Name	Angelica Maria
Height	5 ft 6 in
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	27-September-1944
Place of Birth	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Famous for	Singing

Angelica Maria is a American-born Mexican actress and a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. After a few musicals, she asked for her mother's assistance (who was also her manager) and together with Armando Manzanero, then a new songwriter, she sang 1962's Eddy Eddy which would eventually become one of her greatest musical successes.

Manzanero took Angelica to see a producer, and in the same year she released her first album on the Musart record label. The album was a success, so she began touring and making movies with teen idols such as Cesar Costa and Venezuelan actor/singer Enrique Guzmán who she would date later. In 1965, she filmed "Fray Torero" (Friar Bullfighter) in Spain and came back to Mexico to work in two movies, and to record her sixth album. Then, she acted in such successful films as 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa (Five of chocolate and one of strawberry) and obtained the starring role in the 1968 film version of Corazón salvaje a movie that made her famous in places as far as China. After joining RCA, she would later become one of the biggest stars in Latin America. In 1971, she acted in Ernesto Alonso's telenovela Muchacha italiana viene a casarse ("Italian girl comes to get married") which opened the Spanish television market in the United States, and was a success in Central America and South America. In 1973 she met the aspiring singer Juan Gabriel who would become one of the biggest selling artists in the world. Together, they would record ballads performed by mariachi bands, thus creating the style "balada ranchera". The single Tu sigues siendo el mismo ("You are still the same") sold one million copies in the United States alone, and has since then been performed by dozens of other singers.

She also filmed one of her biggest telenovelas Ana del aire ("Ana of the air", playing a flight attendant role) and recorded three more albums in 1974. In 1977, she made the telenovela version of her film Corazon salvaje, released two albums, and performed in the play Papacito Piernas Largas ("Daddy Long-legs"), a play that would spun off an album, and broke the record of more than 1000 performances sold out in the next 3 years.