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Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda, known simply as Thalía, was born August 26, 1971 and she is a Mexican pop singer and former actress. Her name is linked to popular soap operas (or telenovelas) which made her famous. Thalia began her musical career at the age of 9. Her soap operas have been watched by over one billion people. She is a multi-platinum recording artist and married to music executive Tommy Mottola. Amor a la Mexicana, is considered to be Thalia's best-selling album.

Thalía was born in Mexico City on August 26, 1971. She is daughter of Yolanda Miranda Mange and Ernesto Sodi Pallares.

In 1986 she became a member of a successful band Timbiriche, taking the place of the popular Sasha Sokol.

Changes came in 1995, after a three-year pause, when she moved from Fonovisa to EMI Latin and released her label debut, En Éxtasis, her first record for EMI, featured her first major international hit, "Piel Morena". The album was produced with the aid of celebrated producers such as Emilio Estefan (husband of the famous Cuban singer Gloria Estefan) and Óscar López. The album became her first international success, and has been sold in across Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. It has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide, and has been recognized with multiple gold and platinum records.

A great concert for all of her the fans she has and to all of her the success in the Philippines in 1996 and so, she was invited to visit the country in that year. Being a singer, she had a major live concert at both the Folk Arts Theater which filled up the SRO total seat capacity and at the Araneta Coliseum which filled up to its SRO 25,000 thousand seat capacity.

In 1997, Thalía came back to the Philippines to release her album Nandito Ako, also the cd single. She also gave two major live concerts that year, both at the Araneta Coliseum. The album is mostly recorded in Tagalog and English. This was Thalia´s actual "cross over", and she did it before becoming a huge success worldwide and before many other Latin American singers started to sing in English, including Ricky Martin, Shakira or Paulina Rubio. "Nandito ako" features the Tagalog version of Wilfrido Vargas' popular merengue song "El Venao", whose title in the album is "Chika Lang". The cd was re-edited in 2007 by EMI, to commemorate the 10 years of its release. This later version features different pictures from the original album, all of them taken from the cd "El sexto sentido", which Thalia was going to record many years later.

In 1997 Atlantic Records released the soundtrack for the animated feature film Anastasia, which included as a bonus track the Spanish version of "Journey to the Past", performed by Thalía. Also in that year, she traveled back to the Philippines and had a major concert at the Araneta Coliseum.

Latin pop producer Emilio Estefan, Jr. produced her next album, Amor a la Mexicana in which—returning to her Latin roots—includes rhythms with a Mexican-Cuban flavor in the lead single. Amor à la Mexicana met international success and was a much stronger album, her first great one, which featured hits such as "Amor A La Mexicana", "Por Amor" or "Mujer Latina". This album established her as a Latin Pop diva around the world. In the Wax Museum of Mexico City, they unveiled her statue in life size.

In 1997, 25 April was declared the "Day of Thalía" in Los Angeles. She has a broad fan base around the world, through her music and telenovelas. She has been named one of the "25 most beautiful people" by the magazine People en Español many times. She has been a guest on television programs, including Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, El Show de Cristina and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.

She also starred in Mambo Cafe, a modest Hollywood production in which she played a young Puerto Rican girl alongside Danny Aiello and Rosanna de Soto with Paul Rodriguez as her father. The movie received poor reviews and went straight to video. After the failure of this movie, Thalia has not acted in a film.

Emilio Estefan also produced her follow-up, Arrasando, which was very successful. Thalia was nominated in the Latin Grammy category as the "Best Female Pop Artist of the Year". The album also received one Latin Grammy nomination and it won in its category as the "Best Sound Engineered Album of the year". The singles of this album ("Arrasando/It's My Party", "Entre El Mar Y Una Estrella", "Regresa a Mi" and "Reencarnación") were great hits too. In 2001 she was nominated for her record Arrasando and won a Lo Nuestro award in the category of People's Prize, and was the first artist to whom an innovative award from Billboard Awards for Latin Music was given, the "Star Award". Sales of the album have exceeded 3 million copies on the international level.

On May 5 — a Mexican National Holiday — the President of the United States, George W. Bush, invited her to a party organized at the White House, and she interpreted a potpourri of popular Mexican songs with a Mexican mariachi orchestra.

In 2006, Because of the failure of El Sexto Sentido and its singles, EMI felt the need to revive the album, so they created El Sexto Sentido: Re+Loaded. Thalía was the 'godmother' of Cantando Por Un Sueño, a Mexican TV reality show. It was rumored she got paid 1 million dollars to perform. Thalía recorded the title song of the show, and it was included in El Sexto Sentido Re+Loaded (a re-released version of Thalia's current album). It was released in Mexico on February 13, 2006 (U.S. June 6, Spain May 29) and features four new songs, including a duet with the group Aventura "No, No, No" which become a massive hit. "El Sexto Sentido was nominated in one Latin Billboard category - "Pop Female Album" and in eight Premios Juventud categories.
In 2006, Thalía became a U.S. citizen at a swearing-in ceremony in New York, where she resides with her husband. Under Mexican law she is allowed to retain her Mexican citizenship. Thalia also joined ABC Radio to start The Conexión Thalía Radio Show, where she talks about music, fashion, news and political issues.

On June 12, 2007, according to news released on the website of Hello! magazine, in an exclusive interview for the Mexican edition of ¡Hola!, she announced that she was pregnant. The issue was a top seller where it dethroned Luis Miguel's son's picture (the best seller) moving to #2 after Thalia's issue managed to be Hola's Top-selling issue of its history selling over 2.1 million units in just 4 days in Mexico and Spain alone.

Afterwards, she was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in People en Español 2008 for a record-breaking seventh time where they called her their "Queen".