Enriqueta "Queta" Jiménez Chabolla (4 July 1922 – 21 September 2021), known by her stage name La Prieta Linda ("The Beautiful Dark-skinned Woman"), was a Mexican singer and actress.
Early life
La Prieta Linda was born on 4 July 1922 in
Salamanca, Guanajuato
Salamanca ( Otomi: ''Xidoo'' "Place of Tepetate") is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
The city was founded on January 1, 1603, as 'Villa de Salamanca' by the Viceroy Gaspar de Zúñiga, fifth Count of Monterrey, who w ...
(2 years after her older sister
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 w ...
was born), and later grew up in central
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...
. She was the younger sister of singer and actress
Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla "Flor Silvestre" and the elder sister of singer
Mary Jiménez
María de la Luz Jiménez Chabolla, known professionally as Mary Jiménez or Mari Jiménez, is a Mexican ranchera singer who was nicknamed ''La Folklórica Sexy'' ("The Sexy Folk Singer") because of her sensuous voice. She has recorded albums for ...
.
Career
La Prieta Linda, who owed her stage name to the famous comedian Clavillazo, debuted as a singer with
Silvestre Vargas's
mariachi
Mariachi (, , ) is a genre of regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. The usual mariachi group today consists of as many as eight violins, two ...
.
In 1950, her elder sister
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 w ...
, who had already signed with
' Mexican branch, invited her to form a duet named Las Flores; they recorded two songs—"Los desvelados" and "Lo traigo en la sangre" (with Rubén Fuentes' mariachi)—for Columbia. In 1952, La Prieta Linda recorded her first hit, "Quieto, capulín", for Columbia. Later, with the help of singer and actress
Lola Beltrán
María Lucila "Lola" Beltrán Ruiz (7 March 1932 – 24 March 1996) was a Mexican actress and singer.
She is and was one of Mexico's most acclaimed singers of Ranchera and Huapango music. She collaborated with other Mexican music stars such as ...
, La Prieta Linda had her own radio programs and signed a contract with
Peerless Records
Peerless Records was a record label based in Mexico.
Peerless was founded in 1921 in Mexico City by E. Baptista. Early pressings of their gramophone record were made under contract by Gennett Records. By 1933, Peerless was pressing its own rec ...
(Beltrán's record label). She made most of her 1950s recordings for Peerless, including some collaborations with Beltrán, David Záizar, and Juan Záizar. She appeared in her first film in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, she signed with
RCA Víctor and recorded new hits such as "Mil cadenas" and "Al ver". In 1979, she won the first Ranchera Music Festival with the song "Amantes de una noche".
Over the years Jiménez recorded over 40 albums and made various tours across Mexico and other countries.
In her acting career, her comic role in the film ''
Valente Quintero'' was highly notable since she gave a performance without singing.
Personal life
She was the widow of the former ''Excélsior'' journalist Raúl Vieyra, who died in 2006. They had three daughters: Érika, Velia, and Isabel. Jiménez died on 21 September 2021 at the age of 99 in Mexico City.
Murió Queta Jiménez, 'La Prieta Linda', hermana de Flor Silvestre
Discography
Singles
* "Quieto capulín" (Columbia, 1952)
Studio albums
* ''La Prieta Linda interpreta con el Mariachi Guadalajara de Silvestre Vargas y Hnos. Záizar'' (Peerless)
* ''"Canciones de América" en la voz de Queta Jiménez "La Prieta Linda"'' (Peerless)
* ''El peor de los caminos'' (Peerless)
* ''La Prieta Linda con el Mariachi Guadalajara de Silvestre Vargas'' (Peerless)
* ''La Prieta "Más" Linda: Queta Jiménez'' (RCA Víctor)
Compilation albums
* ''Los grandes éxitos de: Queta Jiménez La Prieta Linda'' (Peerless)
* ''Antología... Enriqueta Jiménez "La Prieta Linda"'' (Warner)
* ''Mexicanísimo: Queta Jiménez "La Prieta Linda"'' (Sony Music)
Filmography
* ''El gallo colorado'' (1957)
* ''Bajo el cielo de México'' (1958)
* ''El tiro de gracia'' (1961)
* ''Duelo indio'' (1961)
* ''Enterrado vivo'' (1961)
* ''La máscara roja'' (1962)
* ''Juramento de sangre'' (1962)
* ''Matar o morir'' (1963)
* ''Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura'' (1963)
* ''Los alegres Aguilares'' (1967)
* ''Valentín de la Sierra
''Valentín'' is a 2002 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Alejandro Agresti. The film features Rodrigo Noya as Valentín and Carmen Maura as the grandmother. Director Alejandro Agresti also stars as Valentín's father.
Th ...
'' (1968)
* '' Valente Quintero'' (1973)
* ''Es mi vida'' (1982)
* ''Los pobres ilegales'' (1982)
* ''¡Ora es cuando chile verde!'' (1986)
References
External links
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1922 births
2021 deaths
Mexican film actresses
Ranchera singers
Actresses from Guanajuato
Singers from Guanajuato
People from Salamanca, Guanajuato
20th-century Mexican actresses
20th-century Mexican women singers