About Yuridia
Yuridia won second place in the fourth season of La Academia, a popular Mexican reality show. Yuridia is the highest selling artist to come out of the reality show and most popular to this date.
At age 19, Yuridia had become one of the highest selling artists in Mexico. Her debut album sold over 1,500,000 copies, which makes Yuridia the highest selling female artist in the country since Thalía in the 90s, Beating out artists such as Luis Miguel, and Juan Gabriel. Her voice has earned her the nickname Voz de un Ángel (Voice of an Angel), leading to her debut album’s title La Voz de un Ángel. This album has been certified 2x Diamond and 3x Platinum + Gold.
Habla El Corazón
On December 5, 2006 Sony BMG released Yuridia’s second album, Habla El Corazón, as well as the first single “Como Yo Nadie Te Ha Amado”, a cover of the Spanish version of Bon Jovi’s “This Ain’t a Love Song”. The second and last single was Yuridia’s cover for Roxette’s Listen to Your Heart Spanish cover, Habla El Corazon. The album includes Spanish covers of well-known songs from artists such as Bonnie Tyler, and The Police. The album sold 660,000 copies worldwide, and was certified 3x Platinum + Gold.
To this date, both the album and the single are Yuridia’s most successful in the United States. The album debuted at 15 and peaked at #14, while the single peaked on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks chart at 16. Her second single has managed to do what her previous second single did not, enter the HLT chart and has peaked at number 44.
Entre Mariposas
Yuridia’s third solo album, Entre Mariposas, was released on November 15, 2007 in Mexico. The first single from the album was “Ahora Entendí”, written by her and Camila’s Mario Domm. The following single is Yo Por El. It peaked at #1 in Mexico and in Central America. The third and last single is En Su Lugar, it debuted at #16, finally topping the #4 spot. The album, produced by Javier Calderón, quickly garnered major sales and has already been certified Gold for selling 50,000 copies within the first day of its release. It has also been certified 4x Platinum + Gold for a total of 650,000 copies worldwide.
She has been nominated for awards such as, Latin Grammy, Premios Juventud Latin Billboard OYE awards and Lo Nuestro music awards.
The Future
On April 26, 2007, Yuridia won a Latin Billboard Award for Best Pop Female Album.
In early May 2007, Yuridia also received four nominations for the Premios Juventud. She was nominated for Best Artist, Best Album, Catchiest Song and Most Heart-Breaking Song.
By the end of 2008, Yuridia won a Premios Oye award as the best Female Artist of the year.
In 2009 she also had three nominations for (Lo nuestro Music awards) “Best Artist”, “Best Album” (Entre Mariposas), and “Catchiest Song”(Ahora entendi).
On September 30, 2009, she released her fourth studio album, Nada es Color de Rosa. The producer, Ettore Grenci, composed most songs, hand in hand with the singer, who also is author of two songs in the CD, including Un Paso Mas and Todas Las Noches, a duet with the Italian group Sonohra.Nada es Color de Rosa debuted at #1 on the Mexico Top 100 with first week sales of 45,000 units sold. This album has sold 120,000 copies worldwide and has been certified Platinum + Gold. The first single is Irremediable, the #5 Top Song in Mexico.
The second single is Me Olvidaras, which has topped the Top 10 songs, peaking at #6. Contigo is the third official single, and was on the Top Monitor Latino, peaking at #23. The fourth and last single from Nada es Color de Rosa was No Me Preguntes Mas, which has been her most successful inedited single to date, peaking at #2 on the Top 20 Mexican Airplay Chart.