2003

Release Date of Thalia's English Album Announced

source: thalia.com & www.virginrecords.com
TW Correspondents: Tonchi & Luisa

As big as success Thalia has had in 2002, 2003 promises to be even better. The first English single from Thalia's first English-language album will be released in early 2003, with the album hitting stores shortly after. This early, Thalia is already listed in the Virgin Records America website as one of the artists with an album set to launch early 2003. Clearly yet another solid indication that this year will be Thalia's long awaited and much talked about cross - over year.

Thalia Releases Third Single and Video With a Hot New Look in the New Year

Source: thalia.com
TW Correspondent: Tonchi

Latin music superstar Thalia will release “A Quien Le Importa,” the third single off her mulit-platinum album Thalia, in January 2003. “A Quien Le Importa” is a cover of the popular 80’s hit of the same name that was originally sung by the group Alaska Y Dinarama. Although the official add date for radio is not until early January, many stations have jumped on the song and are playing it. The song seems to be preparing to climb the charts much like the two previous singles, “Tu Y Yo” and “No Me Ensenaste”, which reached the #1 spot.

Thalia Plays Santa to Disadvantaged Kids

TW Correspondent: Tonchi
Source: thalia.com - December 14, 2002

Latin Singer Thalia gave early holiday cheer to about 50 Washington Heights children early this week. The children ranging in age from 7 to 14 are members of the Broadway Housing Communities LETRA after school program, sponsored by the Robin Hood Foundation. The organization focuses on helping less fortunate families get a fresh start, and the children, all of Hispanic heritage, were moved by the unexpected visit.

The media caused my sisters to be imprisoned longer - Thalía

Source: El Universal, December 11, 2002
By: Salvador Camarena/Corresponsal
TW Correspondent: Tonchi

New York, USA - The singer Thalía blamed bad information from some of the media for having provoked that her sisters, Laura Zapata y Ernestina Sodi, spend more time as kidnapping victims. This declaration, which is the first she has offered with relation to this subject, was given at the press conference where the singer and KMart announced their agreement to develop an exclusive line of clothing and accessories for the self-service stores over the next four years.

"It's difficult to speak about what my family experienced, about the tragedy that we lived. I definitely want to say that you should respect our privacy, because in some way, without meaning to, some of the media made it more difficult for my sisters to get out ahead of time", she said. "And due to the bad information, my sisters suffered many more days of captivity", continued the singer.

Thalía's sisters were kidnapped this past September 22 upon leaving a theatrical function. Laura Zapata was liberated on October 11, while Ernestina Sodi remained missing until the 26th of the same month.

Through a situation like that which she and her family experienced, the singer stated that she wants to say to the whole world that they should enjoy their loved ones. "The only think that I can tell you is that you should enjoy each other, love each other, that you should hug each other, love one another, you don't know what the next second is going to bring", asserted Mrs. Mottola.

Thalía claims to be very enthusiastic about their agreement that the KMart chain will begin to sell clothing designed by her in the summer of 2003. "It reflects my personality," commented Thalía, who besides that said that the clothing will be for every type of bodies, not only for those like hers, who "thanks to God were born thin."

This is not the first time that the Mexican has entered into the market for designer apparel and accessories. In 1993, she launched a line of (intimate) clothing in Mexico, which lasted three years, and in 2001 came her line of glasses.

During the press conference which she offered with the president of KMart, James B. Adamson, Thalía assured that a person who associates themselves with an enterprise in bankruptcy will not negatively impact their career. The designs "are thought of for the Latina community, to cover that flavor that we have, those colors, those stretch fabrics that we like so much," she explained. This is a parallel project to her career as a singer, in which she will adore working in every detail of design and promotion of the products that they are going to launch. They want to produce underwear, back-to-school clothing, fine jewelry and costume jewelry, shoes, accessories, and in a second phase they are planning furniture for the bedroom and bath.

KMart also has contracts with other personalities, among which is the distinctive Martha Stewart, an institution in the United States for "do it yourself and with class", who recently has found herself in the eye of the storm for presumed irregularities in a sale of stock which immediately afterwards crashed.

Thalía also said that in the "very near" future she would like to have a child, a "Little Tommy", fruit of her marriage with impresario Tommy Mottola. "We are thinking about beginning our family, she stated.

First came the Lingerie Line...

Then her successful line of eyewear...

And NOW comes the full line of clothing, excessories, and housewears for the modern woman .

Ulysses Yannas, an analyst at Buckman, Buckman and Reid,calls it a good merger. Exclusive brands like Thalia, Martha Stewart and Joe Boxer attract customers and will help Kmart better compete against its rivals than trying to beat them on prices. Kmart's price wars with Target and Wal-Mart last year are one reason the company ran out of money and filed the largest retail bankruptcy in January.

"The old strategy of competing on price doesn't make sense," Yannas said. "The new strategy is to have your own brands to get people in the stores."