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Flor Silvestre

Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla (born 16 August 1930), commonly known by her stage name Flor Silvestre (Spanish pronunciation: [floɾ silˈβestɾe]), is a Mexican singer and actress whose multifaceted career spans seventy years.Famed for her beauty and sentimental style of singing, she began her career in the 1940s, performing ranchera music on radio stations. In the early 1950s, she signed with Columbia Records and released her first successful recordings, which include "Guadalajara", "Imposible olvidarte", "Pobre corazón", and "Viejo nopal". In 1957, she signed with Musart Records, the label for which she recorded many of her best-selling songs such as "Cielo rojo", "Mi destino fue quererte", "Renunciación", "Cachito de mi vida", "Gaviota traidora", "Lágrimas del alma", "Qué bonito amor", and "Desolación".As an actress, she is regarded as one of the folkloric leading ladies of the "golden age" of Mexican cinema. Her most prominent performances are featured in Primero soy mexicano (1950), El bolero de Raquel (1957), La cucaracha (1959), and Ánimas Trujano (1962), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She also lended her name and likeness to the title character of La Llanera Vengadora, a comic book series.She married twice and has five children. Her second husband was singer and actor Antonio Aguilar, with whom she toured internationally. Her younger sister, Enriqueta Jiménez, is also a singer and actress.