Thalía is a Mexican singer, actress, and entrepreneur from Mexico City whose career spans pop music, television, and long-running commercial projects. Her public activity began in 1981 through appearances connected to a children’s music group associated with Televisa programming, and it gained strong momentum in 1986 when she joined Timbiriche, one of the most prominent youth pop groups of that era. After that period, she launched her solo career with the studio album “Thalía,” released in 1990, establishing an independent discography while continuing to build her profile as a television performer.

She became widely known through starring roles in telenovelas that circulated broadly across Latin America and beyond, especially “María Mercedes” (1992), “Marimar” (1994), and “María la del Barrio” (1995), which cemented her identity as a leading face of 1990s Mexican melodrama. In music, her international reach expanded with key releases from the same decade, including “Piel Morena” as a single tied to the album “En Éxtasis” (1995), a phase that strengthened her presence outside Mexico and helped define her mainstream pop image.

Across her career, she has been publicly linked to widely recognized figures in entertainment: early on, she shared the Timbiriche era with members such as Paulina Rubio, and in her personal life she married music executive Tommy Mottola in 2000. On the collaboration side, she also took part in a duet with Tony Bennett connected to the “Viva Duets” project, a notable crossover that placed her voice alongside a classic repertoire context and a different musical generation.