Guadalupe Contreras Ramos, known professionally as Lupita D'Alessio, was born on
March 10, 1954, in Mexico. She started her career with her father Poncho
D'Alessio's musical show La Familia D'Alessio and achieved a breakthrough in
1971 with the single "Mi Corazón es un Gitano", which won the Sanremo Music
Festival. D'Alessio performed the theme song for the telenovela Mundo de juguete
and was cast in various productions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1978, she
won the Mexican national final to select the country's entrant for the OTI
Festival with "Como tú" (Just like you), s...