Juana Molina

The daughter of tango singer Horacio Molina and actress Elva "Chunchuna" Villafañe, Juana was immersed in the arts from a young age and began playing guitar at the age of five. She actually made her first recorded appearance as a child alongside her father in 1967, singing the song "Te regalo esta canción" as a Mother's Day gift to her mother. Her father secretly released it as a single and it became a hit, selling 45,000 copies. In the late '70s, her family fled to Paris for several years to escape the military dictatorship in Argentina. Her time in France would prove to be influential in her music. Although she considered music to be her initial focus, Molina was a natural performer with a gift for doing impressions. Beginning in the late '80s, she appeared in a series of sketch comedy shows before eventually starring in her own, Juana y sus hermanas, which became a major syndicated hit throughout South America in the early '90s. Within a few years she'd become Argentina's most popular comedian, even if music remained her first love. After taking a break from the show to give birth to her daughter, she chose to cancel her television show in 1994 and instead launch a music career.

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