Lucha Villa is tagged as: buddhistisk musik, mazna 4alga, new yrok, akademic, dm05 Lucha Villa (Born as Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano in Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico on 30 November 1936) is a singer in the ranchera style, and a film actress. Mexico’s most famous ranchera singer, Lucha Villa earned more notice than Lola Beltran thanks to a long, successful film career in addition to her recording work. Born in the Chihuahua state town of Ciudad Camargo in the mid-’30s, young Luz Elena Bejarano entered a number of talent contests and was dubbed Lucha Villa by television producer Luis Dillon (the name is a contraction of Pancho Villa and the Chihuahua village where he spent time). Her biggest early hit (1961) was a version of the José Alfredo Jiménez standard “Media Vuelta,” and after several minor film roles, she became a star with the 1965 cockfighting feature El Gallo de Oro. As with her music, Villa specialized in rural and ranchera pictures, a genre especially connected to American audiences familiar with Westerns. During the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, she recorded dozens of albums and appeared in dozens of pictures, including the 1973 screwball comedy Mecánica Nacional, which won the Ariel award (Mexico’s version of the Oscar). She also recorded songbook tributes to Jiménez and Juan Gabriel, and was ... Read More About Lucha Villa Biography...  Send Lucha Villa ringtones to your cell
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