Dora María Pérez Vidal, born August 30, 1933 in Tamulté de las Barrancas, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, was a celebrated Mexican singer known by her stage name Dora María and her nickname La Chaparrita de Oro. At nine years old, she won a local singing contest in Tabasco and later won a competition broadcast on the radio station XEB, launching her professional career. She recorded nearly one thousand records, performing hits such as “Leña de pirul”, “Pénjamo”, “María Chuchena”, “La Estrellita del sur”, “El Aguijón”, and “Quinto al piano”. She became the first Mexican vocalist to perform in Las Vegas and at the Lido in Paris, sharing stages with Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich, and was named Mexico's music ambassador by President Adolfo López Mateos. To gain further exposure, she appeared performing musical acts in six films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, which include Camino del infierno (1951), Desnúdate, Lucrecia (1958), Mi niño, mi caballo y yo (1959), Luciano Romero (1960), El rayo de Jalisco (1962), and La máscara roja (1962). She died on June 4, 2023 in Tabasco at the age of 89.
