![]() Many Mexican children drop out after sixth grade to work, but Trevi didn’t even need an after-school job she went to piano lessons and acting class instead. Gloria de Los Angeles Treviño Ruiz was born in the city of Monterrey on February 15th, 1970, the first daughter of a well-off architect. She’d probably still have something witty and trenchant to say about sex, the media and society, if only she weren’t locked away in a Brazilian jail cell. As her conservative detractors predicted, her brazen ways seem to have led her to perdition. Now she’s Mexico’s most exciting villain. For a time, Gloria Trevi was Mexico’s most exciting social critic. She was even taken quasi-seriously as a potential presidential candidate. She also made movies and appeared on TV, where she delivered brash pronouncements on everything from abortion to the Zapatistas. Trevi was primarily a pop star, singing of love and insubordination in a way no Mexican ever had. ![]() She was Mexico’s first public teenager - defiant, moody and powerfully sexual in the way James Dean and Elvis were in the Fifties.
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