Sabater became famous during the 90s under prestigious TV journalist Jesús Hermida, although she had previously appeared in the no less legendary quiz show Un, dos, tres as a chorus girl. Her breakout, much to the shock of those who know her from later times, came as a regular host of kids' shows, presenting a variety of programs like No te lo pierdas, Desayuna con alegría, A mediodía, alegría and Lo que hay que tener, gaining fame among kids for her weird face, noticeable strabismus and ease of manner. In 1999, after several years balancing her work with paralell careers as an actress, singer and host in other media, she left the children's world altogether, except by sporadic occasions, and became instead a Reality TV personality.
Her "true" breakout came in 2012, when her music career took a truly eccentric and humorous twist. Her first four singles from that point seemed to be really outlandish yet decently produced parodies of summer Pop music, but in 2016 Sabater released a theme titled "La Salchipapa" that downgraded sharply the production values in favor of turning up the Stylistic Suck, which went viral aditionally after Sabater caused a publicized Twitter brawl with a random detractor. Sabater rode the wave with gusto and initiated the tradition of churning out yearly themes in an even campier artistic line, always featuring ridiculous music videos, highly sexual imagery, skimpy costumes, and very deliberate attempts to make the viewer reach for Brain Bleach. All of her songs since have become memetic in Spain, turning Sabater into an icon of the most guilty kind of Comedy Music, and it's unlikely this new fame will fade soon. Her releases, usually by summer and Christmas, are now a sort of event of the year, with people wondering whether she will be able to outdo herself every time.
Offscreen, Sabater is known to be a much saner person than she looks, having revealed that she is aware of the crap she makes and admitted that she basically does it because she finds the whole thing hilarious. In her own words, viewers should not try to understand her work, but just laugh along and enjoy the absurdity (if they can actually endure the watch, of course).
Discography
- 1991: Nosotros somos el mundo
- 1993: Leticia
- 1994: Leti Funk
- 1997: Con mucha marcha
- 2010: Canciones de Guardería
Her work contains examples of:
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: "18 centímetros papi" is a whole reference to this.
- Break Up Song: "Vete pa'l carajo" (translatable as something in the line of "go to Hell"), which is as much of this trope as humanly possible.
- Canon Welding: Her 2022 song "Papá Noel lléname el tanke" crossed over two other songs of hers, "Mr. Policeman" and "El Polvorrón", creating what some nicknamed the Letiverso.
- Double Entendre: Absolutely constant, although whether they register as double in the first place might often be debatable.
- Fan Disservice: Invoked. As odd as it may sound now, in The '90s Sabater was actually considered something of a Ms. Fanservice, and an example of a female kids show host that provided Parent Service (similar to Brazilian kids show entertainer Xuxa), although even back then her face was a source of jokes among children. However, by the time she reemerged in the 2010s with her novelty songs, she could hardly be described as a beauty in any conventional sense of the word (not helped by the fact that she appeared to have undergone extensive plastic surgery), and yet she's showing off her body in her music videos.
- Stripperiffic: Most of her music videos have her wearing bikinis or some kind of revealing dancer attire.
- The Stoner: Several songs mention both weed and its usage, although ironically Sabater has denied taking drugs of any kind.
- Stylistic Suck: Her meme songs from 2016 usually contain very amateurish, cheap-looking effects, although it looks clearly intentional.
- Zombie Apocalypse: Her personal and very black humor-charged portrayal of COVID-19, as featured in her song "La Bananakiki" to promote vaccination against the virus, has extras playing zombies. This kind of joke is likely something only Sabater could have got away with at the time in Spain.
