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Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano (Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico, November 30, 1936) artistically baptized as Lucha Villa, is one of the most outstanding singers in the history of the ranchero genre, as well as a recognized actress in both country-style films and in the auteur cinema of the sixties, which were a great commercial success in the eighties and in the "new Mexican cinema" in the nineties. Lucha Villa is known as the first Queen of the palenques thanks to El gallo de oro (1964 film made by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes). Lucha began to sing in the palenques in the full ring and not in the balcony as was used before, she was the first and the people asked for it that way. Crowning herself as the queen of these throughout her career she packed all the palenques of the popular fairs throughout Mexico. Gau © 1998, Houston, Texas