Career
The Mission Universe pageant had been held in Acapulco, and she received offers by Televisa producer Sergio Bustamante to develop a career there, but she returned to her country. Months later she accepted the offer and returned to Mexico, leaving her mother and boyfriend. Guardia moved to Mexico in 1980.
This move proved to be crucial for her show business career.
In 1980, she appeared in her first television show, alongside Manuel "El Loco" Valdéson Guardia went on to make multiple telenovelas (soap operas) and release a series of albums in the Norteño music genre.
She has been signed to three different labels since her debut album was released in 1988: first with Musart Records, then from the late-1990s until the mid-2000s with Fonovisa Records, and in recent years with Electric and Music Industries Televisa Music in Latin America and Capitol Records in the United States. Guardia has acted alongside important actors, including Andrés García, Saul Lisazo, and Joan Sebastian.
One of her major soap opera hits was alongside Sebastian.
Together, they filmed Tú y yo. One film where she acted alongside Andrés García was Pedro Navaja, where she played the main character"s wife. She also did a film called El Rey de Los Taxistas alongside Luis de Alberta
She and another El Rey de Los Taxistas co-star, Aida Pierce, would work together again in the telenovela Serafin.
Recently she has done telenovelas for children. She has also done a comedy in 2006 that is called Quebec Madre, Tan Padre as well as the variety show, Muévete.
In 2007, she was included in the book Televisa Presenta, which commemorated fifty years of network television in Mexico. In 2008, she released a new album, the main single is "De Pecho A Pecho" (From Chest To Chest) written by the Nicaraguan composer, songwriter and singer Hernaldo Zúñiga.
Apart from her jobs as an actress and singer, she has also modeled for various calendars and magazines, which are sold to her fans.
Guardia also dated Jose Trujillo in the late 1970s. Foreign her work in movies, television and as a recording artist, Guardia has been inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias in Mexico City. In January 2010, she announced that she had worked all of 009 on a new studio album, set to be released on February 13, 2010, under Electric and Music Industries Music, titled "Move You On – Muévete", which contained 12 tracks recorded in Mexico City, Texas & Colombia, eight tracks were in Spanish, the other four were in English.
