Sasha Sokol
| Sasha Sökol | |
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Sasha Sokol in 2007.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Sasha Marianne Sökol-Cuillery |
| Born | 17 June 1970 |
| Origin | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Genres |
Latin pop Alternative music Rancheras Folk |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Labels | Fonovisa Records, Sony Music Entertainment, V2 Records, OCESA Seitrack |
| Website | [1] |
Sasha Sökol (born Sasha Marianne Sökol-Cuillery on 17 June 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican singer, composer, actress and TV host.
When Sökol was still a toddler, her parents (Michael "Happy" Sökol and Magdalena Cuillery) divorced and her mother married Fernando Diez Barroso, an executive at Televisa. As a child, she was known as Sasha Diez Barroso, but now goes by her paternal name, Sökol. She studied at the Colegio Peterson and later at the Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) of Televisa. At that time, the music and television producer Luis de Llano Macedo was seeking to create a Mexican version of the band Parchís, and Sökol held castings at the CEA.
Sökol has one brother named Michel Sokol Cuilleri and two sisters, Alexandra and Ximena Diez Barroso.
Sökol was selected as one of the original seven members and that is how she started her singing career in 1982. Sökol recorded seven albums with Timbiriche, which earned 25 gold albums and ten platinum albums. Timbiriche earned awards from El Heraldo and the TVyNovelas Awards. In 1984, with Timbiriche, Sökol participated in Vaselina as Sandy, the Spanish-language version of Grease. In 1986, she left Timbiriche and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. to continue her acting studies.
In 1986, Sökol enrolled at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts. The following year, she released her first solo album, Sasha, which sold over a million copies in Mexico, making it one of Mexico's best-selling albums in 1987. Her first single was "No Me Extraña Nada", which was released with a music video. She was nicknamed "La Dama de Negro" (The Lady in Black) for her habit of dressing in said color. The biggest hit of the album was "Rueda Mi Mente", which peaked at number one on Mexican radio and remained there for several weeks. Sökol made her television solo debut in Siempre En Domingo, the biggest variety show in Ibero-America at the time.
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