About Ana Gabriel
María Guadalupe Araujo Yong , known professionally as Ana Gabriel, is a Mexican singer and songwriter. With over 40 million records sold worldwide, Gabriel is the best-selling Mexican female artist, and one of the best-selling Latin music artists of all time. Dubbed as the "Diva de América" and the "Luna de América", during her long career, she has performed different genres of music .
As of 2013, Gabriel had released twenty studio albums, three live albums, and fifteen compilation albums. Three of Gabriel's albums have topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, and has achieved 7 number-one singles on the Hot Latin Songs chart, including "Ay Amor", "Es Demasiado Tarde", and "Quién Como Tú".
She has been listed amongst history's greatest Latin artists by Billboard. Her accolades include a Grammy Award nomination, four Latin Grammy Award nominations, thirteen Lo Nuestro Awards , as well as awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers , and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
María Guadalupe Araujo Yong was born in Guamúchil, Sinaloa, Mexico on December 10, 1955. She did not receive formal training for singing and she credits her maternal grandfather Roberto Yong, an immigrant from China, for providing the only singing coaching she received.
She first sang on the stage at age six, singing "Regalo A Dios" by José Alfredo Jiménez. She moved to Tijuana, Baja California and studied accounting. At age 21, in 1977, she recorded her first song, titled "Compréndeme".
In 1987, Ana Gabriel won third place at the OTI Festival, celebrated in Lisbon, Portugal, where she performed an orchestral version of the pop-power ballad song "Ay Amor", which later was released as a single in its album version; it climbed to the top position in Mexico, throughout Ibero-America and on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for 14 consecutive weeks.
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