Thalía - Early Life

Early Life

Thalía was born on August 26, 1971 in Mexico City, Mexico. She is the daughter of Ernesto Sodi Pallares, who was a scientist, doctor of pathology, criminologist and writer, and Yolanda Miranda Mange, who was a painter and Thalía's manager from 1980 to 1999. Thalía is the youngest of five daughters. She has four sisters, Laura Zapata (daughter of Guillermo Zapata Pérez de Utrera), Federica, Gabriela and Ernestina Sodi.

When she turned one year old, Thalía appeared in a commercial for Mexican television. When she was 4, she began to attend ballet and piano classes in the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico. In 1977, Thalía's father died, as he was affected by diabetes when Thalía was only six years old at the time. Many years later, the singer recognized that her father's death traumatized her dramatically, and that she didn't talk to anyone for a whole year. This leaded to her suffering under serious childhood disintegrative disorder, which belongs to a series of developmental disorders caused by autism spectrum. In order to deal with this, her mother brought her to many psychologists.

Thalía gained her primary education in the "Liceo Franco Mexicano", where she attended a bilingual curriculum, having the ability to learn how to speak fluently both French and Spanish at a very young age. In 1976, a year before her father's death, she appeared in the Mexican movie La guerra de los pasteles ("The war of the cakes"), although her name doesn't appear in the film credits. As Thalía was also practicing various sports during her infancy, she was inspired by Romanian record-setting athlete Nadia Comaneci. Nadia's record influenced Thalía to have the desire to follow a career in entertainment. Her major sister, Laura Zapata, was also a singer and she used to take Thalía with her at the theatre, when she was a child. This motivated her to passionately embrace and connect with acting at a very young age.