LetsSingIt the internet lyrics database
en
1
picture

Paty Cantú

0
/ 5
New content available, review now!
Artist info:
Also known as
Verified yes
Rank
Albums3
Songs71
AboutPatricia Giovanna Cantú Velasco (born November 25, 1983), known professionally as Paty Cantú is a Mexican singer-songwriter and occasional actress, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful Mexican pop duo Lu.

Born in Houston, Texas but moving to Guadalajara, Mexico when she was a child. At the age of 16, Cantú was drawn to entertaining people; she started taking lessons of guitar and bass and leaving Law School.

Paty Cantú became a member of the Mexican pop group Lu which were a MTV Latin America-nominated created alongside Mario Sandoval. The group rose to fame with hits like Por Besarte, Una Confusión and La Vida Después de Ti and being certified gold and platinum for both records in Mexico and USA. Their self-titled debut album released in 2004, which was produced by Aureo Baqueiro, producer of artists like Natalia Lafourcade, Sin Bandera, Kabah, and Moenia, had success in Mexico and Brazil in which enjoyed success because they and their song "Por Besarte" were featured on Rebelde. Her song-writing skills were shown in the track "Sé" and writing songs for Lola and Alejandra Guzmán. After various reeditions from their first album, and a somophore one called "Álbum", it was announced on August 27, 2007 that Mario and Paty parted ways due to artistic ideas, giving their last concert on October in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

After the split, Paty started to write songs for her debut album, having 54 songs before selecting the final 10. In 2008, she was featured in Motel's hit "Dos Palabras" which was released in August 12 and appeared in the reedition from their somophore album 17 Bis. After that, Paty Cantú debuted as a solo artist on October 17 as an opening act for Mexican singer Aleks Syntek, making this her start as a successful solo singer. In November 2008, Paty Cantú released her first single "Déjame Ir" which reached Top 10 in the Mexican Radio Airplay proving an instant hit and the video was premiered in MTV on November 18. Her album "Me Quedo Sola" was released on January 27, 2009 under EMI composed of 10 songs, 9 written by her and 1 written by Billy Mendez from Motel. In only three days of sales, Me Quedo Sola debuted at #8 in "Lo Mas Vendido" in Mixup and after a week, the album reached #1. However in the Mexico Main Top 100 Albums Chart reached #2, just under Vicente Fernández.

"No Fue Suficiente", her second single was released on February 21 and its video inspired by Tim Burton[6] was produced by Esteban Madrazo and debuted in "Los 10+ Pedidos" of MTV. She started to write songs for Alejandro Fernández, Dulce María's debut album as well as upcoming greatest hits from Alejandra Guzmán.

In August, 2009 it was announced that Paty Cantú will participate in the movie Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure as part of the soundtrack with the song Historia Ancestral, which will be released in September 4, 2009. She also annouced in her MySpace that her debut album will have a reedition which include new tracks like Muñeca de Papel written by Billy from Motel, Casi Divas featuring Alfonso Pichardo, lead singer from Moenia and Mi Amor Destruye featuring Ballesteros.

Paty Cantú was nominated for Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009 in two categories, one alongside her former mate Mario Sandoval and his group Sandoval. On September 29, Paty Cantú received two nominations for Premios Oye!, the mexican Grammy Awards for Breakthrough Of The Year alongside Alexander Acha, Beto Cuevas, Tush and Victor & Leo and Best Female Solo competing against colombian Fanny Lu, italian singer Laura Pausini and connationals María José and Natalia Lafourcade.

Paty Cantú appeared as a musical guest in Rebelde, in the 2nd season of El Show de los Sueños and in Verano de Amor starred by Dulce María but her acting debut will be in the 3rd season of the Mexican series El Pantera as the character of María a car thief which will be involved as a love interest of El Pantera.


Source: Wikipedia.org





Most Popular Songs (More)

Most Popular Albums (More)

Artists you may also like

Similar genre
Popular on LetsSingIt
New on LetsSingIt
show more artists with similar genre
show this week's top 1000 most popular artists
show all recently added artists

Pictures (13)

Paty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty CantúPaty Cantú

Fans (0)

no fans

Contributors

leaderboard
activity

Comments (2)