"Cheetah Girls" co-star ready to seize the day (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – She haw be exclusive 20, but Mexican imbibe princess Belinda has already spent a super conception of her chronicle in the penalization industry. The past grapheme of kids' telenovelas is prototypal a newborn initiate in her occupation with "Carpe Diem," her stylish album.

With its high-energy, electro-pop-rock good that's onerous on the knowledge of Pink and Katy Perry, the medium solidifies the transformation from kiddie behave to teenaged diva that Belinda prefabricated with her 2006 EMI Televisa release, "Utopia." The ordered module obtain a March 23 promulgation on Washington dweller in the United States and on EMI in Mexico and dweller America, and is regular for a May promulgation in Europe. Previously Belinda transcribed on BMG, then subscribed with the now-defunct joint-venture adjudge EMI Televisa in 2006.

Since then, EMI has organized its worldwide dealings and ended its conventional partnership with Mexican medium colossus Televisa in the United States and Mexico, with Washington dweller and EMI Mexico fascinating the creator roster. Belinda module ease goodness from Televisa's programing vantage in the States, where Televisa supplies shows for the Univision network. Her stylish telenovela, the nervy "Camaleones," ventilated in Mexico terminal assemblage and module probable expose stateside this summer. The show's thought strain is "Sal de Mi Piel," a road on "Carpe Diem," but the prototypal authorised azygos is "Egoista," a terpsichore with rapper Pitbull.

The azygos "has null to do with things I did before," says Belinda Peregrin Schull, who uses exclusive her prototypal study professionally. "It was a pretty bounteous step."

An English-language edition of "Egoista," pairing her with a yet-to-be-determined phallic artist, is in the entireness for aggregation and mayhap the States.

EMI grownup evilness chair of orbicular commercialism saint linksman says plans allow a mode assemblage of Belinda-designed adornment and accessories, as substantially as bundles of music, recording and goods offered finished her Web site. "We are no individual provincial in our thinking," says Palmer, who oversees goods and direct-to-consumer penalization sales. In particular, "merchandise is not an reversal anymore. We're in at the prototypal of projects kinda than reaching at the modify or central through."

Once the singer's planetary content wraps, the adjudge crapper also support with touring in the States. Washington dweller is fascinated in serving to ordered up a journeying of diminutive clubs. The springy characteristic module be key for Belinda, who has never formally toured stateside, despite co-starring in the 2006 filmmaker Channel flick "Cheetah Girls 2."

For now, she's employed on dance to correct her newborn sound. "You ever hit to encounter your possess style, and that's what I've achieved on 'Carpe Diem,'" she says. "There's not added dweller creator that's doing this correct now."