Ana Patricia Navidad Lara (born May 20, 1973 in El Carrizal, Sinaloa) is a Mexican actress and singer. She developed an interest in music before acting, mainly influenced by her father, Jesus, and is quoted as saying that his voice has been her inspiration since she was born. When she was nine years old she sang to the public for the first time in a school festival and at fifteen made her first professional debut.

Two years later Paty saw a greater opportunity in the Señorita Sinaloa (Miss Sinaloa) contest which offered as a grand prize a scholarship to Centro de Educación Artística de Televisa (Center of Artistic Education in Television) in Mexico City. In 1993 while at CEA she acted in Los Parientes Pobres, and several other films until she hit it big with her role in the soap opera, Cañaveral de Pasiones (Sugar Cane Plantation of Passions). The role was noticed immediately by the country and after three years she became famous as an actress.

From 1997–2000 she co-starred with René Casados as the conductora (conductor) in the comedy musical show Picardía Mexicana (Mexican Roguery). In 1998–2004 she acted in telenovelas (soap operas), the most famous being 2003's Mariana de la Noche (Mariana of the Night) as the role of Yadira. However, although famous as an actress, she did not abandon her musical career, releasing the album Instantes" (Instances) in 1998 which reached sales of over 100,000.

In 2000 Patricia Navidad was awarded Queen of the Banda in the Carnival of Mazatlán, Sinaloa for the recording of the disc Don Cruz Lizárraga presenta a Patricia Navidad: Raíces de mi tierra (Don Cruz Lizárraga presents Patricia Navidad: Roots of my Homeland).

She was once involved in a controversy with Raul de Molina, co-host of El Gordo y La Flaca and with Lili Estefan, in which he made a remark that she did not like and she walked off the show, after yelling at Estefan about Estefan's grandmother, ignoring that Estefan's grandmother had died just recently before that.

Her latest role was in the successful Mexican telenovela La Fea Más Bella (The Ugliest Most Beautiful [female]), a re-make of the original Colombian soap opera, Yo Soy Betty La Fea (I am Betty, the Ugly One) where she played the character of "Alicia Ferreira".

Discography

• Instantes (1998)
• Paty Navidad (1999)
• Patricia Navidad (2000)
• Urge (2008)

She worked in Premio Lo Nuestro 2008 with Pedro Fernandez

Filmography

• 2008 Juro Que Te Amo as Antonia Campero Vda de Madrigal
• 2006 La Fea Más Bella as Alicia Ferreira de Mora
• 2004 La Otra Brenda
• 2003 Mariana de la Noche as Yadira Guerrero
• 2002 Las Vías del Amor as Rocio
• 2001 El Manantial
• 1998 Ángela
• 1997 Picardía mexicana
• 1997 El Alma no tiene color
• 1996 Cañaveral de pasiones
• 1995 Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma
• 1994 Más allá del puente
• 1994 Marimar
• 1993Los Parientes Pobres
• 1992 Maria Mercedes as Iris

External links

• Patricia Navidad at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Raul de Molina