Ariadna Thalia
Sodi Miranda
Height: 1.67 m.
Weight: 48 Kg.
Waist:56 cm.
Size 3 or 5
Born: 8/26/'71
Place of Birth Mexico, D.F.
Ariadne Thalia Sodi y Miranda was born
on August 26, 1971 in Hospital Espanol, Mexico City. She was the youngest
born following the births of Laura, Ernestina,Gabriela and Frederica.
Little did Snr. Sodi know that he would enjoy his youngest daughters company
for only 5 years of her life. The death of a parent is devastating for
any child. Specially one as caring and sensitive as Thalia. The sudden
loss of her father drove her into a world of her own. She did not speak
to anyone for a year and it drove her mother to bring her to see psychiatric
specialists. She withdrew into a world of her own to deal with her fathers
death. The year she came out of her self-imposed "World of Silence", the
first thing she asked he r mother was "Where is my father ?" Thus
began Thalia's coming to terms with death.
S?ra. Sodi saw to it that all her girls got the proper education their
father would be proud of. Thalia was sent to very good schools in
Mexico for her educational training.
As a child, she went to Thomas Alva Edison School, then she went on to
Liceo Franco
Mexicano A.C. (a french school
in mexico). Had her entertainment career not beckoned so early, she would
have finished her Pre
University studies at Colegio Rossland
CS.
As an
adolescent, she entertained dreams of becoming the Mexican "Nadia Comaneci",
an Olympic Gold medalist and the only one to score perfect 10's in all
her gymnastic events. This dream led her to enroll at the age of
6 in Academia de Nellie Happee for Classical Ballet training. But the theatrical
exposure she got from her eldest sister Laura, influenced her to dream
of becoming a singer and an actress. It was this ambition in her
that drove little Thalia to control the temper tantrums most children have.
In her sister Laura's own words, "If little Thalia misbehaved, she would
not be allowed to watch me in my plays. This always worked. She was always
well behaved. At the theater she would watch me
with eager eyes and sometimes help pull the stage curtains."
Thus, a wide-eyed
child's dream of her name being in bright lights was born.
At the age of 8 she enrolled in
Piano lessons at Instituto Mexicano de Musica.
The rest of her artistic
training was completed at the School of Tarra Parra by the time she was
13 years old.
At the
age of 10, she was discovered by Paco Ayala and asked to sing with the
children's singing
group Din Din. She released
4 albums with them. A stage stint in the musical "Vaselina" opened
the doors for her to replace
Sasha in 1986 when the former left Timbiriche. It was one of the best
decisions the groups manager
ever made. Thalia's addition to Timbiriche made the groups
popularity soar to even greater
heights.
Rifts
within Timbiriche eventually drove the group to disband. By 1990,
Thalia had gone on to become a solo performer with the release of her first
solo album"Thalia". Her acting career started in 1983. She debuted in the
tv Christmas special "Chiquilladas".
Her first ever acting job in a
telenovela was in 1987, "Pobre Seniorita Limantour" marked her debut as
a tv actress. It was also during this year that she made "Quincenerea",
her first ever leading role. This was then followed by "Luz y Sombra",
one of her telenovela projects that she is not too proud
of as this telenovela entailed a lot of personal conflict among the cast.
From 1992 to 1995, she concentrated
her work on the so called "Tres Marias." "Maria Mercedes , Mari Mar,
and Maria La Del Barrio", established her image as the "Queen of Latin
Telenovelas". Along with this, her resounding success as a solo performer
has recently established her as the "Queen of Latin Pop Music".
Thalia's achievements
past and present, all contributed to the Star that she has become.
