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Alessandra Rubí Streignard Villarreal (born September 4, 1982 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish singer and model.

Biography

Alessandra became a surrogate mother at 8 years old, taking care of her nephew after her sister's drug addiction. She and her family moved to the United States at age 12 because of her father's job.

At the age of 13 Alessandra signed a contract with in the United States, and her career began. By the age of 16 Alessandra was tired of the model life and decided to put more effort into her school work. She was homeschooled in a school district in Los Angeles, California, and graduated at the age of 17. After graduating she moved to Boston, Massachusetts and opened her own nursery, specializing in orchids. Alessandra's business quickly grew, and she now owns four nurseries, in Boston, Madrid, Barcelona, and Los Angeles.

In 2003, Alessandra began her career as a singer, with a four octave voice, Alessandra released her album Red Love. Red Love was not welcomed in the U.S., but sold fairly well in Spain. Note: Alessandra's album was pulled completely from the U.S. market on January 2004

Alessandra has appeared in various magazines including , , and

Although Alessandra is not well-known in the United States, she is well known in Spain, especially for her beautiful body, face, and fiesty attitude. Her fiesty attitude is the exact reason she's always been linked to cat fights and drama. Her most notable cat fight was with the Spanish actress Maribel Verdu.

Alessandra has been pursued by the actor Juan Diego Botto, but she's kept the relationship quiet. To this day, no one knows if the two are dating or not.

Alessandra actively participates in and donates to several charities in the U.S and Spain, including .

Family Background

Information taken from Vogue Spain Magazine and rewritten
Alessandra was born to a Spanish mother and German father, her mother a singer(opera/pop), and her father a medicinal chemist. She was a quiet child who loved the arts, and loved nurturing things, especially plants, and children. She has six brothers and sisters.

Alessandra plays the violin, and the piano and was also enrolled in ballet at the age of 12. She is still actively practicing.

Alessandra also belongs to one of the wealthiest families in Northern Spain.

She was also raised in a mixed religious household, her mother being Catholic, and her father being Pagan/Wiccan.

Although Alessandra strongly identifies as Catholic, she still applies some Pagan ideals to her everyday life.

Upcoming Projects

Alessandra's new CD in 2006

Alessandra signed a contract with (International) in October 2005 to do a few films and some voiceover work for an animation film.

Capitalizing on the growing franchise of CSI, CSI: NY, CSI: Miami, and CSI: Buenas Aires, Telecinco in Spain is coming up with their own spin off titled CSI:Madrid and Alessandra has been offered a leading role. There has been no word yet on whether she's accepted or not, but filming begins in early 2007.

Most of Alessandra's projects have been cancelled or pushed back for 2006. She has given no reason for these cancellations.

Work History

She worked on Sailor Moon for all 5 seasons and Sailor Moon Regional Spanish(Spain Only) Version for only 4 seasons, due to the cancellation of the fifth season in Spain because of borderline adult themes.

Alessandra owns a boutique in Los Angeles called "Rubí Designs" the boutique was renamed "Rubí Designs" after it burnt down in late 2003, only 6 months after opening. The former name was "Black Crystal Designs". She prides herself on owning a boutique for women who don't have the thin bodies of 10 year old boys. Alessandra is the head designer, along with two other co-designers. Her store motto is (mujeres deben lucir como mujeres) Or in English, "Women should look like(or shine like) women."

Alessandra also owns and manages 4 nurseries called Orquídeas de Alessandra.
Orquídeas de Alessandra specialize in growing and cultivating orchids from seed (germinating orchids from seed is a very difficult, complicated and expensive process.) She also has two labs, one in her home, and one in her main nursery in Barcelona where she and her employees carefully germinate and deflask delicate orchid seedlings for later sale.

Facts about Alessandra

She participated in several beauty pageants from the age of twelve to twenty-two.

Both Alessandra and her late mother suffer(ed) from OCD. Alessandra has made no secret of her disorder; she started a Non Profit Orginization in Spain to help educated Spaniards about depression and OCD; she teamed up with Pfizer in 2003 to promote Zoloft.

Her natural hair color is red.

Her favorite show is The Simpsons.

Her hero is her father.

She speaks Castillian Spanish, Catalan, French, English, and, Portuguese.

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