Ximena Sarinana
Ximena is the daughter of Fernando Sariñana and screenwriter Carolina Rivera, niece of famous Mexican actress Angélica Rivera and producer José Alberto Castro, brother of Verónica Castro. She is also the girlfriend of guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López of the American progressive rock band, The Mars Volta.
Career
Telenovelas
Before her musical career, Ximena acted in telenovelas—Latin-American soap operas.
She started acting in telenovelas in 1996 in the telenovela Luz Clarita, starring Daniela Luján as the main character, Luz Clarita. The following year, Sariñana acted in the telenovela María Isabel as Rosa Isela, with Adela Noriega as the main character, María Isabel.
Other important movies in which she acted were as Ximena in the 2001 film El Segundo Aire (English: A Second Chance); Mariana in Amar te duele (English: Love Hurts); Valetina in Niñas Mal (English: Bad Girls), all of which were directed by her father and written by her mother. Dos abrazos won Sariñana an award for Best Female Actress at the thirty-eighth Diosas de Plata of Pecime awards.
Music
Sariñana's first experience in the music industry came in 1996, when she sang the theme song to the Mexican telenovela Luz Clarita at eight years old.
At seventeen, she composed three songs for the soundtrack of the Mexican movie Amar te duele. She went on to be part of the band Feliz No Cumpleaños (English: Happy Not-Birthday), a Mexican funk-jazz, pop-rock band.
She captivated the audience on a television by performing "El Triste" (English: The Sad One), originally performed by José José.
Her first solo album Mediocre was released on February 12, 2008 by Warner Music Group. The album debuted on the México Top 100 Album charts at #19 and in five weeks, the album reached #2, just second to Vicente Fernández's 2007 album Para siempre.
On March 28, 2008, Mediocre was certified gold by AMPROFON—The Mexican Association of Producers of Phonograms and Videograms—for selling more than 50,000 copies.
"Vidas paralelas" (English: "Parallel Lives") was a success, having a lot of airplay in Mexico. "Vidas paralelas" charted at #9 on the México Top 100 singles chart and number-one on the Los 40 Principales singles chart .
The video for "Vidas paralelas" was shot in Iceland and directed by Pablo Dávila. It was released on MTV Mexico in late 2007 and had at the beginning a little airplay but after the single was released on radios, the video obtain a huge airplay debuting at the Top 20 of MTV chart and reaching #1 on May 31, 2008.
In late June, Metronomy stated that were fascinated with Ximena's debut album Mediocre and the group produced a remix of one of the tracks of Ximena Sariñana's album which is called "La tina".