Early Life and Career
Acosta was born in Houston and raised in San Antonio. Her parents, Ruben and Josie Acosta, enrolled her in a mariachi music school at age 6. She later studied voice with Latin Grammy Award nominee Manuel Vargas, a former lead singer of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan. In 2000, at the age of eight, Acosta won the title of Best Mariachi Music Vocalist in the United States at the Ford and Lincoln Mercury Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza.
Her pop music career began after being discovered in 2002 by Jeff Durand, C.E.O. of independent record label Covert Entertainment. In 2004, at age 12, she was signed by Covert Entertainment and began recording "Once Upon A Time", her English debut album. It included the songs "The World's Gone Crazy" and "Could This Be Love," both written and produced by Jeff Durand, which became popular on Radio Disney.
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