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Rebeca Tamez

Mexican model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ3421681 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rebeca Lynn Tamez Jones (born October 18, 1975 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican artist and beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza México 1996. The daughter of a Mexican father and an American mother, Rebeca represented her country in the 1997 Miss Universe pageant on May 16, 1997 in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S..

She joined the Mexican musical group Garibaldi during its last year, and she appeared in former Mexican soap operas.

Rebeca Tamez also represented Mexico in the Miss Continente Americano in 1997 winning the crown and the title.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rebeca Tamez” is mexican model. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rebeca, Tamez and Mexican, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1996, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-10-18. For this dossier, Rebeca, Tamez and Mexican is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3421681. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1996 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rebeca Tamez” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.