Carmita Jimenez

Carmen Lydia Jiménez, better known as Carmita, was a Puerto Rican singer who was considered a diva in Puerto Rico. She was born in San Lorenzo. Carmita Jiménez started her singing career at the young age of six, on the radio show named El Abuelito Welch with another legendary Puerto Rican show business legend, José Miguel Agrelot. This show, as its name suggested, was sponsored by the Welch's grape juice brand. At 15, Jimenez performed the Habanera from Bizet's opera Carmen. Soon after, she joined popular music groups like the Moncho Usera orchestra. She released her first album, which contained the hit Tierra Rica referencing Puerto Rico, where she was born. During the 1960s, Jimenez became a popular fixture on Puerto Rico's television and enjoyed great renown. She decided then that it was time to internationalize her career and moved to Peru in 1961, to promote herself in South America. Her stay in Peru, which lasted until 1968, made her very popular among the citizens of that country too. There she gave birth to her only daughter, María Nahíma, who as her mother, began singing professionally since a child. Carmita kept on releasing albums and scoring more hits. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmita...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)