• Ana Guadalupe Araujo Yong, professionally known equally Ana Gabriel, is a Mexican vocaliser-songwriter and actress, born in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico in 195•
• She has released xx studio albums and has achieved success in mariachi, popular, and Latin pop genres.
• She has 4 acting credits, and has been featured in numerous documentaries.
• She is believed to have dated Mexican actress and vocaliser Veronica Castro in the '90s and currently identifies equally asexual.
• She has an estimated net worth of over $10 million.

Who is Ana Gabriel?

Ana Guadalupe Araujo Yong, known better by her professional proper name Ana Gabriel, was born in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico, on ten December 1955 – her zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and she holds Mexican nationality. She's a singer-songwriter and actress, who'south released twenty studio albums, and has succeeded in three music genres: mariachi, popular and Latin pop.

Early on life and education

Ana was raised in Guamuchil alongside her sister Martha Laura, by their father Ramon Araujo and their mother Isabel Immature; non a lot is known about Ana's family, because she respects their privacy, but information technology's known that her father died in 2006, and that her sister lost her battle confronting colon cancer in July 2007.

Ana was v years old when she became interested in singing, and her parents thus paid for her to be taught to sing and play instruments at a local school. She was only six years old when she performed on stage for the first time, singing Jose Alfredo Jimenez' song "Regalo a Dios". Ana studied at a local high school in Guamuchil, and was interested in a couple of activities during her fourth dimension in that location, including dancing, acting with the school's drama lodge, and practicing creative writing.

Ana moved to Tijuana, Baja California, United mexican states upon matriculating in 1974, and enrolled at a college from which she matriculated with a Bachelor'southward degree in accounting in 1977; the same yr saw the release of her debut single "Comprendeme".

Career every bit a vocalist

Ana performed around Mexico in the following a couple of years, and released her debut album "Un Estilo" in 1985, followed by "Sagitario" in 1986. The year 1987 saw her travel to Lisbon, Portugal to compete at the Oti Festival; Ana sang the orchestral version of the vocal "Ay Amor", and won 3rd place.

Ana gained recognition in 1988, when her album "Tierra de Nadie" was released, and the post-obit year saw the release of her album "Quien Como Tu", which became a hit, and made Ana popular in Mexico.

Ana released an anthology in every year during the '90s, with the exception of 1998; some of the nigh pop amongst these were the 1994 "Ayer y Hoy", the 1995 "Joyas de Dos Siglos", and the 1997 "Con united nations Mismo Corazon".

In 2000, Ana released her album "Eternamente", which was total of mariachi love ballads, and featured merely Ana singing and playing the guitar. She released 5 other albums in the 2000s, including the 2003 "Dulce y Salado", the 2004 "Tradicional" and the 2009 "Renacer… Homenaje a Lucha Villa".

Ana and so didn't release whatsoever new music until 2020, when her new and almost contempo album "Por Amor a Ustedes" came out.

Awards and nominations

Ana was nominated for a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance, for her album "Quien Como Tu", also every bit for four Latin Grammy Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2008.

Between 1989 and 2006, Ana was nominated for 29 Lo Nuestro Awards, winning 13; some of these wins were for the 1990 Popular Anthology of the Yr, for "Tierra de Nadie", a 1993 All-time Popular Female Artist, and a 2006 Excellence Award.

On 3 Nov 2021, Ana received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Acting career

Ana has four acting credits; she made her debut film appearance in the 1995 crime horror mystery "The Nature of the Beast", written and directed by Victor Salva, and which starred Eric Roberts, Lance Henriksen and Brion James. It follows two people with deadly secrets, who take gone on a killing rampage in a desert.

Ana made her debut Television series advent with her portrayal of Nurse in the 1998 episode "Caroline and the Secret Bullfighter: Part 2" of the romantic one-act "Caroline in the Metropolis".

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It was created past Fred Barron and Marco Pennette, starred Lea Thompson, Malcolm Gets and Amy Pietz, and follows the successful cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who's living in Manhattan, New York City, and occasionally puts her friends in her comics; the series won six awards, including a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Graphic Blueprint and Title Sequences, while information technology was nominated for five other awards.

The yr 1999 saw Ana play Reporter in the popular drama moving-picture show "The Deep Cease of the Bounding main", directed past Ulu Grosbard, and which starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Care for Williams and Whoopi Goldberg. Information technology follows a family unit whose son Ben has been kidnapped, while he'south only found nine years after; the moving picture won three of the 5 awards for which information technology was nominated.

Ana's but other acting credit has been her portrayal of Ms. Ramirez in the 2017 episode "Sex, Lies, and Commercials" of the comedy serial "Ned and Stacey", created by Michael J. Weithorn, and which starred Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing and Greg Germann. It follows two people who have married afterward having known each other for just a week.

Other credits

Ana has been featured in numerous documentaries, including the 2005 film "Selena Ivive!, Acceso Total", the 2016 mini-series "American Epic", and the 2017 series "Arena".

Ana has made a guest appearance in many talk-shows, such as "Viendonos", "Viva el Lunes" and "Noche de Fiesta".

Beloved life and relationships

Ana prefers to keep the details of her beloved life to herself, although she has revealed to exist asexual, meaning that she has low to no involvement in sexual activeness.

There are still some rumors circulating the cyberspace concerning her past and nowadays relationships, and her sexual orientation.

It's believed past some of her fans that she was in a human relationship with Veronica Castro in the '90s, significant that Ana is either bisexual or lesbian. Veronica's a famous Mexican actress and vocalizer, and information technology'due south said that the two women were together for around a year.

Between 2009 and 2011, Veronica was in a relationship with Hugo Sanchez, a Mexican one-time soccer player and managing director, and there were rumors circulating the cyberspace claiming that they were planning to marry, but these haven't been confirmed.

Ana has an adoptive daughter Diana Alejandra Araujo, who's today a married woman: she exchanged vows with Miguel Coronel in November 2019.

Equally of March 2022, Ana seems to be single, hasn't married and doesn't have biological children.

Hobbies and other interests

Ana is highly active on Instagram, and apparently enjoys the attending which she'south receiving from her close to million followers; there are more than one,300 pictures and videos uploaded onto Ana'south Instagram account, almost of which are to promote her concerts.

Ana loves to travel, and her career has taken her all around the world. She generally enjoys performing in the US and Europe, while her dream travel destination is Barcelona, Espana.

Ana is a huge dog-lover, and her pet dog can be seen featured in some of her Instagram pictures.

Ana is a philanthropist, and has donated money to several animal shelters, and clemency organizations.

Ana likes to lookout man Hollywood movies in her spare time – her favorite actors and actresses are Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney and Angelina Jolie, while a couple of her favorite films include "Titanic", "Catch Me If You Can" and "Mr. and Mrs Smith".

Age, height and net worth

Ana'south age is 66. She has long brown pilus and brown eyes, her meridian is 5ft 5ins (1.65m) and she weighs around 145lbs (65kgs).

Every bit of March 2022, her net worth has been estimated at more $x million.