Angélica María

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as Angelica Maria Harman Ortiz, Angelica Maria grew up as the sole daughter of musician Arnie Hartman and Angelica Ortiz. Frequent childhood travels accompanied her due to her father’s musical commitments. Her professional path opened at age ten through an appearance in the film Mala Semilla alongside Pedro Infante’s backing band, Perla de Occidente. She cut her first album upon turning seventeen; in 1960 she made her initial soap-opera appearance and later performed in more than a dozen others, among them Cartas de Amor and El Callejón del Beso.

The mid-1960s brought her first major success with the Spanish-language rock single “Eddie, Eddie.” By the following decade her name had become linked to ranchera ballads such as “Tú Sigues Siendo el Mismo.” Outside the recording studio she maintained an active presence in television and theater while accumulating more than sixty film credits.