Flor Silvestre, singer and actress from the golden age of Mexican cinema, dies

The Mexican singer and actress Flor Silvestre, in the film 'Ánimas Trujano' (1962) .Azteca Films Inc.

The actress and singer Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla, better known as Flor Silvestre, died this Wednesday at the age of 90.

The artist's family, an icon of the golden age of Mexican cinema and the industry in the 1950s, has reported that she has died of natural causes at her El Soyate ranch, in Zacatecas.

The mother of musician Pepe Aguilar and partner of the late artist Antonio Aguilar, was a representative figure of cinema in her country and received the Diosa de Plata Especial award for career by the collective of Cinematographic Journalists of Mexico and by the National Association of Actors in recognition of his long career.

The family has reported the news through a statement and has indicated that fatigue "stopped her heart surrounded by her children and grandchildren" and that "she will rest next to whoever was her great love, Antonio Aguilar."

The co-star of

(1950) was the matriarch of a dynasty of artists that began with her and that, after going through the success of Pepe Aguilar in Latin music, continues with her granddaughter Ángela Aguilar, a successful Mexican music singer mariachi.

Silvestre began his career in music at the age of 13, when he got on stage to sing ranchera music at the Teatro del Pueblo del Mercado Abelardo L. Rodríguez in Mexico City.

His career took off shortly after when he won an amateur contest on the radio station XEW, known as La Voz de América Latina desde México.

In 1950 he made his film debut to act and sing in more than 50 films throughout his professional career.

It began with great titles from the golden age of Mexican cinema, when productions reached their peak throughout Latin America.

In the film

(1957), she had a starring role as the mother of Cantinflas's godson and two years later she played the young singer Lola in

where she sang a duet with María Félix, another notable Mexican actress.

In several titles of her filmography, she acted with her husband Antonio Aguilar, a representative pillar of ranchero films that narrate the revolutionary folklore of Mexico.

However, her most prominent role has been for playing Catalina in

(1962), the second Mexican film nominated for the Oscar for best foreign film.

In parallel, she sold millions of records and was awarded as one of the best-selling artists between 1965 and 1969.

Silvestre was very close to her land and had stated in several television interviews that it was her wish that her remains will rest in Zacatecas, the place where she was born, flourished and died.

“My house, I adore it.

I feel happy, I have not returned to Mexico [city] and I will not return.

As long as God has me here, I want to spend the rest of my life here, in the 'little hill' that is there, the crypt where my husband is, there I will be with him ”, she declared before the cameras.