''Flor Silvestre'' is a

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by Mexican singer

Flor Silvestre Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla (16 August 1930 – 25 November 2020), known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer and actress. She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music, and ...

, released in 1959 by

Musart Records Discos Musart is a Mexican record label founded in 1948. It is headquartered in Mexico City and remains one of the country's biggest labels, focusing on Mexican music, as well as international releases licensed from various labels around the world. ...

. It is Flor Silvestre's first Musart album and contains the hit singles she recorded for the label in the late 1950s. The album was reissued several times in its original LP format. In 2008, an abridged version of the album, ''Laguna de pesares'', was released digitally.

Background

This is Flor Silvestre's first studio album for Musart. Flor had only recorded singles and tracks for

soundtrack albums A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show. The first such album to be commercially released was Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' ...

prior to the release of this album. According to the liner notes, Musart took "great care in choosing songs that are most appropriate for the style and

tessitura In music, tessitura (, pl. ''tessiture'', "texture"; ) is the most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer or less frequently, musical instrument, the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding (or character ...

of such a unique singer lor Silvestre.Liner notes from the Musart LP D-481, ''Flor Silvestre''.

Track listing

Side one Side two

Personnel

* Mariachi México – accompaniment * Mariachi Zapopan – accompaniment

References

External links

''Flor Silvestre''
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