![]() ![]() During the TV y Novelas Award ceremony she fled with Fernando Iriarte, the son of the television personality Maxine Woodside. ![]() In 1985, Yuri signed a contract with EMI to record the album, Yo Te Pido Amor, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance and included the hits "Dejala" and "Dame un Beso". She won the national competition to represent Mexico at the International Festival OTI, but she came in third place in the category of "Best Female Singer". Yuri decided to participate in Festival OTI for a third time and sang "Tiempos Mejores" by Sergio Andrade. Her fifth album, Karma Kamaleón was a hit that dominated the music charts in Latin America. ![]() In 1983, Yuri continued to prevail in the Latin entertainment industry with a popular fourth album, Yuri, Te Amo, Te Amo and her second movie, Rapto en Acapulco.ġ984 was a particularly successful year for Yuri. She won the award "Antorcha de plata", the first female Mexican singer to receive this award. She was later invited to the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar in Chile. It sold a million copies in the first year. In the same year, she recorded a single, "El Pequeño Panda De Chapultepec", dedicated to Tohui, one of the first pandas born in captivity in Mexico. In 1982, Yuri recorded her third album and her first gold record in Latin America and Spain, Llena de Dulzura, with the hits "Mi Timidez", "Llena de Dulzura", "Tú y Yo", "Este Amor Ya No Se Toca" and "Maldita Primavera" (the Spanish version of the song "Maledetta Primavera" by the Italian singer Loretta Goggi). In 1981, she sang the song "Deja" by José María Napoleón in the Festival OTI, being placed third in the category of "The Best Female Singer". "Primer Amor", "Goma de Mascar" and "Regresarás" are the most popular songs in Latin America. Shortly after recording her second album, Yuri embarked on an international concert tour in Central and South America, the Caribbean and the United States. This album gave Yuri her first hit, "Esperanzas", and helped her to appear in the Mexican soap operas Colorina and Veronica. The new award convinced the executive producer, Julio Jaramillo, to record a second album titled Yuri. During the competition, the judge panel decided, unanimously, that she be awarded the "Award for the Best New Female Artist". In 1979, Yuri represented Mexico in Festival OTI she was disqualified because the song she sang, "Siempre Hay un Mañana" by Irasema, was seen as plagiarism "McArthur Park" sung by Donna Summer. Later that year she co-hosted with Cepillín on the TV show, En Familia con Chabelo. In the same year, she obtained a role in the movie Milagro en el circo. The title track was a cover of the Debby Boone smash hit "You Light Up My Life". Yuri's first album, Tú Iluminas Mi Vida, was released on Gamma Records in 1978. Her mother was an effective manager and had to fight the record executives to fulfill their verbal contract with her daughter. At first, they struggled economically until Yuri finally started recording her first album. Once they arrived in Mexico City, her mother became her manager. In the mid-1970s, she and her mother left the rest of the family in Veracruz to pursue a record deal in Mexico City without her father's consent or economic support. Her father wanted her to pursue a college degree, and her mother, convinced of Yuri's talent and charisma, supported her artistic endeavor. Her parents had an altercation over the future of their younger daughter. Julio Jaramillo proposed a record deal, and urged her to move to Mexico City. During another performance, Julio Jaramillo, an executive producer from the recording studio Gamma, discovered her talent as a singer. The band played at fiestas and important festivals around the city of Veracruz at one of these festivals she had the opportunity to sing with Celia Cruz. A few years later, her mother in compensation allowed her to join a garage band in Veracruz called Yuri y La Manzana Eléctrica. However, due to her age and the prospect of having their young daughter living in a foreign country her parents declined. During her childhood she studied ballet at age nine she received a scholarship to study ballet at the famous Bolshoi in Moscow, Russia. Born to Carlos Humberto Valenzuela Priego (died 2007), a medical doctor, and Dulce Canseco, she was the youngest of three one brother, Carlos Valenzuela Canseco, and sister, Yamili Valenzuela Canseco. ![]()
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