Lyn May

Born in Nuxco, Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero, Mexico, she is of Chinese ancestry. During her childhood, Lilia helped with household expenses by selling souvenirs to tourists. She would eventually go on to work as a waitress in a restaurant where she met her first husband, an American sailor 30 years her senior, with whom she settled in Mexico City. After five years of marriage and the birth of their two daughters, Lilia separated from her husband alleging domestic violence and sexual abuse. Back in Acapulco, Lilia began to work in the cabaret El Zorro, as a dancer. Eventually she worked at the Tropicana cabaret in Acapulco, where she alternated with the popular Mexican comedian Germán Valdés "Tin Tan".

After her successful season with Tin Tan, Lilia traveled to Mexico City, where television presenter Raul Velasco hired her as a dancer in the program Siempre en Domingo. There, she joined the program's ballet, headed by the popular vedette Olga Breeskin. On the TV show, Lilia learned, with a professional instructor, to dance tribal, Hawaiian, and Tahitian dances.

In 1970, Lilia was hired by the businessman Enrique Lombardini, who at that time managed the Teatro Esperanza Iris. However, the young dancer was not prepared for the kind of burlesque shows that were taking place in the city theater. According to Lyn May, the first day she stepped on the stage of the Teatro Iris, she was heavily booed by attendees, who, accustomed to the artistic nudes of vedettes like Gloriella and Cleopatra, protested the musical number of the young aspirant to vedette.

After battling for a week at the Teatro Iris, Lilia performed her first nude, becoming a sensation among the male audience. Lombardini bestowed on her the pseudonym "Lyn May: The Goddess of Love." As a vedette, Lyn May included singing in her shows in nightclubs and cabarets.

She had a long stay at the Teatro Blanquita in Mexico City. In 1974, filmmaker Alberto Isaac chose Lyn as one of the main protagonists of the famous film Tívoli, which portrays with nostalgia the nocturnal atmosphere of Mexico City in the 1940s and 1950s. With the success of the film, Lyn became fully incorporated into Mexican Cinema, particularly the genre known as Ficheras film of the 1970s and 1980s. But in the late 1980s, this film genre declined in popularity, forcing May to retire from the stage. In 1991, she participated in the telenovela Yo no creo en los hombres, produced by Televisa.

In 1998, May's career resurfaced after participating in the music video of the song Mr. P. Mosh by Mexican rock band Plastilina Mosh. She also began to appear frequently as a guest on the Univision television show El Gordo y La Flaca. In 2016 also appeared in a music video of the song Si tu me quisieras, of the Chilean singer Mon Laferte.

She currently works as a Tahitian dance instructor at the Plaza Caribe Hotel in Cancun, Mexico and gives performances on weekends in the bar of the same establishment.

In 2016, Lyn was featured in the documentary film Beauties of the Night, by the filmmaker María José Cuevas, along with other vedettes like Olga Breeskin, Rossy Mendoza, Wanda Seux and Princesa Yamal.