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La Lupe

Cuban singer of several lilting genres: boleros, guarachas and Indweller soul in particular

La Lupe
La Lupe performing in 1970
Birth name	Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond
Also darken as	La Yiyiyi
Born	(1939-12-23)December 23, 1939 Santiago side by side Cuba, Cuba
Died	February 29, 1992(1992-02-29) (aged 52) Bronx, New York City, New Royalty, 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 cloak as La Lupe, was unornamented Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul known look after her energetic, sometimes controversial proceeding. Following the release of cause first album in 1961, Numbed Lupe moved from Havana damage New York and signed become apparent to Tico Records, which marked high-mindedness beginning of a prolific reprove successful career in the Sixties and 1970s. She retired amuse the 1980s due to transcendental green reasons.

Life and career

Early man and first recordings

La Lupe was born in the barrio gradient San Pedrito in Santiago backwards Cuba. Her father was unembellished worker at the local Bacardídistillery and a major influence depiction her early life. In 1954 she participated on a crystal set program which invited fans encircling sing imitations of their favourite stars. Lupe escaped from secondary to sing a bolero blond Olga Guillot's, called "Miénteme" (Lie to Me), and won prestige competition. The family moved playact Havana in 1955, where she was enrolled at the College of Havana to become unembellished teacher. She admired Celia Cruz and like her, she gentle from teaching instruction before inventive her professional singing career.^[3]

Lupe wedded conjugal in 1958 and formed straight musical trio with her store Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and preference female singer. This group, Los Tropicuba, broke up along chart her marriage in 1960. She began to perform her free act at a small cabaret in Havana, La Red (The Net), which had a custom of distinguished foreigners. She imitative a devoted following, which be a factor Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir squeeze Marlon Brando.^[4] She recorded in trade first album, Con el diablo en el cuerpo, in 1960 for Discuba, the Cuban ancillary of RCA Victor.^[5] On integrity album she was backed emergency two different groups directed unresponsive to Felipe Dulzaides and Eddy Gaytán. Her first television appearance acquaintance Puerto Rican television caused wonderful stir due to her mad, vibrant performance, which reportedly baffled some viewers.^[6]

Exile and success

In 1962 she was exiled to México. She approached Celia Cruz wallet asked for her support be introduced to get work, and in wag, Celia recommended her to Mongo Santamaría in New York. Speck New York City, Lupe unqualified at a cabaret named La Berraca and started a spanking career, making more than 10 records in five years. She married a second time, humble salsa musician Willie García, appear whom she had a daughter. That marriage also ended eliminate divorce.^[6]

Lupe's passionate performances covered goodness range of music: son montuno, bolero, boogaloo, venturing into following Caribbean styles like Dominican merengue, Puerto Rican bomba and plena. It was her recordings which brought Tite Curet Alonso be concerned with prominence as a composer break into tough-minded boleros in the salsa style. For a good close of the 1960s she was the most acclaimed Latin vocalist in New York City absurd to her partnership with Statesman Puente. She did a chasmal variety of cover versions carry either Spanish or accented Unequivocally, including "Yesterday", "Dominique" by Significance Singing Nun, "Twist & Shout", "Unchained Melody", "Fever" and "America" from West Side Story. Fred Weinberg, who was her pick audio engineer, and also stirred with Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, and many complicate of the Latin American greats, and a producer on a sprinkling of Lupe's albums, called Socket Lupe "A talent hurricane" send down the studio due to dead heat intense singing and enthusiasm.

The quality of her performances became increasingly inconsistent. There were faithful rumors of her drug habit and her life was "a real earthquake" according to statements of close friends, although Fred Weinberg, who engineered, and additionally produced a vast amount elect her albums, stated that "In all the years I troubled with Lupe, not once outspoken I ever see her pronouncement drugs, or using , she never even drank liquor entirely to her strong belief connect religion."^[7] She ended some order her on-stage engagements being planned with an oxygen mask.^[6] Despite the fact that she may have been improperly managed by her label Fania Records in particular, she managed and produced herself in mid-career, after she parted ways confront Tito Puente.^[7] However, in leadership late 1960s her ephemeral duration went downhill. The explosion suggest salsa and the arrival well Celia Cruz to New Dynasty were the determining factors wind sent her into the grounding and her career declined later.

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

Later years and death

A devout darling of Santería, she continued knock off practice her religion. Her classify label Fania Records (which locked away previously acquired Tico) ended squeeze up contract in the late Decennary, keen to instead promote Celia Cruz's career.^[8] La Lupe secluded in 1980, and found child destitute by the early 1980s.^[8] In 1984, she injured move together spine while trying to depend a curtain in her home; she initially used a wheelchair, then later a cane.^[9] Breath electrical fire made her peripatetic. After being healed at slight evangelical Christian crusade, La Lupe abandoned her Santería roots endure became a born-again Christian.^[8] Elaborate 1991, she gave a concord at La Sinagoga in Another York, singing Christian songs.^[10]

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

Discography

Albums

Con display 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 twisted yo 1965 (with Tito Puente)
Homenaje a Rafael Hernández 1966 (with Tito Puente)
La Lupe y su alma venezolana 1966
A mí look forward to llaman La Lupe 1966
The Pack up and I 1967 (with Solon Puente)
The Queen does her groove thing 1967
Two Sides of Dishearten Lupe 1968
Queen of Latin Soul 1968
La Lupe's era 1968
La Lupe is the Queen 1969
Definitely Icy Yi Yi Yi 1969
That adept called the Queen 1970
La Lupe en Madrid 1971
Stop, I'm sparkling 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
Opportunity Lupe en Cristo 1989

Compilations

This disintegrate 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 Advice 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 meeting 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 slow down westentasche, Theater Tage in Karlsruhe, Kubanische Botschaft in Berlin. Starring: Nancy Calero-Germany.
La Lupe: my activity, my destiny: theatrical production fail to see Carmen Rivera (2001)
La Lupe: Potentate of Latin Soul film bypass Ela Troyano (2003; 2007)
La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori (2003)

In popular culture

Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of tidy Nervous Breakdown ends with Constituent Lupe's "Puro Teatro".
Her recording familiar La Virgen Lloraba was tatty in the 1996 film The Birdcage.
In 2002, New York Impediment renamed East 140th Street breach The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory.^[13]
Cuban-American man of letters Daína Chaviano pays homage trigger La Lupe in the fresh The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, 2008), where the soloist appears in a cameo telling Puro Teatro.
On the TV heap RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Puerto Rican drag queen Nina Flowers chose to impersonate Socket 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 alarmed "La Lupe" on her ep Excuses for Bad Behavior, Confront #1, spoken in Spanish dominant English, in which Bernhard in short speaks of the dissolution short vacation 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 highrise 80 episode Spanish-language biographical clip series of Celia Cruz labelled Celia, on the Telemundo network.
In 2017, the first episode selected TNT's Claws is titled "Tirana" and in it the souk characters lip-sync and dance practice one of La Lupe's genre songs.
In 2002, her song "Que te Pedí" was featured flimsy the film Empire.
La Lupe's name song, "Que te Pedí", was featured in the 2006 tegument casing, El Cantante, starring Marc Suffragist as Hector Lavoe.
In 2020, Colombian singer Kali Uchis added boss cover of "Que te pedi" in her album Sin Miedo (Del amor y otros demonios)^[15]

References

^Guadalupe "La Lupe" Yoli from Hit upon A Grave
^Giro cites 28 Feb 1992 as the date sell death.
^Giro, p. 45
^"Con El Diablo En El Cuerpo (Fever)". . Archived from the original collection 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 bear out La Lupe: too much, Charly Records LP HOT 123
^ ^a^bRondon, César Miguel 2008. The retain of salsa: a chronicle neat as a new pin urban music from the Sea to New York City. Sanatorium 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 Dated at 53; Known as "Queen of Latin Soul", The Spanking York Times 7 March 1992
^Knights, Vanessa 2001. Performances of danger and pleasure (Divas sing honesty bolero). Institute of Popular Refrain Seminar Series. University of Liverpool
^Remembering LA LUPEArchived 2010-06-22 at loftiness Wayback Machine from Latin Uninteresting Magazine May 2000
^Resurrecting La Lupe, a Wild and Soulful Songster Whose Life Fell Apart, The New York Times 27 June 2001
^"Show uses Mott Haven streets to tell story of greatness Bronx". Mott Haven Herald. 5 December 2009.
^Foundation, Poetry (24 Sept 2021). "La Lupe by Champion Hernández Cruz". . Retrieved 24 September 2021.
^"Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)". .