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Her more than year career [ 4 ] included stage productions, radio programs, records, films, television programs, comics and rodeo shows. Famed for her melodious voice and unique singing style, hence the nicknames " La Sentimental " "The Sentimental One" and " La Voz Que Acaricia " "The Voice That Caresses" , Flor Silvestre was a notable interpreter of the ranchera , bolero , bolero ranchero, and huapango genres.

Flor Silvestre appeared in more than seventy films between and Beautiful and statuesque, she became one of the leading stars of the "golden age" of the Mexican film industry. She played opposite famous comedians, such as Cantinflas in El bolero de Raquel Silvestre died on 25 November at her home in Villanueva, Zacatecas. Guillermina was raised in Salamanca and began singing at an early age.

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Her parents, who were also fond of singing, encouraged her to sing. Her mother, who wanted to live in Mexico City , urged her father to sell all their property in Salmanca and relocate the family to the Mexican capital. She and her father attended a performance of the famous Mariachi Pulido at the Teatro del Pueblo, a theater located in the Abelardo L.

After the performance was over, she got up on stage and told the stage director that she wanted to sing. The play was also broadcast by Mexico's national radio station, XEFO , [ 12 ] and "La soldadera" became the first song she performed on radio.

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The title of the song, which is Spanish for "the female soldier", also became her first stage name until it was claimed by another singer. Under her new stage name, Flor Silvestre won first place in an amateur contest sponsored by Mexico's most popular radio station, XEW , known as "the voice of Latin America from Mexico". The Guadalajara newspaper El Informador described her as "Flor Silvestre, young XEW singer, who represents the feeling of our land within the ranchera song".