High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! María Cristina Lancelotti (born January 7, 1952), much better known as Valeria Lynch, is a singer from Argentina. She was born in Buenos Aires and is related to an Italian count. Lynch, whose artistic last name is of Irish or Celtic background, demonstrated interest in becoming a singer since an early age, singing and dancing for her family before she entered school. She kept her interest in singing through her childhood, and, at the age of 14, she began to take voice and stage presentation classes, among others. She decided to dedicate herself to her main passion, music. In 1976, she married her manager, Hector Cavallero. The couple had two sons, but, eventually, her marriage to Cavallero ended in divorce.