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[1997] I never acted [in film]. I worked in radio dramas and television series, where I just said a few sentences, and also dubbing. My forte were musical numbers in films. I never had the opportunity to act [in film]; maybe if they had given it to me, I would have liked it, but music absorbed me completely.

[on how she began her singing career] I went [to the XEQ station] looking for a job as a secretary and I ended up with a microphone in my hands. On that occasion I sang "Altivez", by Alfredo Parra. A year later, I went on a tour around the country because I was part of a cigar company's troupe; they paid me 20 pesos daily for a quarter of an hour.

[on Agustín Lara] I met him when he invited me to replace a singer. I loved working with Lara because he was the number-one songwriter, the most popular in Latin America, and despite the years, he will remain Agustín Lara, because he wrote [songs in] all the genres that existed, except rock.