Irma Serrano

Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and politician. Famous for her tantalizing, untamed spitfire voice, she is one of the most noted performers of the ranchera and corrido genres she was nicknamed La Tigresa de la Cancin Ranchera and later known simply as La Tigresa . Four of her greatest hits reached the Audiomusica list of top songs in Mexico Miel amarga peaked at numberin 1966, Tierra mala peaked at numberin 1966, El puente roto peaked atin 1966, and La Martina peaked at numberin 1967.

Serrano is the third of three children . Her father, Santiago Serrano Ruiz El Chanti , was a distinguished author, poet, and politician born in Suchiapa to humble parents of indigenous descent. Her mother, Mara Castro Domnguez, was a local aristocrat who owned seventeen haciendas. Her parents divorced when she wasyears old. She is a cousin of poet, author, and diplomat Rosario Castellanos.

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