla, and her great-grandchildren are María delia and José Luis Chabala.
Her great-great-granddaughter is the singer Jorge Negrete Reyes, who is known as Lucha Negrete, who sang in the tango and pasodle genres in the 1930s and 1940s. She sang songs that belonged to the pasoble, bolero, and tango genres, which were popular in Mexico in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In 1945, she was announced as the \”Alma de the Canción Ranchera\”, and in 1950, the year in which she emerged as a radio star,. She was proclaimed the \”Reina de the canción Mexicana\”. In 1950, she signed a contract with Columbia Records and recorded her first hits, which include \”Imposible olvidarte\”, \”Que Dios te perdone\”, and \”Pobre corazón\”, and “Adoro a mi tierra\”. In 1957, she began recording for Musart Records and became one the label’s exclusive artists with numerous best-selling singles, such as “Cielo rojo” and “La basurita” Many of her hits charted on Cashbox Mexico’s Best Sellers and Record World Latin American Single Hit Parade. She made her acting debut in the film Primero soy mexicano, directed by and co-starring Joaquín Pardavé. She played opposite famous comedians such as Cantinflas in El bolero de Raquel.
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