Natalia Jiménez

Natalia Jiménez, the Spanish singer and songwriter, divides her time these days between homes in Mexico City and Miami, Florida. Though she has achieved global recognition on her own, she first rose to prominence fronting the Latin pop outfit La Quinta Estación, whose nearly two dozen Top 40 singles across Spain and Mexico were joined by multiple platinum-selling albums. The group entered a hiatus in November 2010, after which Jiménez pursued a solo path that has so far yielded several charting releases, among them the 2019 star-studded worldwide hit Mexico de Mi Corazon; a second volume followed in 2021, while the live mini-album De Jiménez a Jiménez surfaced in 2024.

Raised in Madrid by parents who both played music, she began composing during childhood. At age 15 she took her own material and favorite standards to the streets and subway stations of the city. She entered into a BMG Entertainment contract in 2011 and assumed lead-vocal duties alongside guitarist and co-songwriter Ángel Reyero in the hit-making La 5ª Estación; together they issued five charting albums from 2001 to 2010, three of which earned gold or platinum certification.

Once the band paused, Jiménez chose to go solo. Her initial solo outing came as a featured voice on Ricky Martin’s “Lo Mejor de Mi Vida Eres Tú,” after which her own 2011 single “Por Ser Tu Mujer” appeared on the charts. Later that year she delivered her self-titled debut album, which reached the summit of various digital Latin tallies and captured a Premio lo Nuestro trophy for best new artist. She shared a duet with Daddy Yankee on his 2013 hit “La Noche de los Dos,” then joined Telemundo’s La Voz Kids as a coach the following year. “Quedate con Ella” charted at the close of 2014, and her second studio set, Creo en Mi, arrived in early 2015 to top the Puerto Rican rankings while reaching number two on the U.S. Top Latin Albums survey.

In fall 2016 she issued the Jenni Rivera tribute Homenaje a la Gran Senora, which earned two Latin Grammy nominations. México de Mi Corazón followed in 2019 as a salute to the Mexican artists who shaped the modern songbook—Juan Gabriel, Rocío Dúrcal, and Javier Solís among them—captured live inside TV Azteca’s Primera Fila studios. The star-studded sessions featured Carlos Rivera, Lila Downs, El Bebeto, Paquita la del Barrio, Pedro Fernández, and the MS Band of Sergio Lizárraga, delivering mariachi, banda, and ranchera performances. A second installment arrived in 2021, again with some of those same guests plus Ana Barbara, Gerardo Ortiz, and Joss Favela.

Jiménez and her former La 5ª Estación colleague Reyero announced a reunion in 2023. In 2024 she released the eight-track live mini-album De Jiménez a Jiménez as a tribute to the legendary Mexican composer José Alfredo Jiménez.