
Site Introduction
This site is about Tatiana, the talented woman who hosts a Spanish-language
children's show in Mexico (El Espacio de Tatiana, carried in the U.S. on the
Galavision network). But she was famous way before this; she's
been a pop singer since 1984, and has been releasing albums pretty much continuously
ever since, running the gamut from teen pop to more adult fare to the
music for children she does now. It's almost entirely in Spanish, but there
are some English-speaking people who can see her talents and have become fans
even without understanding the language.
In a sense, this site was inspired by some comments left in
the Club de
Los Tigritos Fan Forum, a fan site about another Spanish-language kids'
show (which has a large fan following among English-speaking adults). There, some
people have sometimes bashed Tatiana, claiming she's less talented than the Tigritos
cast; once, somebody said (in response to somebody else who had written
something in favor of Tatiana) that "You find no fan sites about Tatiana's
show because nobody cares." This site picks up that gauntlet by being
the first independent fan site about Tatiana.
The webmaster already knows what it's like to create the first fan site for a performer
that most everybody else either ignores or dislikes; he put up the first
Tiffany fan site. At one point
Tiffany had no visible fan following, and was constantly ridiculed in
every music-related forum, even including Debbie Gibson e-mail lists (where,
much like the Tigritos fans treat Tatiana, some Gibson fans denounced Tiffany
as a "talentless" imitator). Now Tiffany has
many fan sites on the Web and a well-organized fan community in place to support
her recent (Nov. 2000) album release. Let's see if history can repeat itself
with the Tatiana fan following being built with this site and its
associated discussion list!
While this site started as a completely independent and unofficial
fan project, Tatiana soon started looking regularly at it herself,
and she has supplied lots of pictures and comments for the site.
Here's a picture of the webmaster, Dan Tobias (left), and contributor Richard "Godspeede" Morton (right), who
together make up "Los Dos Tatigringos"!
The Spanish translations in this site were done by Claudia "Tatiana" Miranda. Read her essay on why
she's Tatiana's number one fan!
¡Se Habla Your Language!
Almost all of the pages of this site are available in Spanish as well
as in English. Already, several pages including the front page of the site and this introduction
are in both languages. The technology of language negotiation is used to automatically give you
pages in the language you prefer, if available. Most browsers have a configuration setting for
languages -- in Netscape / Mozilla it's in the Preferences item of the Edit menu, under "Navigator";
in Opera it's in the Preferences item of the File menu, under "Languages"; in Microsoft Internet
Explorer it's in the Internet Options item of the Tools menu, in the "General" tab (look for the
"Languages" button). You can set up a list of languages you can read, arranged in the order that
you prefer them. Usually, your browser will already be set for the normal language preference of
your country (so browsers distributed in the United States are set for English, and browsers in
Latin America for Spanish), but you can change this preference if you wish. If you'd rather read
this site in Spanish, select Spanish (language code "es") as your first choice. If you prefer
English, select language code "en".
There are links within this site to go directly to the different language versions of a page, in
case you want to see the other language from the one you're configured to receive. All URLs that
end in ".en" or ".es" are the specific language versions, while the ones that don't
end in these extensions are generic versions that might come up in different languages depending
on your browser configuration.
This page was first created 07 Jan 2001, and last modified 20 May 2003.
This page is not an official site of Tatiana or her management, producers,
TV networks, or record companies; it is an independent fan site.
Tatiana's official site is at www.tatiana.tv.
All contents copyrighted by their respective creators or contributors or © 2000-2004 Daniel R. Tobias.
The "Tatiana" logo and other trademarks used in this site are property of their respective owners.