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In an interview before a ceremony honoring her at The Mirage
hotel-casino, Tatiana said that she has only performed a few
times in Las Vegas, and was surprised by the crowds and the
feedback because her show is entirely in Spanish and she is more
well-known south of the U.S. border.
``They said, 'We have children and we don't have anywhere to
take them to have fun and to recover their roots and their
language and their music,''' Tatiana told The Associated Press.
``Maybe I'll come back—I hope so—and I want to come back big.''
Tatiana said a run of three shows in 1997 along with a Mexican
family circus in the mall of a Hispanic market in North Las
Vegas attracted a total of 17,000 people.
``All the people knew me from Mexico and the TV shows in
Mexico,'' she said. ``The little girls, they had the dresses
like me and the T-shirts and everything that their grandmothers
or family sent them from Mexico.''
Las Vegas Walk of Stars spokesman Pablo Castro Zavala said
Tatiana was picked because the organization got a tremendous
amount of e-mails and phone calls asking that she be honored.
According to the Las Vegas Walk of Stars Web site, honorees
usually have had a significant and enduring Las Vegas presence.
``People love her,'' Zavala said. ``She's also a person with a
good heart, a single mother who works very hard.''
According to the latest numbers from the U.S. census bureaus,
about 25 percent of Nevadans are Hispanic.
Tatiana said she began focusing on children's songs when her
daughter was 1 year old.
Tatiana joins Latino musicians Alex Lora of El Tri,
Vicente Fernández, Veronica Castro, and Los Tigres
del Norte on the walk. Her 180-pound star was placed on the
Las Vegas Strip sidewalk on Friday, Dec. 12—El Día de la
Virgen de Guadalupe—outside the MGM Grand hotel-casino.
On the Net:
Las Vegas Walk of Stars:
http://www.lasvegaswalkofstars.com/
Tatiana:
http://www.tatiana.tv/
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