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Infobox musical artist | name = La Lupe| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond| alias = La Lupe La Yiyiyi "la Reina del Latin Soul"| birth_date = birth date|mf=yes|1939|12|23| death_date = death date and age|mf=yes|1992|2|29|1939|12|23|death_place = The Bronx , New York City, New York , United States| origin = Santiago de Cuba , Cuba | instrument =| genre = Salsa music|Salsa , Bolero| occupation = Singer| years_active = 1958–1980| label =| associated_acts = Tito Puente , Mongo Santamaría , Celia Cruz | website = La Lupe (born Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond ) ( Santiago de Cuba , 23 December 1939 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr& GRid=18854 Guadalupe "La Lupe" Yoli from Find A Grave & ndash; The Bronx, New York , 29 February 1992),Giro cites 28 February 1992 as the date of death. was a Cuba n-American singer of several musical genres: bolero s, guaracha s and Latin soul in particular. Known for her energetic, sometimes controversial performances, she is considered by many to be one of the leading singers in the salsa music genre.
Career
La Lupe was born in the barrio of San Pedrito in Santiago de Cuba . Her father was a worker at the local Bacardi distillery and a major influence on her early life. Her introduction to fame was in 1954, on a radio program which invited fans to sing imitations of their favorite stars. Lupe bunked off school to sing a bolero of Olga Guillot 's, called Miénteme (Lie to me), and won the competition. The family moved to Havana in 1955, where she was enrolled at the University of Havana to become a teacher. Like Celia Cruz , she was certified as a schoolteacher before she became a professional singer.Giro, p45.
Lupe married in 1958 and formed a musical trio with her husband Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and another female singer. This group, Los Tropicuba , broke up along with the marriage in 1960. She began to perform her own act at a small nightclub in Havana , La Red (The Net), which had a clientele of distinguished foreigners. She acquired a devoted following, which included Ernest Hemingway , Tennessee Williams , Jean-Paul Sartre , Simone de Beauvoir and Marlon Brando citation needed|date=January 2011. She also performed regularly on radio. She released her first album, Con el Diablo en el cuerpo ( With the Devil in my body ) in 1960, for RCA Victor , which was later certified gold. Her first television appearance on Puerto Rican television caused a stir due to her frenzied, vibrant performance, which reportedly shocked some viewers.Pedro Rojas 1988. sleeve notes to La Lupe: too much , Charly Records LP HOT 123
In 1962 she found herself Cuban exile|exiled to the United States. In New York City she performed at a cabaret named La Barraca , where she was discovered by Mongo Santamaría and started a new career, making more than 10 records in five years. She married a second time, to salsa musician Willie García, with whom she had a daughter. That marriage also ended in divorce.
Lupe's passionate performances covered the range of music: son montuno , bolero, boogaloo , venturing into other caribbean music|Caribbean styles like Dominican Merengue music|merengue , Puerto Rican bomba and plena . It was her recordings which brought Tite Curet Alonso into prominence as a composer of tough-minded boleros in the salsa style. In the 1960s she was the most acclaimed Latin singer in New York City due to her partnership with Tito Puente . She was the first Latin singer to sell out a concert event at Madison Square Garden . She covered a wide variety of cover version s in either Spanish or accented English, including Yesterday (The Beatles song)|Yesterday , Dominique (song)|Dominique by The Singing Nun , Twist & Shout , Unchained Melody , Fever (1956 song)|Fever and America from West Side Story (film)|West Side Story .
The quality of her performances became increasingly uneven. There were persistent rumours of her drug addiction, and her life was "a real earthquake" according to close friends.Rondon, César Miguel 2008. The book of salsa: a chronicle of urban music from the Caribbean to New York City . University of North Carolina Press; p148 She ended some of her on-stage engagements being treated with an oxygen mask. Although she may have been poorly managed by her label Fania Records in particular, she managed and produced herself in mid-career, after she parted ways with Tito Puente.
Religious beliefs
A devout follower of Santería , she continued to practice her religion regardless of the influence, fortune, and fame she had acquired throughout the height of her career. Her record label, Fania Records , ended her contract in the late 1970s, perhaps simply because of falling sales. She retired in 1980, and found herself destitute by the early 1980s. In 1984 she injured her spine while trying to hang a curtain in her home; she initially used a wheelchair, then later a cane. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/07/arts/la-lupe-a-singer-is-dead-at-53-known-as-queen-of-latin-soul.html? pagewanted=1 La Lupe, a Singer, Is Dead at 53; Known as "Queen of Latin Soul" from The New York Times 7 March 1992 An electrical fire made her homeless. After being healed at an evangelical Christian Crusade, La Lupe abandoned her Santería roots and became a born-again Christian . In 1991, she gave a concert at La Sinagoga in New York, singing Christian songs.Knights, Vanessa 2001. Performances of pain and pleasure (Divas sing the bolero) . Institute of Popular Music Seminar Series. University of Liverpool
Death
She died of a heart attack on 29 February 1992 at 52 years of age. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_4_10/ai_73323942/ Remembering LA LUPE from '' Latin Beat Magazine May 2000 She was survived by her second husband William García, son René Camaño (from her first marriage) and her daughter Rainbow García (from her second marriage). She's buried in Saint Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/arts/resurrecting-la-lupe-a-wild-and-soulful-singer-whose-life-fell-apart.html? sec=& spon=& pagewanted=all Resurrecting La Lupe, a Wild and Soulful Singer Whose Life Fell Apart from The New York Times 27 June 2001
The King swings, the incredible Lupe sings 1965 (with Tito Puente )
Tú y yo 1965 (with Tito Puente)
Homenaje a Rafael Hernández 1966 (with Tito Puente)
La Lupe y su alma venezolana 1966
A mí me llaman La Lupe 1966
The King and I 1967 (with Tito Puente)
The Queen does her own thing 1967
Two sides of La Lupe 1968
Queen of Latin soul 1968
''La Lupe's era 1968
La Lupe is the Queen 1969
Definitely la Yiyiyi 1969
That genius called the Queen 1970
La Lupe en Madrid 1971
''Stop, I'm free again 1972
¿Pero cómo va ser? 1973
Un encuentro con La Lupe & ndash; with Curet Alonso 1974
One of a kind 1977
La pareja 1978 (with Tito Puente)
En algo nuevo 1980. Last original album
Compilations
This section is not complete.
Lo mejor de la Lupe Compilation, 1974
Apasionada Compilation, 1978
La Lupe: too much 1989. Compilation from Tico recordings only, by Charly Records LP HOT 123
Dance with the Queen 2008
La Lupe greatest hits 2008
Religious albums 1986-89
La samaritana
Te amo porque me amaste primero
Dios no es hombre para que mienta
La Lupe en Cristo
Key numbers
Short list of characteristic numbers, taken from Giro Radamés' Diccionario enciclopédico de la música en Cuba and compilation albums:
Con el Diablo en el cuerpo (With the devil in my body)
Fiebre ( Fever (1956 song)|Fever )
Crazy love
Qué te pedí?
La tirana Tico SLP 1167
Puro teatro (Pure theatre) Tico SLP 1192
Adíos (Goodbye)
Carcajada final (Last laugh) Tico SLP 1176
A Benny Moré Tico CLP 1310
Films, theatre
La Lupe: my life, my destiny : theatrical production by Carmen Rivera (2001).
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul film by Ela Troyano (2003; 2007)
La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori (2003).
Popular Culture
In the 1990s, interest in her music was re-sparked when Pedro Almodóvar included Puro Teatro , one of her boleros of love and breakup in his film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown .
Her recording of La Virgen Lloraba was used in the 1996 film The Birdcage .
In 2002, New York City renamed East 140th Street in The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory. http://www.motthavenherald.com/2009/12/05/show-uses-mott-haven-streets-to-tell-story-of-the-bronx/ Show uses Mott Haven streets to tell story of the Bronx from www.motthavenherald.com 5 December 2009
Cuban-American writer Daína Chaviano pays homage to La Lupe in the novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, 2008), where the singer appears in a cameo singing Puro Teatro .
References
Reflist
Further reading
Citation |last=Aparicio |first=Frances R. |year=1998 |title=Listening to Salsa: gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures |location= |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |pages=176 et seq.
Citation |last=Aparicio |first=Frances R. |lastauthoramp=yes |last2=Valentín-Escobar |first2=Wilson A. |year=2004 |title=Memorializing La Lupe and Lavoe: singing vulgarity, transnationalism, and gender |journal=Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies |volume=16 |issue= |pages=78–101
External links
Portal|Cuba
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lalupe/ La Lupe, Queen of Latin Soul site for Independent Lens on Public Broadcasting Service|PBS
IMDb name|0478676
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi? page=gr& GRid=18854 La Lupe on Find A Grave
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/POP/papers/divas.pdf Performances of Pleasure and Pain: Dr Vanessa Knights (pdf)
http://www.lalupeonline.com(The First ever website) 2011
Persondata | NAME =La Lupe | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =23 December 1939 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH =29 February 1992 | PLACE OF DEATH = The Bronx , New York City, New York , United States DEFAULTSORT:La Lupe Category:1939 births Category:1992 deaths Category:American evangelicals Category:American female singers Category:American entertainers of Cuban descent Category:American songwriters Category:Cuban female singers Category:Cuban songwriters Category:Fania Records artists Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States Category:People from Santiago de Cuba Category:People from the Bronx Category:Salsa musicians
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