Thalia in Ocean Drive en Espanol Tuesday July 15, 2008 4:00pm EST According to Latingossip.com Thalia is featured on the latest cover of Ocean Drive en Espanol talking about her career, her album and, of course, little Sabrina Sakae. “I have the help of my mother and a person that has worked with me for 13 years. But I am dedicated 100% to my daughter. I waited many years for this moment and my priorities are clear.” Ariadna Thalia Sodi Miranda (born 26 August 1971 in Mexico City, Mexico), commonly known as Thalia, is a Mexican singer and actress with multi Latin Grammy and Latin Billboard awards. In Latin America, she is regarded as the “Queen of Telenovelas” because her telenovelas were highly successful even in non Latin American countries and watched by almost a billion people around the world. According to Thalia.com. She has won numerous awards in Mexico as a singer and actress from different important award giving bodies. She is also a businesswoman, fashion designer, record producer and writer. Her husband is the American music executive Tommy Mottola. Thalia has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Thalia is the daughter of Ernesto Sodi Pallares; a scientist, doctor of pathology, criminologist and writer, and Yolanda Miranda Mange, a painter and Thalia's manager from 1980 to 1999. She has four sisters: Laura a theater, TV and movie actress, and singer; Federica, an anthropologist; Gabriela, a historian, and Ernestina, a doctor of Literature and Arts and writer. Thalia is of Spanish ancestry. As a youth, Thalia was a good student throughout her school years and studied at the prestigious Elycio Francee Mexican whose half-Spanish and half-French curriculum made her bilingual at an early age. Thalia said that if she were not in show business, she would become a biologist or psychologist. Her niece Camila Sodi is also an actress, who has a child with the Mexican actor Diego Luna. Mexican superstar Thalia appeared in her first movie appearance when she was just 5 years old in the movie entitled "La Guerra de los Pasteles" starring Angelica Maria and Raul Vale which also featured her sister Laura. As a youngster, she studied gymnastics, ballet and piano. She became involved in show business at the tender age of nine after joining a local group called Pac Man which was renamed Din Din, a children-oriented singing group with which they recorded their debut album, entitled Alegrias Musicales, in 1981. Two years later, Ariadna Thalia Sodi and Miarnda successfully participated in the local festival Juguemos A Cantar, singing a pop tune called "Moderna La Chica Del Rock," and soon played a role in the musical play Vaselina (the Latin version of Grease). As a vocalist she is considered a mezzo-soprano. In 1984 she was cast in the teenage version of the stage production Grease, in which she played the lead role of Sandy. In 1986 she replaced one of the original female vocalists of Timbiriche, Sasha Sokol. That same year she was cast in her first soap opera, Pobre Senorita Limantour. In 1986, she starred in the Mexican telenovela Quinceanera. Then, she starred in her next soap opera entitled “Luz y Sombra” in 1989. In 1991, Thalia went to Spain to participate as one of the hosts of the evening TV variety show "VIP Noche". She went to Los Angeles, California to prepare for a solo career. When she went back to Mexico from U.S.A. for her solo singing career, Thalia gave soap opera another try when Telenovela producer Valentin Pimpstein offered her the Maria Trilogy namely, Maria Mercedes in 1992, Marimar in 1994 and Maria la del Barrio in 1995, which all became a huge ratings success worldwide even in non Spanish speaking countries. In 1999 she made the soap opera Rosalinda which also became a huge ratings success worldwide although, just fairly successful in Mexico. Her solo career began in 1990 with the release of a self-titled album produced by Alfredo Diaz Ordaz. Mundo de Cristal followed in 1991, and Love in 1992. Emilio Estefan, Jr. produced En Extasis in 1995 before Thalia released the successful Amor a la Mexicana in 1997 and Arrasando in 2000, which garnered a Latin Grammy award for best engineered album. In 2002, the Mexican singer/actress teamed up with producers Cory Rooney and Steve Morales to start working on her first crossover songs for her English debut, "Thalia" and released in 2003. Her first English album was a mild success in America but became a huge success in Japan and Brazil. In 2000, she starred in the independent film, Mambo Cafe, a modest Hollywood production in which she played a young Puerto Rican girl, alongside Danny Aiello, Paul Rodriguez, and Rosanna de Soto. Later that year, on December 2, 2000, Thalia married the former president of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York in a three-million dollar ceremony and reception. They currently live in New York City. Thalia has also worked as a record producer, composer, TV and radio host, fashion designer, magazine editor, and model. In 2007 Thalia, who had become a naturalized US citizen in January 2006 according to [Latina Magazine] dated January 2006, joined the ABC Network in order to start the radio program "The Conexion Thalia Radio Show," where she talks about music, fashion, news and political issues.