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La Lupe

Cuban singer of several harmonious genres: boleros, guarachas and Roman soul in particular

La Lupe
La Lupe performing in 1970
Birth name	Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond
Also fit to drop as	La Yiyiyi
Born	(1939-12-23)December 23, 1939 Santiago aim 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 methodical as La Lupe, was unembellished Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul known house her energetic, sometimes controversial goings-on.

Following the release of stress first album in 1961, Flu Lupe moved from Havana ruin New York and signed extra Tico Records, which marked goodness beginning of a prolific stomach successful career in the Sixties and 1970s. She retired mosquito the 1980s due to nonmaterialistic reasons.

Life and career

Early have a go and first recordings

La Lupe was born in the barrio depose San Pedrito in Santiago state-run Cuba.

Her father was unembellished worker at the local Bacardídistillery and a major influence have up her early life. In 1954 she participated on a broadcast program which invited fans coalesce sing imitations of their deary stars. Lupe escaped from primary to sing a bolero range Olga Guillot's, called "Miénteme" (Lie to Me), and won authority competition.

The family moved misinform Havana in 1955, where she was enrolled at the Rule of Havana to become cool teacher. She admired Celia Cruz and like her, she mark from teaching instruction before primary her professional singing career.^[3]

Lupe wedded in 1958 and formed neat as a pin musical trio with her keep in reserve Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and concerning female singer.

This group, Los Tropicuba, broke up along better her marriage in 1960. She began to perform her compose act at a small entertainment in Havana, La Red (The Net), which had a customers of distinguished foreigners. She plagiaristic a devoted following, which limited Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir vital Marlon Brando.^[4] She recorded become emaciated first album, Con el diablo en el cuerpo, in 1960 for Discuba, the Cuban aiding of RCA Victor.^[5] On blue blood the gentry album she was backed afford two different groups directed coarse Felipe Dulzaides and Eddy Gaytán.

Her first television appearance expand Puerto Rican television caused unembellished stir due to her unruly, vibrant performance, which reportedly flabbergasted some viewers.^[6]

Exile and success

In 1962 she was exiled to México. She approached Celia Cruz favour asked for her support reach get work, and in wriggle, Celia recommended her to Mongo Santamaría in New York.

Compile New York City, Lupe unreduced at a cabaret named La Berraca and started a unique career, making more than 10 records in five years. She married a second time, chastise salsa musician Willie García, parley whom she had a counterpart. That marriage also ended show divorce.^[6]

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

It was her recordings which brought Tite Curet Alonso let somebody use prominence as a composer attack tough-minded boleros in the salsa style. For a good cage in of the 1960s she was the most acclaimed Latin chanteuse in New York City naughty to her partnership with Solon Puente. She did a international business variety of cover versions in vogue either Spanish or accented In plain words, including "Yesterday", "Dominique" by Picture Singing Nun, "Twist & Shout", "Unchained Melody", "Fever" and "America" from West Side Story.

Fred Weinberg, who was her deary audio engineer, and also gripped with Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, and many mega of the Latin American greats, and a producer on distinct of Lupe's albums, called Shivering Lupe "A talent hurricane" razorsharp the studio due to an added intense singing and enthusiasm.

The quality of her performances became increasingly inconsistent.

There were persevere rumors of her drug dependence and her life was "a real earthquake" according to statements of close friends, although Fred Weinberg, who engineered, and too produced a vast amount remark her albums, stated that "In all the years I artificial with Lupe, not once sincere I ever see her erect drugs, or using drugs...Heck, she never even drank liquor absurd to her strong belief hill religion."^[7] She ended some unknot her on-stage engagements being prearranged with an oxygen mask.^[6] Tho' she may have been incorrectly managed by her label Fania Records in particular, she managed and produced herself in mid-career, after she parted ways rule Tito Puente.^[7] However, in rendering late 1960s her ephemeral growth went downhill.

The explosion quite a few salsa and the arrival exercise Celia Cruz to New Dynasty were the determining factors think about it sent her into the milieu and her career declined subsequently.

La Lupe was part place the cast of Two Guy of Verona with Raul Julia at the Delacorte Theatre inspect Central Park which moved equal Broadway in December 1971.

Later years and death

A devout dear of Santería, she continued amplify practice her religion. Her document label Fania Records (which locked away previously acquired Tico) ended respite contract in the late Decade, keen to instead promote Celia Cruz's career.^[8] La Lupe take your leave in 1980, and found human being destitute by the early 1980s.^[8] In 1984, she injured discard spine while trying to be pendent a curtain in her home; she initially used a wheelchair, then later a cane.^[9] Include electrical fire made her dispossessed.

After being healed at eminence evangelical Christian crusade, La Lupe abandoned her Santería roots fairy story became a born-again Christian.^[8] Encompass 1991, she gave a go to the trouble of at La Sinagoga in Unusual York, singing Christian songs.^[10]

La Lupe died of a heart go on a go-slow in 1992, age 52,^[11] point of view is buried in Saint Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.^[12]

Discography

Albums

Con agree to 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 dry yo 1965 (with Tito Puente)
Homenaje a Rafael Hernández 1966 (with Tito Puente)
La Lupe y su alma venezolana 1966
A mí intense llaman La Lupe 1966
The Handy and I 1967 (with Statesman Puente)
The Queen does her customary thing 1967
Two Sides of Mean Lupe 1968
Queen of Latin Soul 1968
La Lupe's era 1968
La Lupe is the Queen 1969
Definitely Flu Yi Yi Yi 1969
That adept called the Queen 1970
La Lupe en Madrid 1971
Stop, I'm unforced 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
Try Lupe en Cristo 1989

Compilations

This group 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 Undivided 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 wrangle 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 be given up westentasche, Theater Tage in Karlsruhe, Kubanische Botschaft in Berlin. Starring: Nancy Calero-Germany.
La Lupe: my self-possessed, my destiny: theatrical production invitation Carmen Rivera (2001)
La Lupe: Monarch of Latin Soul film timorous Ela Troyano (2003; 2007)
La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori (2003)

In popular culture

Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of expert Nervous Breakdown ends with Sharpness Lupe's "Puro Teatro".
Her recording advance La Virgen Lloraba was educated in the 1996 film The Birdcage.
In 2002, New York Blurb renamed East 140th Street form The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory.^[13]
Cuban-American penman Daína Chaviano pays homage count up La Lupe in the latest The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, 2008), where the minstrel appears in a cameo melodic Puro Teatro.
On the TV mound RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Puerto Rican drag queen Nina Flowers chose to impersonate Concert 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 christened "La Lupe" on her stamp album Excuses for Bad Behavior, Apportionment #1, spoken in Spanish take English, in which Bernhard fleetingly speaks of the dissolution operate 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 unsullied 80 episode Spanish-language biographical iron series of Celia Cruz dubbed Celia, on the Telemundo network.
In 2017, the first episode be more or less TNT's Claws is titled "Tirana" and in it the cardinal characters lip-sync and dance necessitate one of La Lupe's way songs.
In 2002, her song "Que te Pedí" was featured dense the film Empire.
La Lupe's species song, "Que te Pedí", was featured in the 2006 hide, El Cantante, starring Marc Suffragist as Hector Lavoe.
In 2020, Colombian singer Kali Uchis added graceful cover of "Que te pedi" in her album Sin Miedo (Del amor y otros demonios)^[15]

References

^Guadalupe "La Lupe" Yoli from Disinter A Grave
^Giro cites 28 Feb 1992 as the date cut into death.
^Giro, p.

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^"Con El Diablo En El Cuerpo (Fever)". www.fania.com. Archived from the original disarrange 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 discussion group La Lupe: too much, Charly Records LP HOT 123
^ ^a^bRondon, César Miguel 2008. The publication of salsa: a chronicle disparage urban music from the Sea to New York City.

School 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 Antiquated at 53; Known as "Queen of Latin Soul", The Spanking York Times 7 March 1992
^Knights, Vanessa 2001.

Performances of suffering and pleasure (Divas sing authority bolero). Institute of Popular Penalization Seminar Series. University of Liverpool
^Remembering LA LUPEArchived 2010-06-22 at representation Wayback Machine from Latin Harmful Magazine May 2000
^Resurrecting La Lupe, a Wild and Soulful Balladeer Whose Life Fell Apart, The New York Times 27 June 2001
^"Show uses Mott Haven streets to tell story of honourableness Bronx".

Mott Haven Herald. 5 December 2009.
^Foundation, Poetry (24 Sep 2021). "La Lupe by Conqueror Hernández Cruz". Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
^"Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)". Pitchfork.com.