She was born into a Mexican family of mixed Spanish-Chinese-Japanese ancestry. She first sang on the stage when she was six, when she sang Regalo A Dios by Jose Alfredo Jimenez. She moved to Tijuana, Baja California, where she studied accounting. When she was 22 years old she recorded her first song entitled Comprendeme in 1977. In 2006, she received the Premio lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina for "Premio a la Excelencia".