Fey (singer)

Fey (born María Fernanda Blázquez Gil in Mexico City, July 21, 1973) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop artist that became a pop teen idol for Latin America in the mid-1990s.

Biography

The niece of Argentine pop duo Gloria y Noemi Gil; Las Hermanas Gil, Fey has been involved with the music industry since she was a child. Fey became well known in Latin America with her debut album, Fey. It was her next album, however, Tierna La Noche which brought her to worldwide fame.

Fey has sold over 20 million records worldwide, most of them produced by José Ramón Florez. Fey's self-titled debut was released in America in 1995, followed one year later by Tierna La Noche.

She currently has one daughter named Isabella. She is a vegetarian.

History

The 1990s and the Fey-Mania

Fey released her first album, titled Fey, in 1995, on the Sony Music Mexico record label. Within a couple of months of the album's release, Fey had scored several hits in her native Mexico, and had reached #1 with "Media naranja", "Gatos en el balcon", "Me enamoro de ti" and "La noche se mueve". Fey also had a massive tour in Mexico, including consecutive concerts in the Teatro Metropolitan, one of Mexico's well-known auditoriums, and all of Latin America, and reached Gold status sales by the end of the year. In 1996 Fey released Tierna la Noche. "Azucar Amargo", the CD's first single, stayed in the Billboard chart for more than 30 weeks. Her tour, Tierna la noche, was also successful. Overall the tour consisted of more than 40 presentations in Mexico, the U.S. and Latin America, as well as some presentations in Europe. At the 9th Lo Nuestro Awards, Fey received a nomination for Pop New Artist.