La Chica Dorada (English: The Golden Girl) is the debut solo studio album by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio, released on October 20, 1992, by EMI Capitol de México.

[1] The album was produced and directed by Miguel Blasco, and written mostly by José Ramón Flórez, Gian Pietro Felisatti and Cesar Valle.

La Chica Dorada's commercial success helped Rubio establish herself as a Latin pop idol and launch her recording career.

Rubio traveled to Madrid, Spain in September 1991 to meet up with the 80's and 90's hit-makers producers Miguel Blasco—who began to guide her to establish her solo project—and José Ramón Flórez, and search record labels for a contract.

While Rubio recording some songs for her debut solo studio album, she anticipated want to show "fresh music for a very broad market.

The album opens with "Mío", a "dancefloor thumper"[9] song includes a flamboyant saxophone insert on the bridge and ends with electric guitar riffs.

"[10] The synth arrangements "Dime Si Soy Sexy" notes a girl who is desired by men because of her prominent beauty through a squeaky funny saxophone.

Written by Aleks Syntek, the guitars-crying style-old West, "El Primer Amor", describing what Rubio is prepared to do for her inexperienced lover, if this one wanna be her first love.

The beats of both live and programmed drums song "La Escoba" is a studio-live track with audience clapping and whistles[11] originally sung by the Spanish rock group Los Sírex.

In the new jack swing cut "Sangre Latina", the singer raps[11] narrating a surreal idyll about a walk she takes through various Mexico city locations looking beautiful, capturing the glances and attention of the men, and citing among them renowned cultural figures such as Juan Gabriel, Pancho Villa and Hernán Cortés.

Paulina Rubio made her debut as a solo singer on the legendary Mexican television program Siempre en Domingo, with Raúl Velasco on October 18, 1992,[12] 3 days before her album was released.

Rubio's wearing a gold, glitter mini skirt, cropped top and jacket, while a straight out of a rotating device to begin her performing.

[14] In United States, for the Spanish-language television program Sábado Gigante, Rubio performed the track "Mío" in January, 1993 and that presentation opened the doors to the Hispanic market in that country.

The producer of the album Miguel Blasco, thought that Paulina should transmit a more sophisticated and sexy image, and that reflected in her debut single.

"Amarte En Libertad" was exclusively released in Latin America as the airplay single in July 1993, and the song was the prelude to Rubio's second album, 24 Kilates, which would be published only 4 months later.

AllMusic rated it three of five stars, giving it a mixed review and considering the album energetic, exuberant, passionate and intense in the same way Rubio's aesthetic image and personality.

[18] El País newspaper's Elena Reina wrote in an article that "[Rubio] turn from adolescence to the age of majority to hit new record.