Ximena SariƱana is nothing if not precocious. The Mexican actress/singer-songwriter claims her love affair with music began at the age of 2, when she attended an Ella Fitzgerald concert and at 7 she was enrolled in singing lessons with famed vocal coach, Ricardo Sanchez at the urging of her neighbor, another well-known Mexican actress/singer/song-writer, Cecilia Toussaint. Around the same time she also took up the piano. At the age of 9 she acted in Hasta Morir, produced by her father, and a