Born in Mexico City, Mexico on April 23 1972, Patricia Manterola is a multi-talented star of the music world and the small screen. Famed as an actress, she appeared in Annie aged 9 and attained her first significant acting role in telenovela Acapulco, Cuerpo Y Alma in 1995. She has appeared in numerous other TV shows and movies, including Angeles; the Spanish-language version of Charlie's Angels. As a Latin pop star, Manterola began laying the foundations for her music career in 1989, joining Mexico city-based 1990s group Garibaldi, a pop band who enmeshed the modern with the traditional. Manterola quit the group in 1994 and released her debut solo effort, Hambre de Amor, that same year. She accrued seven more albums throughout the 1990s and 2000s, including 1998's Quiero Mas – simmering with pop-rock flavors – and 2002's Que el Ritmo No Pare, which featured her first songs in English and spawned three sporting-related triumphs; the title track having soundtracked both the 2002 Cycling Tour of Spain and the 2002 theme song for the FIFA World Cup Korea - Japan. An English-language version of the track, "The Rhythm", was also used as the theme song for the Formula 1 Race: Grand Prix of Europe. Manterola released her seventh studio album, Ya Terminé, in 2009.
