▷ Biography of Alicia Villarreal ◁ Age, height, pack, husband, children

Who is Alicia Villarreal?

Alicia Martha Villarreal Esparza better known only as Alicia Villarreal is a famous Mexican singer and songwriter exponent of the grupero genre who has achieved musical successes such as ” You take advantage, Insensitive to you, Feelings, Ay papacito, Me without your love, The prince, Only with you , The mare was too big for you ”, among many more. Alicia Villarreal was born on August 31, 1974 in Monterrey, Nuevo León and is currently married since 2003 to Cruz Martínez with whom she had two children; Cruz Ángelo and Félix , plus Melenie Aideé  that she had with her ex-husband From her Arturo Carmona .

Biography of Alicia Villarreal

Beginnings in the life of Alicia Villarreal

Alicia Martha Villarreal Esparza was born in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León on August 31, 1974, known simply as Alicia Villarreal, she is a Mexican singer, songwriter and actress of the grupero genre, who in 1992 was the vocalist and image of Grupo Limit.

Alicia Villarreal is the daughter of Víctor Villarreal and Martha Esparza and is the eldest of five siblings. When she was sixteen years old, Alicia discovered that she wanted to be a professional singer, but since her father did not like the idea of ​​her, she chose to finish her high school studies. Soon after, her father ended up supporting her and she began singing with local groups at birthday parties, school graduations, anniversaries and small family gatherings.

Alicia Villarreal’s beginnings in music were thanks to a newspaper requesting a showgirl to record an album, so she decided to audition. Demonstrating her musical talent, she was left on lead vocals, rather than backing vocals; then her producer, Juan Barrón, introduced her to Grupo Taurus, which was a pleasant coincidence, because the members of that group turned out to be her neighbors, the curious thing is that she was unaware that they were professional musicians. With a contract with the PolyGram label, in 1993 the newly formed group with the voice of Alicia Villarreal began recording her first songs, which were intended to be included in her first record production.

After the death of its music producer, Alicia Villarreal, in a car accident, Grupo Taurus made him an offer; She proposed that they work together to consolidate a norteño music group, called the Youth Musical Organization. Later, that musical group would later become Grupo Límite .

Trajectory and history of Alicia Villarreal

Alicia Villarreal began her artistic career in a more exponential way in 1995 when, together with Gerardo Padilla, Sergio Ponce, Carlos Ramírez, Jesús Cantú and Luis Mario Garza, they transformed Taurus into Grupo Límite, a group that quickly achieved success and that, with its recording debut, he managed to sell more than 1 million copies of his first album.

Thanks to her image , Alicia Villarreal imposed a cowgirl style of dress and the use of braids among girls at the end of the nineties. Límite had successful concerts in large venues such as the National Auditorium and the Foro Sol in Mexico City, the Nile River in Guadalajara, the Expo-Guadalupe in Monterrey, the Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, the Houston Astrodome, the Expo-Liberia 99 in Costa Rica and the Mundo Latino Festival in Paris, France, in addition to making work tours of countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay.

For six years, Alicia Villarreal was the vocalist of Grupo Límite with which she recorded four record productions with the PolyGram label, which were so successful that they gained international projection. Those albums came out consecutively between 1995 and 1998 and were entitled “Por puro amor” (1995), “Partiéndome el alma” (1996), “Sentimientos” (1997) and “From heart to heart” (1998).

Subsequently, Alicia Villarreal began, together with Grupo Límite, to work with a new record label, Universal Music Group. With this support, in the year 2000 they recorded the album “Above all”, being the first single of that record production, “Acaríciame”, which was especially successful, it should be noted that this album was awarded a Latin Grammy, in the Best Group Album category.

In the middle of the year 2000, Alicia Villarreal made her debut as an actress on the big screen. She participated in the film ¿Y si te mueres?, with a script, production and direction by Abraham Marcos, filmed in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

A short time later, rumors began to spread in the media about the disintegration of the Limite group . Its members took it upon themselves to deny such gossip. However, the surprise was that in 2001, Alicia Villarreal would make public that she would leave the group and start her career as a soloist, dabbling in the ranch genre, having great acceptance with her first debut album “Soy lo prohibido”, from which his biggest solo hit: The mare was too big for you.

By contract, Alicia Villarreal had to work again for the last time with Límite in 2002 with the album “Soy Así” and later, inconstantly, she recorded three other productions as a soloist, each one in a different genre: Cuando el Corazón se Cruza ( 2004), Orgullo de Mujer (2006) and La jefa (2009), thus managing to place more than twenty singles in the Top 10 of the Regional Mexican Genre.

After celebrating 15 years of experience in 2010 , Alicia Villarreal disappeared from the stage and from the public scene due to the depression caused by the death of her brother and marital problems with her husband . She never stopped working but she limited herself to the media and it was not until 2013 when she reappeared on the small screen on the Mexican television station Azteca as a jury of La Academia Kids along with  Lolita Cortés  and  Luis Coronel ; later in 2014 she repeated her participation, also giving concerts in the Mexican Republic and the United States.

After her time on Television, in 2017 Alicia Villarreal took back the reins of music with a Primera Fila-type live album, which compiles her hits with the limit group and soloists: La Villarreal; album with which the star celebrates her trajectory of more than two decades, but thinking of making herself known to new audiences with the participation of María José , the Ha×Ash duet, El Dasa and Río Roma.

In later years and to remain in the music market, Alicia Villarreal released in 2019 the album “Lo más escuchado de…Alicia Villarreal”, a compilation of her best hits. Two years later, in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, he released the album “Lo más romántico de… Alicia Villarreal”, another compilation, which included songs like “Te aprovechas”, “Sentimientos” and “Besos y copas”.

In 2022 Alicia Villarreal returns to the small screen as a jury of the second version of the television program El Retador, a reality show on Televisa in Mexico and Univisión in the United States that seeks to find the most versatile and best talent and in which a group of participants imitate, sing and dance in order to win a grand prize at the end of the competition. In “El Retador” Alicia Villarreal shared credits with other big stars such as  Alicia Villarreal ,  Lupillo Rivera , La India Yuridia , Fonseca on the panel of judges and  Consuelo Duval  with  Sofía Escobosa  on the host.

Children and husband of Alicia Villarreal

In 1996, Alicia Villarreal began a sentimental relationship with former soccer player Arturo Carmona , who two years later formally married. In April 1999, her daughter Melanie Aideé Carmona Villarreal was born. However, in 2001, the couple decided to divorce, leaving on very bad terms. Even Alicia dedicated the theme to Arturo: The mare was too big for you.

At the beginning of 2002, Alicia Villarreal began dating the producer Cruz Martínez of the then Kumbia Kings group, shortly after, they got engaged and married in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. She was away from the music industry for a while, to dedicate herself to her family. From that union, Cruz Ángelo Martínez Villarreal was born in 2005, two years later, Félix Estefano Martínez Villarreal, her third child, came into the world. After questions from the press, Alicia Villarreal has made it clear more than once that like any couple she and her husband have gone through difficult times, however, they are still together and ask to ignore gossip.

Alicia Villarreal Pack

Although on social networks and the internet people search a lot for the Alicia Villarreal pack or photos in which she can be seen with little clothing or in sensual poses, the truth is that currently there is no Alicia Villarreal pack other than those photos that the artist has published on his own networks and that could be considered sexy.

How much is Alicia Villarreal’s fortune?

This is one of the questions that people ask the most about Alicia Villarreal and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Alicia Villarreal within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent they have and what they have done that he is among the great figures of the international show business.

Without a doubt, the career of this great star Alicia Villarreal will continue to rise and we will be attentive to everything that happens around her, so we invite you to stay on our page for the next updates that we will have in life, career, history and biography of Alicia Villarreal.