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===1971–1981: Early life and career beginnings=== Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes was born on 17 June 1971 in [[Mexico City]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Paulina Rubio |url=https://www.marathi.tv/cantante/paulina-rubio/ |website=marathy.tv |access-date=2 October 2019 |archive-date=2 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002222418/https://www.marathi.tv/cantante/paulina-rubio/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Her father, Enrique Rubio González (1932–2011), was a Spanish-born lawyer; her mother was [[Susana Dosamantes]] (1948–2022), a Mexican actress.<ref>{{cite web |title=Susana Dosamantes, Ancestry |url=https://www.facebook.com/investigacionesgenealogicas/photos/susana-dosamantessusana-rul-riestra-es-conocida-art%C3%ADsticamente-como-susana-dosam/572164636307169/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/182875665236070/572164636307169 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|website=Ancestros, Investigaciones Genealógicas |access-date=2 October 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Dosamantes had lived in [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]] until adolescence when she decided to become a film actress, and just before Rubio's birth, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1970s in Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |title=1948: Llega al mundo la reconocida actriz mexicana Susana Dosamantes |url=https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/950865.1948-llega-al-mundo-la-reconocida-actriz-mexicana-susana-dosamantes.html |website=elsiglodetorreon.com |date=9 January 2014 |publisher=El Siglo de Torreón |access-date=2 October 2019 |archive-date=2 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002222416/https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/950865.1948-llega-al-mundo-la-reconocida-actriz-mexicana-susana-dosamantes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rubio's younger brother, Enrique Rubio Jr., is an important lawyer and socialite; her half-sister Ana Paola Rubio stays out of the spotlight. Her musical legacy comes from her grandmother and great-grandmother, who were a mezzo-soprano singer and pianist, respectively.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rodriguez |first1=Jesús |title=Soy una empresa que escribe y canta canciones |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2009/07/26/eps/1248589614_850215.html |newspaper=El País |date=26 July 2009 |access-date=6 October 2019 |archive-date=13 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913073842/https://elpais.com/diario/2009/07/26/eps/1248589614_850215.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Her great-grandparents were originally from Spain and Portugal, and from a very young age she used to spend two or three months a year in Europe, visiting relatives. The rest of the year she resided between Mexico and [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Paulina Rubio a Sanremo |url=https://www.rockol.it/news-40734/comunicato-stampa-paulina-rubio-a-sanremo?refresh_ce |publisher=Rockol |access-date=27 January 2021 |archive-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422121957/https://www.rockol.it/news-40734/comunicato-stampa-paulina-rubio-a-sanremo?refresh_ce |url-status=live }}</ref> As a little girl "grew up in the middle of an artistic world surrounded by cameras, lights and sets".<ref name=gandp/> As Rubio has stated of herself: "I've been famous since I was born",<ref name=gandp/> due to the commotion that her birth caused, as she was the daughter of one of the most consecrated actresses in Mexico. According to her mother, Rubio grew up among arts media and the filming locations, while she worked. First Rubio's appearance in a film was the early 1980s, when accompanied by younger brother, she got a minor role in film ''El Día del Compadre''. She also took singing, acting, jazz, painting, and dance lessons while enrolled at what is now the [[Centro de Educación Artística]] (CEA) in Mexico in 1980.<ref name=Hola-PR>{{cite web |title=Paulina Rubio - Biografía ¡Hola! |url=https://mx.hola.com/biografias/paulina-rubio/ |website=mx.hola.com |publisher=¡Hola! Mexico |access-date=1 June 2021 |archive-date=3 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603004447/https://mx.hola.com/biografias/paulina-rubio/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After two years there, Rubio's parents were contacted by producers Julisa and Guillermo del Bosque to they approval of Rubio's joining on a musical band formed by children from the CEA. They were puzzled by Julissa and Guillermo del Bosque's request. Later, Rubio told them "I did the casting without notifying you." Despite Susana and Enrique's dissatisfaction, they reached an agreement with their daughter to be part of the children's musical band, with the condition that she got "a grade of nine in the school".<ref name=Historias-EN>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfTeM6YIJ0I&t=1142s |title=Historias Engarzadas - Paulina Rubio |date=February 12, 2014 |author=Historias Engarzadas |website=YouTube |access-date=December 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625153419/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfTeM6YIJ0I&t=1142s |archive-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref>
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