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Artist
Carmita Jiménez
12+ albums
puerto ricolatin
about
Carmita Jimenez started her singing career at the young age of six, on the radio show named El Abuelito Welch (Grandpa Welch) with another legendary Puerto Rican show business legend, Jose 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, and then she released her first album, which contained the hit Tierra Rica (Rich Earth). 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 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. After she returned to Puerto Rico in 1968, she landed her own section on WAPA-TV’s popular lunch-time show El Show Del Mediodia. During the 1970s, Carmita became a part of the Disco Music movement in her country, and had the number one hit La Generacion De Hoy (Today’s Generation), produced by Alfred D. Herger, which was followed by La Vida En Rosa (Life In Pink), a song which was later a hit in English too, Grace Jones performing the English version. Jimenez began b
