María Natalia Lafourcade Silva is a Mexican pop-rock and folk singer and songwriter who, since her debut in 2002, has been one of the most successful singers in Latin America. Lafourcade's voice has been categorized as a lyric soprano.
Julieta Venegas Percevault is an American-born Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who sings pop-rock-indie in Spanish. She went on to join several bands including Mexican ska band Tijuana No!. Venegas plays 17 instruments including acoustic guitar, accordion, and keyboard.
María Cecilia Suárez de Garay, known professionally as Cecilia Suárez, is a Mexican actress and a prominent activist working with the United Nations and European Union campaigning against femicide and violence against women. She has starred in film, television, and theater across the United States, Mexico, and Spain.
Laura Ana "Tita" Merello was an Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). In her 6 decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media. She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango. She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
Ximena Sariñana Rivera is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she received critical acclaim and a Grammy nomination for her debut album, Mediocre.
Maria Vilalta i Soteras was a Catalan-born Mexican playwright and a theatre director. Her plays have been translated, published and produced in numerous countries. She won the critic’s prize for the best play of the year ten times. In November 2010 she was awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the field of Linguistics and Literature, for her work which has national and international resonance. President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa gave her the award at Mexico's National Palace.
Pablo Iglesias Simón is a Spanish theatre director, playwright, researcher, sound designer, and professor.
Guadalupe Pineda is a Mexican singer considered one of Mexico's grassroots musical icons. She is a recipient of the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a multi-Latin Grammy nominee, she has released more than 30 albums during her career covering various styles of music with sales over 14 million copies worldwide. In 1984, she recorded her breakthrough hit "Yolanda", also known as "Te Amo", composed by Pablo Milanes, selling more than 1.5 million copies. She primarily sings in Spanish but has also sung in French, Italian, English, and Hebrew. She has been called the “Queen of Bolero”, but has also sung ballads, mariachi, tango, ranchera, and opera. Pineda has performed all over Mexico and in various countries in Europe and the Americas.
Tomás Parrá is a Mexican artist, cultural promoter and museum curator. His work has been noted with membership into Mexico Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Beatriz Zamora is a Mexican artist who is best known for her monochrome works in black. Although she has struggled commercially, her work has been recognized at various points in her career such as with membership in the Legion of Honor of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico.
Angelica Carrasco is a Mexican graphic artist who is a pioneer of large scale printmaking in the country. Her work often is related to violence and classified as “abstract neo-expressionism.” Much of her career has been dedicated to teaching and the promotion of the arts, especially the graphic arts and has been recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Jade Fraser is a Mexican actress, who first gained recognition for her role in the popular telenovela, Por Siempre mi Amor in 2013. Fraser has also participated in several television series and telenovelas in Mexico.
Ximena Cuevas is a Mexican video performance artist. Her works often explore the social and gender issues facing lesbians in Mexico. Cuevas's videos and films have screened at Sundance, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum,
Jaime Chabaud is a Mexican playwright, screenwriter, teacher and researcher, who has written more than 130 plays over his career but is popularly known for his television work. His creative work has been translated into multiple languages and has received numerous awards including the 2013 Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Drama Prize, the 2010 World Theater Prize from the University of Buenos Aires and 2006 Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda National Drama Prize. Chabaud is also the founder and director of the Paso de gato theater magazine.
María Luisa Mendoza, also known as La China Mendoza, was a Mexican journalist, novelist and politician. She served as a federal delegate from the state of Guanajuato to the 53rd Mexican legislature.
Patricia Paola Fernández Silanes, better known as Nona Fernández, is a Chilean actress, author, and screenwriter. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, and the Altazor prize.
Luz Jiménez Ormeño is a Chilean actress, theater director, and teacher who gained recognition for her performances in the roles of Maruja in the play Tres Marías y una Rosa (1979) and Kiki Blanche in the telenovela Bellas y audaces (1988). She has developed a career spanning 50 years, in which she gained popularity mainly as a theater and television actress.
La Shica is the pseudonym of Elsa Rovayo, a Spanish pop singer with flamenco, Spanish dance, and classical ballet training capable of approaching singing and dancing by drinking in the copla and mixing and fusing it with urban sounds such as hip-hop and rap. Andreu Buenafuente said of her that she was "the coplera 2.0", also saying that she is the coplera of the 21st century. She has shared the stage with artists such as Martirio, Bebe, Jorge Drexler, Pau Donés, Manuel Carrasco, and Rosendo. In 2011 she won two Premios de la Música as Artista Revelación and Autor Revelación.
Amaranta Osorio Cepeda is a playwright, actress and arts manager of Mexican, Colombian and Spanish descent. Her plays have won many awards, have been translated into French, English, German, Czech and Greek and have been performed all over the world. Alongside other women from the arts sector, she defends the role of women and their vision of the world through the medium of theatre.
Ruth Díaz Muriedas is a Spanish actress. She made a breakthrough performance in the 2016 film The Fury of a Patient Man.
