Spanish pop star María Isabel was born María Isabel López Rodriguez in Andalusia, Spain in 1995, and took an immediate interest in both singing and dancing. In 2004, she won that year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest (after having won the Spanish one) with "Antes Muerta Que Sentilla," a track that was also included on her 2005 debut album, No Me Toques las Palmas Que Me Conozco. The LP did well enough in Spain to be released in Latin America, where it also found a fair amount of success. Isabel's sophomore full-length, Numero 2, followed that same year. In 2006, she released her third record, Capricornio, in the form a double-disc set that included a DVD featuring her music videos and various extras. The next year Isabel was cast and starred in a feature length film, Ángeles S.A., and also performed the entire soundtrack. Both the film and soundtrack were hugely popular in her native Spain, where the album reached number one in the chart and eventually went platinum. Isabel spent much of the early 2010s in school, but returned with a pair of albums, De Pie in 2014 and Yo Decido one year later, as well as the single "Tu Mirada" in 2019. ~ Marisa Brown