Evolving from a pop starlet into a provocative, blonde bombshell, soul-searching
balladeer and a praise-singing, gospel worshipper, Latin pop queen Yuri endures
as a Mexican superstar diva decades after bursting on to the music scene in the
late 1970s.
Born in the old port city of Veracruz on the east-central coast of Mexico, Yuri
was a talented ballet dancer in her youth and was offered a scholarship at the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, but when her parents stopped her from going she
instead formed a band called Yuri y La Manzana Electrica and cut her teeth
playing at local fi...