With the current dance competition broadcast on Televisa, the former academic is looking for horizons outside the television station that launched her to fame in 2002
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Toñita currently participates in Las estrellas bailan en Hoy (Photo: Televisa)
“I ended my employment relationship with Azteca< /b>in 2007, they gave me my retirement letter”, Toñita told Infobae México about her relationship with the television station that launched her into the public eye as part of the first generation of her already flagship program, La Academia, a project that in 2002 became a phenomenon of audience and sales of records and triggered the fever for music realities in the country.
Antonia Salazar Zamora became known alongside talents such as Yahir, Víctor García, Nadia and Yuridia, she won the sympathy of the public for her carefree and playful character, in addition to her vocal talent on stage.
Sheltered under the company, at the end of the reality, the former academics made extensive and well-paid concert tours, and some also appeared in other productions sporadically, such as soap operas and magazine programs that continued to give them projectionbefore the public for a few years.
The first generation of La Academia presented characters like Toñita, Víctor García and Yahir (Photo: Twitter @Somos1G)
From a distance from their past on TV Azteca< /i>, where she participated in programs such as Desafío de estrellas and in the tour of the First generation, the native of Tantoyuca, Veracruz, recounted her arrival at the company Televisa, direct competition of the house that launched it and where he is currently one of the participants in Las estrellas bailan en Hoy.
“< b>Some people will say that I am ungrateful, no, on the contrary, I stayed there (on TV Azteca) even though I didn’t have a contract, they called me, I went and was there even if there wasn’t a single salary payment, that’s love for the house that gave you the opportunity, but people have to understand that we have to fly, grow, search and knock on doors”, he said.
Seeing himself without opportunities or castingsIn Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s emporium, Toñita developed her career as an independent artist by releasing albums in the tropical and norteño ballad genres, as well as performing live; At the time he began to look for opportunities and found one on Jalisco television, where he took his first steps in driving shortly before the pandemic broke out.
The singer considers this opportunity unique to give her career a boost (Capture: @programahoy/Instagram)
“At Televisa they gave me the opportunity in 2019, at Televisa Guadalajara on the La sorda program and there I began to make my way, they told me ‘no, you’re ungrateful if they gave you the opportunity there’…If they didn’t they are giving work and here yes, I’m not going to say no, so from there my path began”, he recalled.
The show’s information program ended in 2020 and the celebrity continued to “knock on doors” at the company: “Then we were knocking on doors here on Televisa for about two years, then Mr. Jaitovich invited me to his program and the one who came to give me the opportunity was Genoveva Martínez, enrolling me in This story sounds familiar to me and As the saying goes, which by the way I just make a chapter, the program was very good, people liked it a lot, blessed God.”
Toñita is a dance partner of the singer Chao in the morning competition (Photo: Instagram/@ programahoy)
Her arrival three weeks ago to the program Hoy as part of the participants in the morning contest, it represents an opportunity for the singer to reach more audiences and “pulls” her to be considered by the producers of Televisa for some project .
“Right now Andrea Rodríguez gave me the opportunity for the Hoy program, It’s a screen opportunity, it’s great for me and I’m not going to be saying nobecause they don’t give me a job there, or wait for them to give me something there and tell Andrea ‘no, thanks, I’ll wait for them to call me’, it would be very stupid of me.”
Toñita recently had a meeting with her former academic friend Yahir. The Veracruzana filled the singer of “La Madness” (Photo: Screenshot)
“I want them to see that I am an ‘all-terrain’ person and knock on doors in the different productions for novels, to do projects and things like that , I would love for them to see a strong Toñita, who is not complaining, compliant, disciplined and dancing is showing discipline…singer, actress or dancer, whatever I’m into. My roll is to be seen and for people to see that I can do more things than I am used to, ”she concluded.