The music world mourns the loss of beloved Mexican singer and film icon, Flor Silvestre
The matriarch of the Aguilar Dynasty passed away this past Wednesday.
Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla, professionally known as Flor Silvestre, was born on August 16, 1930 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico to Jesús Jiménez Cervantes and María de Jesús Chabolla Peña. She was one of Mexico’s most prominent and successful singers, a professional equestrienne, and a world renowned actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
In the early years of her career, Silvestre gained the attention of Mexico's most popular radio station, XEW, known as "the voice of Latin America from Mexico". This landed a contract to sing at el Teatro Colonial, one of Mexico’s most popular theatres in the 1940s. The rest is history.
The Mexican cinema & ranchera music legend would later wed her late husband, Antonio Aguilar (a music legend himself) in 1959. The pair shared the spotlight while maintaining equally successful and separate careers. However, they frequently worked together in films and music until Antonio Aguilar’s retirement from the entertainment industry in 2005.
Silvestre and Antonio’s legacy lives on through their sons, Antonio Jr. and Pepe Aguilar, both of which have prominent musical careers of their own. The Aguilar Dynasty proves to be fruitful with Pepe Aguilar’s children, Leonardo and Angela, pursuing the family business as the new generation.
Silvestre died on November 25th at the age of 90 due to natural causes at her home in Zacatecas, Mexico.
“She left the joy of bearing witness to beauty that thinks and speaks.”
- Pepe Aguilar , via his Instagram post
Rest in Power.
