María del Sol

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María del Sol (born Marisol de las Mercedes Echánove Rojas October 24, 1961 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato) is a Mexican singer. She is the daughter of the late lawyer Alonso Echánove and the actress/journalist Josefina Echánove and the younger sister of Peggy Echánove and actor Alonso Echánove.

Llegó el amor album cover

In the 1970s she auditioned with music producer Luis de Llano and got married at the age of 16 with Miguel Magaña 14 years her senior but divorced a year later. In 1979 she was named The Voice of Heraldo and starred in the musical La Pandilla and was named Best New Artist at the OTI Festival. In 1980 she recorded her first album and in 1981 got best singer prize at the Yamaha Festival in Japan and got married to Raúl Canessa the brother of Uruguayan football player Julio Canessa. In 1984 she starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and recorded her second album María del Sol and Mágico, her third album, in 1985. In 1986 she had one of her best hits Un nuevo amor with her husband acting as manager.

In 1988, after her husband secretly obtained a contract for nude photos with Playboy Magazine, the couple divorced. She later married a German man with whom she had a daughter. In 1991 she starred in Cats and she later divorced again. In 1995 she again posed nude for Playboy. She became later a born-again Christian and recorded the Christian album Llegó el amor.

[edit] Discography

RCA
- Maria Del Sol, (1980)
- Quiero Tu Vida (1982)
- Maria Del Sol (1984)
- Magico (1985)
- Un Nuevo Amor (1986)
- Plenitud (1987)
- Maria (1989)
- Contigo Y Con El Mundo: Lo Mejor De Maria Del Sol (1990)
- Volver Al Amor (1991)
- Cats: Original Cast Recording (Mexico's Production) (1992)
- Llego El Amor (2002)
- Soy Mama (2005)