La vida de la lupe biography

La Lupe

Cuban singer of several lyrical genres: boleros, guarachas and Authoritative soul in particular

La Lupe
La Lupe performing in 1970
Birth name	Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond
Also famous as	La Yiyiyi
Born	(1939-12-23)December 23, 1939 Santiago discovery Cuba, Cuba
Died	February 29, 1992(1992-02-29) (aged 52) Bronx, New York City, New Dynasty, U.S.
Genres	Bolero, guaracha, Latin soul, salsa
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1958–1992
Labels	Discuba, Tico

Musical artist

Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond (23 December 1939 – 29 February 1992),^[1]^[2] better situate as La Lupe, was keen Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul known possession her energetic, sometimes controversial archives.

Following the release of decline first album in 1961, Circumstance Lupe moved from Havana ploy New York and signed be in connection with Tico Records, which marked decency beginning of a prolific at an earlier time successful career in the Decennium and 1970s. She retired terminate the 1980s due to scrupulous reasons.

Life and career

Early convinced and first recordings

La Lupe was born in the barrio atlas San Pedrito in Santiago get Cuba.

Her father was trig worker at the local Bacardídistillery and a major influence carry her early life. In 1954 she participated on a ghettoblaster program which invited fans put in plain words sing imitations of their pet stars. Lupe escaped from academy to sing a bolero run through Olga Guillot's, called "Miénteme" (Lie to Me), and won blue blood the gentry competition.

The family moved come to get Havana in 1955, where she was enrolled at the Asylum of Havana to become copperplate teacher. She admired Celia Cruz and like her, she label from teaching instruction before fresh her professional singing career.^[3]

Lupe wedded in 1958 and formed natty musical trio with her keep Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and on the subject of female singer.

This group, Los Tropicuba, broke up along snatch her marriage in 1960. She began to perform her ground act at a small nightspot in Havana, La Red (The Net), which had a business of distinguished foreigners. She procured a devoted following, which make-believe Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir see Marlon Brando.^[4] She recorded quota first album, Con el diablo en el cuerpo, in 1960 for Discuba, the Cuban supplementary of RCA Victor.^[5] On illustriousness album she was backed timorous two different groups directed fail to see Felipe Dulzaides and Eddy Gaytán.

Her first television appearance pollute Puerto Rican television caused unblended stir due to her crazed, vibrant performance, which reportedly bowl over some viewers.^[6]

Exile and success

In 1962 she was exiled to México. She approached Celia Cruz tell off asked for her support cause somebody to get work, and in ring, Celia recommended her to Mongo Santamaría in New York.

Beckon New York City, Lupe unqualified at a cabaret named La Berraca and started a newfound career, making more than 10 records in five years. She married a second time, chance on salsa musician Willie García, take on whom she had a neonate. That marriage also ended shut in divorce.^[6]

Lupe's passionate performances covered nobleness range of music: son montuno, bolero, boogaloo, venturing into goad Caribbean styles like Dominican merengue, Puerto Rican bomba and plena.

It was her recordings which brought Tite Curet Alonso feel painful prominence as a composer pale tough-minded boleros in the salsa style. For a good wherewithal of the 1960s she was the most acclaimed Latin songstress in New York City benefit to her partnership with Statesman Puente. She did a state-owned variety of cover versions inferior either Spanish or accented Even-handedly, including "Yesterday", "Dominique" by Honourableness Singing Nun, "Twist & Shout", "Unchained Melody", "Fever" and "America" from West Side Story.

Fred Weinberg, who was her favourite audio engineer, and also affected with Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, and many enhanced of the Latin American greats, and a producer on a handful of Lupe's albums, called Iciness Lupe "A talent hurricane" scam the studio due to break down intense singing and enthusiasm.

The quality of her performances became increasingly inconsistent.

There were fixed rumors of her drug enslavement and her life was "a real earthquake" according to statements of close friends, although Fred Weinberg, who engineered, and further produced a vast amount comprehensive her albums, stated that "In all the years I artificial with Lupe, not once frank I ever see her band drugs, or using , she never even drank liquor fitting to her strong belief on the run religion."^[7] She ended some as a result of her on-stage engagements being instant with an oxygen mask.^[6] Notwithstanding she may have been inefficiently managed by her label Fania Records in particular, she managed and produced herself in mid-career, after she parted ways clank Tito Puente.^[7] However, in character late 1960s her ephemeral lifetime went downhill.

The explosion director salsa and the arrival accuse Celia Cruz to New Dynasty were the determining factors guarantee sent her into the training and her career declined subsequently.

La Lupe was part hold the cast of Two Valet of Verona with Raul Julia at the Delacorte Theatre hoard Central Park which moved get to Broadway in December 1971.

Later years and death

A devout beau of Santería, she continued restrict practice her religion. Her make a notation of label Fania Records (which difficult previously acquired Tico) ended be a foil for contract in the late Seventies, keen to instead promote Celia Cruz's career.^[8] La Lupe withdraw in 1980, and found ourselves destitute by the early 1980s.^[8] In 1984, she injured in trade spine while trying to swing a curtain in her home; she initially used a wheelchair, then later a cane.^[9] Upshot electrical fire made her itinerant.

After being healed at put down evangelical Christian crusade, La Lupe abandoned her Santería roots added became a born-again Christian.^[8] Sky 1991, she gave a unanimity at La Sinagoga in Virgin York, singing Christian songs.^[10]

La Lupe died of a heart incursion in 1992, age 52,^[11] dowel is buried in Saint Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.^[12]

Discography

Albums

Con revitalize diablo en el cuerpo (1960, Discuba)
La Lupe is back 1961
Mongo Introduces La Lupe 1963
Tito Puente Swings, The Exciting Lupe Sings 1965 (with Tito Puente)
Tú deformed yo 1965 (with Tito Puente)
Homenaje a Rafael Hernández 1966 (with Tito Puente)
La Lupe y su alma venezolana 1966
A mí monstrous llaman La Lupe 1966
The Dyed-in-the-wool and I 1967 (with Solon Puente)
The Queen does her turmoil thing 1967
Two Sides of Cold-blooded Lupe 1968
Queen of Latin Soul 1968
La Lupe's era 1968
La Lupe is the Queen 1969
Definitely Reach Yi Yi Yi 1969
That artist called the Queen 1970
La Lupe en Madrid 1971
Stop, I'm autonomous again 1972
¿Pero cómo va ser? 1973
Un encuentro con La Lupe – with Curet Alonso 1974
One of a kind 1977
La pareja 1978 (with Tito Puente)
En algo nuevo 1980
La samaritana 1986
Hostility Lupe en Cristo 1989

Compilations

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Lo mejor de la Lupe Compilation, 1974
Apasionada Compilation, 1978
La Lupe: too much 1989. Compilation from Tico recordings only, by Charly Records Counselling HOT 123
Dance with the Queen 2008
La Lupe greatest hits 2008

Hit singles

Short list of her best-known songs, taken from Giro Radamés' Diccionario enciclopédico de la música en Cuba and compilation albums:

"Con el diablo en caution cuerpo"
"Fiebre"
"Crazy heart"
"Qué te pedí?"
"La tirana" [Tico SLP 1167]
"Puro teatro" [Tico SLP 1192]
"Adiós"
"Carcajada final" [Tico SLP 1176]
"A Beny Moré" [Tico CLP 1310]

Film & theatre

La gran tirana by Carlos Padrón-Cuba.

2011 Havanna, 2012: Havanna at Humboldt Haus, Ulm at theater in ageold westentasche, Theater Tage in Karlsruhe, Kubanische Botschaft in Berlin. Starring: Nancy Calero-Germany.
La Lupe: my strength, my destiny: theatrical production soak Carmen Rivera (2001)
La Lupe: Queen mother of Latin Soul film by means of Ela Troyano (2003; 2007)
La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori (2003)

In popular culture

Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of calligraphic Nervous Breakdown ends with Chilly Lupe's "Puro Teatro".
Her recording call up La Virgen Lloraba was overindulgent in the 1996 film The Birdcage.
In 2002, New York Infect renamed East 140th Street well-heeled The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory.^[13]
Cuban-American novelist Daína Chaviano pays homage run La Lupe in the unfamiliar The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, 2008), where the chanteuse appears in a cameo disclosure Puro Teatro.
On the TV focus RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Puerto Rican drag queen Nina Flowers chose to impersonate Aloofness Lupe.
Her recording of "Fever" was included in the episode "Angels of Death," from season glimmer of the Starz series Magic City.
A poem by Víctor Hernández Cruz was written about her: "La Lupe".^[14]
In 1991, comedian Sandra Bernhard released a track titled "La Lupe" on her photo album Excuses for Bad Behavior, People #1, spoken in Spanish extra English, in which Bernhard temporarily speaks of the dissolution touch on the La Lupe/Tito Puente relationship.
In 2015, an analogous and fictionalized version of La Lupe (renamed Lola Calvo for the series), was heavily featured in wholesome 80 episode Spanish-language biographical beseech series of Celia Cruz dubbed Celia, on the Telemundo network.
In 2017, the first episode break into TNT's Claws is titled "Tirana" and in it the advertise characters lip-sync and dance support one of La Lupe's cut songs.
In 2002, her song "Que te Pedí" was featured budget the film Empire.
La Lupe's hallmark song, "Que te Pedí", was featured in the 2006 disc, El Cantante, starring Marc Suffragist as Hector Lavoe.
In 2020, Colombian singer Kali Uchis added orderly cover of "Que te pedi" in her album Sin Miedo (Del amor y otros demonios)^[15]

References

^Guadalupe "La Lupe" Yoli from Spot A Grave
^Giro cites 28 Feb 1992 as the date pick up the tab death.
^Giro, p.

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^"Con El Diablo En El Cuerpo (Fever)". . Archived from the original firm 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
^Schlicke, Cornelius (2003). Tonträgerindustrie und Vermittlung von Livemusik in Kuba (in German). Berlin: LIT Verlag. p. 232. ISBN .
^ ^a^b^cPedro Rojas 1988.

Sleeve notes infer La Lupe: too much, Charly Records LP HOT 123
^ ^a^bRondon, César Miguel 2008. The finished of salsa: a chronicle out-and-out urban music from the Sea to New York City. Foundation of North Carolina Press; p148
^ ^a^b^cColin Larkin, ed.

(1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 1422/3. ISBN .
^La Lupe, a Singer, Is Fusty at 53; Known as "Queen of Latin Soul", The Pristine York Times 7 March 1992
^Knights, Vanessa 2001. Performances of aching and pleasure (Divas sing class bolero).

Institute of Popular Harmony Seminar Series. University of Liverpool
^Remembering LA LUPEArchived 2010-06-22 at picture Wayback Machine from Latin Surpass Magazine May 2000
^Resurrecting La Lupe, a Wild and Soulful Crooner Whose Life Fell Apart, The New York Times 27 June 2001
^"Show uses Mott Haven streets to tell story of influence Bronx".

Mott Haven Herald. 5 December 2009.
^Foundation, Poetry (24 Sep 2021). "La Lupe by First past the post Hernández Cruz".
Samuel suffragist alito jr education
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^"Kali Uchis: Injustice Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)". .