Billboard Women in Music 2026 Icon Award recipient Thalia talks about the heartache that helped shape her career, her lifelong love for cumbia music and what it means to receive the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award. She also breaks down her huge hits, “No Me Enseñaste,” “Entre El Mar Y Una Estrella,” “Marimar” and more!
Thalia:
First of all, I’m very relaxed in my life, happy in my own skin, and I feel that is a moment of celebration, and cumbia is exactly that. It’s party, celebration, families, memories, roots, and your hood. A project that is so dear to my heart. It’s like something so profound in my heart. It was just spontaneous and something that I needed to do, and my body needed to feel that energy, that music, and those arrangements to sing about love, happiness, broken hearts, and nothing sounds better when it’s made with cumbia. “Dancing Queen” is that epic song. That’s an epic song that everybody has a memory about somehow. It was just dancing in my living room with my family, with my sisters, and I remember that beautiful sisterhood, and I miss that. It’s also like that assurance that no matter what’s happening in your life, no matter what’s going on around, you have to keep your head up. You have to keep your crown shiny and up. You’re a princess, you’re a queen, you’re a king. Celebrate your life, your history. Have fun. Enjoy it. Dance. Don’t ever forget where you come from. And that’s how “Dancing Queen” happened. This is that group that happened at the moment that I was writing or creating the songs when we were basically concentrated in the studio about the story and what we were planning to say and how, and the sounds and the accordion and all of that. Then, these artists, they just came to me at the moment, right?
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