- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGuillermina Jiménez Chabolla
- Nicknames
- La Sentimental
- La Reina de la Canción Mexicana
- Alma de la Canción Ranchera
- La Voz Que Acaricia
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- Flor Silvestre, one of Mexico's greatest recording artists, was also a major star of classic Mexican movies from the 1950s and 1960s. She was born Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla in 1930 in Salamanca, a city in the State of Guanajuato. She inherited her talent from her parents, Jesús Jiménez Cervantes and María de Jesús Chabolla Peña, who were fond of singing mariachi music. Her mother wanted to live in Mexico City, so her father sold everything they owned in Salamanca and moved the family to the nation's capital. She made her debut at the age of 13 singing at the Teatro del Pueblo, a venue located in central Mexico City. Her first radio performances were broadcast by XEFO, Mexico's national radio station. Journalist and announcer Arturo Blancas suggested she change her stage name from La Soldadera (the title of one of her first songs and a play she was in) to Flor Silvestre (the title of a 1943 Dolores Del Río movie). She then won a singing contest sponsored by XEW, Mexico's most famous radio station, and sang in revues at Teatro Colonial. While performing at the Colonial, a showman offered her a contract to tour with his company. The company toured northern Mexico and later Central and South America. In 1950, she returned to Mexico City, where the showman gave her a contract to perform at Mexico's finest nightclub, El Patio. In short time, after producer Gregorio Walerstein invited her to become an actress, she made her film debut in Primero soy mexicano (1950), co-starring Joaquín Pardavé (who also wrote and directed the film) and Luis Aguilar. She also signed her first recording contract with Columbia Records. Her first hits include "Imposible olvidarte", "Pobre corazón", "Que Dios te perdone", and "Guadalajara". Following the success of the aforementioned film, she became one of the new, promising starlets of the '50s cinema of Mexico. Her most notable films from the 1950s are Raquel's Shoeshiner (1957), with Cantinflas; Pueblo en armas (1959), with Armando Silvestre; and The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959), with María Félix. In 1959, she married her recurring co-star Antonio Aguilar. Her most prominent performance is, arguably, featured in Ismael Rodríguez's The Important Man (1961), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a cinematic symbol of the Mexican Revolution, due to her portrayals of soldaderas in films such as ¡Viva la soldadera! (1960), Lauro Puñales (1969), and Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde (1979). Her last film appearance was in Triste recuerdo (1991). Overall, Flor Silvestre is known in Mexico, as well as in other countries, as an extraordinary singer and a prolific film actress.- IMDb Mini Biography By: V.Q. Castro
- SpousesAntonio Aguilar(October 29, 1959 - June 19, 2007) (his death, 2 children)Paco Malgesto(1953 - 1959) (divorced, 2 children)Andrés Nieto Villafranco(September 18, 1945 - 1950) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsJesús Jiménez CervantesMaría de Jesús Chabolla Peña
- RelativesLa Prieta Linda(Sibling)Mary Jiménez(Sibling)Majo Aguilar(Grandchild)Virgilio Ruan(Grandchild)Guillermo Ruan(Grandchild)Marcela Bárbara Fuentes(Grandchild)Susana Aguilar(Grandchild)Emiliano Aguilar(Grandchild)Aneliz Aguilar(Grandchild)Leonardo Aguilar(Grandchild)Ángela Aguilar(Grandchild)Guadalupe Pineda(Niece or Nephew)
- Sweet, emotional singing voice
- Dreamy eyes
- Perfect smile
- Hourglass figure
- Elder sister of singer and actress Enriqueta "Queta" Jiménez La Prieta Linda.
- Starred and received third billing in The Important Man (1961), the second Mexican film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film also received a nomination for the the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film.
- Mother of Dalia Inés, with Andrés Nieto.
- [when asked by Don Francisco if she was going to keep singing] Yes. I think that's what my husband, who is in Heaven, will like: that I continue with Toño [Antonio Aguilar hijo]. That is what he wanted all his life: to take Mexican music wherever you can, to the small villages, to the cities... Until God decides that I no longer be here, but in the meantime, yes, I will continue with Toño. I wanted to go fast behind him [Antonio], but God's will be done.
- [on the Aguilar family's international rodeo show, in which she performed with late husband, Antonio Aguilar, and their two children, Antonio Aguilar hijo and Pepe Aguilar] The four of us. It was a very nice clan. We were the four musketeers always everywhere.
- [her acceptance speech, when Ignacio López Tarso presented her with the Diosa de Plata Lifetime Achievement Award] For me it is a great honor and even more so because this great man gives it to me. I dedicate this Diosa to you, children, to my five children [Dalia Inés, Marcela Rubiales, Francisco Rubiales, Antonio Aguilar hijo, and Pepe Aguilar] and to that man who made me so happy for 52 years, who is in Heaven seeing us right now: Mr. Antonio Aguilar Barraza.
- I have been singing ever since I was eight years old. My father would make me sing because he would hear my songs, and I would learn old songs completely.
- [on her stage name] In those days they were screening the film Wild Flower (1943), starring Dolores Del Río. That is how they named me Flor Silvestre.
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