Cristina Sanchez was born on 31 May 1978 in Fuengirola (Málaga). She and her two brothers were raised in Fuengirola by their father. She is not the only in her family, who is a singer, her cousin Anabel Conde came second in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest. At 16 years old she stopped studying and dedicated herself to music. She had to work in a clothes store, but very quickly she formed a group with some friends and began to sing in bars and pubs of Fuengirola.