, one of Mexico’s most popular singers who also starred in scores of films, died today at 90. Televisa’ssaid she died surrounded by her family — including her son, singer and actor Pepe Aguilar — at Rancho el Soyate, the Zacatecas ranch she once shared with her late husband, the singer and actor Antonio Aguilar.
Emerging as a radio star in her late teens, Silvestre inked a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1950 and soon began to score Spanish-language hits. That same year, she appeared in her first two movies —— and would go on to appear in nearly 70 more during the next four decades. She moved to the Musart Records label in 1957 and continued to rack up hit songs — including one of her signature in 1964 — all while making films and appearing in her husband’s popular musical rodeo touring show. Silvestre starred alongside Toshiro Mifune and her husband in the 1962 film
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