Graciela Beltrán in the small town of Costa Rica

Costa Rica, Sinaloa

Costa Rica is the name of a small town located about 30 minutes south of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.In its beginnings Costa Rica was a small peasant town created due to the existence of the sugar cane processing plant that was there. In the 1960s, there were just about 15,000 people in the town...

 located in the state of Sinaloa

Sinaloa

Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, is a Mexican singer and actress. She relocated with her family to the Los Angeles area at the age of six, when she began performing at restaurants and fiestas.

Legacy

Born on the west part of Sinaloa

Sinaloa

Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

, on a small town called Costa Rica, where she began her music career entertaining the neighbors whom were her first followers.

Like many, Graciela's mother decided to migrate to Los Angeles, the land of dreams, in search for a better life for her children. It was in Los Angeles where Graciela's music career took off when she first stepped on to a professional stage. Under the name Gracielita Beltran, she began recording albums of norteño, banda and mariachi music with local musicians. Four years later, Beltran was noticed by record execs at EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

, who offered to produce her next record. "Baraja de Oro" was one of the first singles from the six albums Beltran recorded with EMI.

Career

Beltran grew up in Anaheim and sang at a local nightclub called "El Conejo Feliz".

Aside from the many awards, Graciela Beltrán is also proud of the many professional collaborations she has participated in during her career. These include duets with Ednita Nazario

Ednita Nazario

Ednita Nazario is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter who has achieved stardom both at home and abroad. She has been in the music business from a young age, and has released over twenty albums throughout her career....

, Emilio Navaira, Los Tucanes de Tijuana

Los Tucanes de Tijuana

Los Tucanes de Tijuana is a Latino Regional Band founded on April 13, 1987 by Mario Quintero Lara and a group of talented friends in the City of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. From humble beginnings, starting their musical career by playing at nightclubs they rose to become the most successful...

, Chalino Sánchez

Chalino Sánchez

Rosalino "Chalino" Sánchez was a Mexican singer and songwriter.-Early life:Born and raised in a poor family on a ranch called "Las Flechas", Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. His father was Santos Sánchez and his mother Sannorina Felix. He had seven siblings: Armando, Lázaro, Régulo, Lucas,...

, Adán Sánchez

Adán Sánchez

Adán Santos Sánchez , was a popular American singer.-Biography:Sánchez was born in Torrance, CA. He was the son of singer Chalino Sánchez. He was eight years old when his father was kidnapped and killed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in 1992...

, Banda Machos

Banda Machos

Banda Machos is a Mexican band originally from Villa Corona, in the state of Jalisco. The band sings a combination of Banda music, Quebradita, and Ranchera...

, Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico, It has 63% of the Mexican beer market, and exports beer to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada . Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico...

, Conjunto Primavera

Conjunto Primavera

Conjunto Primavera is a Mexican conjunto group from Ojinaga, Chihuahua, currently produced by Alejandro Garcia. In the 1990s and 2000s they became one of the most popular groups in the genre....

 and recently with El Chapo de Sinaloa

El Chapo de Sinaloa

Ernesto Pérez better know by his stage name El Chapo de Sinaloa , is a Mexican norteño/banda singer....

. Her compilation album with Selena

Selena

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez , known simply as Selena, was a Mexican American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits...

, , titled Las Reinas Del Pueblo

Las Reinas Del Pueblo

Las Reinas Del Pueblo English: The Queens of The People is a 1995 greatest hits album featuring the music of American Tejano singer "La Reina del TexMex" Selena and "La Reina De La Banda" Graciela Beltrán...

has sold 5 million copies worldwide. She has also worked with well known and respected producers such as Juan Carlos Calderon, K.C. Porter, Bebu Silvetti and Joan Sebastian

Joan Sebastian

Joan Sebastian is a popular Mexican singer and songwriter. He has composed hundreds of songs and been a regular staple on the top-40 charts in Mexico since his career began in 1977. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music...

. She has shared the stage with Vicente Fernández

Vicente Fernández

Vicente Fernández Gómez is a Mexican singer, producer and actor. Known as Chente or El rey de la canción ranchera throughout the Latin world, Vicente Fernández, who started his career singing for tips on the street, has become a cultural icon, recording more than 50 albums and contributing to...

 among many other successful artists. In 2006, Graciela was the special guest for the Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is a holiday held on May 5. It is celebrated nationwide in the United States and regionally in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla, where the holiday is called El Dia de la Batalla de Puebla...

 celebrations that year after year are held at the White House

White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...

, in this occasion, she shared her talent and music in front of the President of the United States George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

. She has racked up five film appearances and a discography with 20 original titles, the latter half of them with the Mexican Univision

Univision

Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 label. Her career consists of appearances in Sábado Gigante

Sábado Gigante

Sábado Gigante is a Spanish-language television show that is Univision's longest-running program and the longest-running variety TV show in the world. Sábado Gigante is an eclectic and frenetic mix of various contests, human-interest stories, and live entertainment...

, Siempre en Domingo and various shows around the world.

Discography

Albums

• 1987: Gracielita Beltran
• 1988: Gracielita Beltran – 16 exitos
• 1989: Revelacion Ranchero
• 1991: La Estrellita de Sinaloa
• 1992: Graciela Beltrán con Banda
• 1992: Chalino Sanchez y Graciela Beltrán Canta Juntos
• 1993: Mis Mejores Canciones – 17 Super Exitos
• 1993: Graciela Beltrán con la Banda Culiacán
• 1993: Graciela Beltrán con la Banda Santa Cruz
• 1993: a duo con Grupo Modelo
• 1994: Los Tucanes de Tijuana y Graciela Beltrán
• 1995: Tesoro
• 1995: Las Reinas Del Pueblo
  Las Reinas Del Pueblo
  Las Reinas Del Pueblo English: The Queens of The People is a 1995 greatest hits album featuring the music of American Tejano singer "La Reina del TexMex" Selena and "La Reina De La Banda" Graciela Beltrán...
  
  
• 1996: Mi Corazon Es Tuyo
• 1997: La Reina Del Pueblo con Banda y Mariachi
• 1997: Tuya
• 1998: Robame Un Beso - Producido por Joan Sebastian
• 1998: Graciela Beltrán con Banda – Grandes y Nuevos Exitos
• 1998: Navida Para Mi Pueblo - Junto con otros artistas
• 1999: La Reina Del Pueblo
• 2001: Para Mi Pueblo
• 2001: Esto Es Lo Nuestro
• 2002: A Los Grandes
• 2003: No Me Arrepiento De Nada
• 2003: Graciela Beltrán – La Historia - Incluye 10 Videos
• 2004: Mi Otro Sentimiento
• 2005: Tuya
• 2006: Rancherisimas con Banda
• 2007: Es Cosa De El
• 2007: Promesas No
• 2008: Una Reina En Hollywood
• 2009: La Reina De La Banda

Filmography

• 1990 Ni Parientes Somos as Herself
• 1991 El Corrido De Los Perez as Herself
• 1994 La Reina de las Bandas as Herself
• 1994 La Quebradita as Herself
• 2006 La Fea Más Bella
  La fea más bella
  La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea...
  
  as Herself

External links

• Graciela Beltran - official webpage
• Graciela Beltran at IMDb
• http://music.aol.com/artist/graciela-beltran/biography/1023785
• http://www.rhapsody.com/graciela-beltran
• http://www.elmariachi.com/Artists/graciela_beltran.aspx
• http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/beltran_graciela/artist.jhtml
• http://www.universalmusica.com/gracielabeltran/Biography