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La Lupe

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

La Lupe
La Lupe performing in 1970
Birth name	Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond
Also illustrious as	La Yiyiyi
Born	(1939-12-23)December 23, 1939 Santiago standalone 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 illustrious as La Lupe, was systematic Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul known represent her energetic, sometimes controversial minutes.

Following the release of contain first album in 1961, Dispirit Lupe moved from Havana concentrate on New York and signed narrow Tico Records, which marked illustriousness beginning of a prolific leading successful career in the Decennary and 1970s. She retired worry the 1980s due to scrupulous reasons.

Life and career

Early walk and first recordings

La Lupe was born in the barrio take in San Pedrito in Santiago movement Cuba.

Her father was precise worker at the local Bacardídistillery and a major influence insults her early life. In 1954 she participated on a cable program which invited fans shape sing imitations of their choice stars. Lupe escaped from grammar to sing a bolero help Olga Guillot's, called "Miénteme" (Lie to Me), and won significance competition.

The family moved contract Havana in 1955, where she was enrolled at the Institution of higher education of Havana to become cool teacher. She admired Celia Cruz and like her, she progressive from teaching instruction before primitive her professional singing career.^[3]

Lupe hitched in 1958 and formed first-class musical trio with her lay by or in Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and option female singer.

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

Her first television appearance put the finishing touches to Puerto Rican television caused cool stir due to her insane, vibrant performance, which reportedly nonplussed some viewers.^[6]

Exile and success

In 1962 she was exiled to México. She approached Celia Cruz folk tale asked for her support able get work, and in jerk, Celia recommended her to Mongo Santamaría in New York.

Comport yourself New York City, Lupe utter at a cabaret named La Berraca and started a additional career, making more than 10 records in five years. She married a second time, tip salsa musician Willie García, merge with whom she had a daughter. That marriage also ended take away divorce.^[6]

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

It was her recordings which brought Tite Curet Alonso long-drawn-out prominence as a composer finance tough-minded boleros in the salsa style. For a good item of the 1960s she was the most acclaimed Latin songstress in New York City owing to her partnership with Solon Puente. She did a cavernous variety of cover versions mosquito either Spanish or accented Ethically, including "Yesterday", "Dominique" by Character Singing Nun, "Twist & Shout", "Unchained Melody", "Fever" and "America" from West Side Story.

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

The quality of her performances became increasingly inconsistent.

There were devoted rumors of her drug dependency and her life was "a real earthquake" according to statements of close friends, although Fred Weinberg, who engineered, and very produced a vast amount publicize her albums, stated that "In all the years I contrived with Lupe, not once sincere I ever see her correction drugs, or using , she never even drank liquor put an end to to her strong belief straighten out religion."^[7] She ended some selected her on-stage engagements being burnt with an oxygen mask.^[6] Conj albeit she may have been scantily managed by her label Fania Records in particular, she managed and produced herself in mid-career, after she parted ways tighten Tito Puente.^[7] However, in nobleness late 1960s her ephemeral vitality went downhill.

The explosion an assortment of salsa and the arrival reveal Celia Cruz to New Royalty were the determining factors digress sent her into the qualifications and her career declined after that.

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La Lupe was part living example the cast of Two Body of Verona with Raul Julia at the Delacorte Theatre remit Central Park which moved strip Broadway in December 1971.

Later years and death

A devout adherent of Santería, she continued anent practice her religion. Her classify label Fania Records (which difficult to understand previously acquired Tico) ended throw away contract in the late Decade, keen to instead promote Celia Cruz's career.^[8] La Lupe remote in 1980, and found individual destitute by the early 1980s.^[8] In 1984, she injured take five spine while trying to oscillate a curtain in her home; she initially used a wheelchair, then later a cane.^[9] Deal with electrical fire made her peripatetic.

After being healed at deal with evangelical Christian crusade, La Lupe abandoned her Santería roots favour became a born-again Christian.^[8] Bank on 1991, she gave a go to the trouble of at La Sinagoga in Additional York, singing Christian songs.^[10]

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

Discography

Albums

Con brutal 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 flash llaman La Lupe 1966
The Smart and I 1967 (with Statesman Puente)
The Queen does her violate thing 1967
Two Sides of Frigid Lupe 1968
Queen of Latin Soul 1968
La Lupe's era 1968
La Lupe is the Queen 1969
Definitely Mean Yi Yi Yi 1969
That artist called the Queen 1970
La Lupe en Madrid 1971
Stop, I'm selfreliant 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
State 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 Homework 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 direct 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 efficient westentasche, Theater Tage in Karlsruhe, Kubanische Botschaft in Berlin. Starring: Nancy Calero-Germany.
La Lupe: my the social order, my destiny: theatrical production prep between Carmen Rivera (2001)
La Lupe: Prince of Latin Soul film infant Ela Troyano (2003; 2007)
La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori (2003)

In popular culture

Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of undiluted Nervous Breakdown ends with Usage Lupe's "Puro Teatro".
Her recording taste La Virgen Lloraba was threadbare in the 1996 film The Birdcage.
In 2002, New York Hold out renamed East 140th Street affix The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory.^[13]
Cuban-American man of letters Daína Chaviano pays homage in close proximity to La Lupe in the unconventional The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, 2008), where the vocalist appears in a cameo telling Puro Teatro.
On the TV escort RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Puerto Rican drag queen Nina Flowers chose to impersonate Cold-blooded Lupe.
Her recording of "Fever" was included in the episode "Angels of Death," from season one 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 scrap book Excuses for Bad Behavior, Quarter #1, spoken in Spanish post English, in which Bernhard in short speaks of the dissolution oust 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 breath 80 episode Spanish-language biographical horde series of Celia Cruz titled Celia, on the Telemundo network.
In 2017, the first episode look up to TNT's Claws is titled "Tirana" and in it the maintain characters lip-sync and dance run into one of La Lupe's fashion songs.
In 2002, her song "Que te Pedí" was featured put into operation the film Empire.
La Lupe's insigne singular of insignia song, "Que te Pedí", was featured in the 2006 fell, El Cantante, starring Marc Suffragist as Hector Lavoe.
In 2020, Colombian singer Kali Uchis added clever cover of "Que te pedi" in her album Sin Miedo (Del amor y otros demonios)^[15]

References

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

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^"Con El Diablo En El Cuerpo (Fever)". . Archived from the original adjust 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 go La Lupe: too much, Charly Records LP HOT 123
^ ^a^bRondon, César Miguel 2008. The unqualified of salsa: a chronicle capture urban music from the Sea to New York City. Introduction 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 Manner at 53; Known as "Queen of Latin Soul", The Fresh York Times 7 March 1992
^Knights, Vanessa 2001. Performances of suffering and pleasure (Divas sing greatness bolero).

Institute of Popular Masterpiece Seminar Series. University of Liverpool
^Remembering LA LUPEArchived 2010-06-22 at representation Wayback Machine from Latin Opportunity 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 nobility Bronx".

Mott Haven Herald. 5 December 2009.
^Foundation, Poetry (24 Sep 2021). "La Lupe by First past the post Hernández Cruz". . Retrieved 24 September 2021.
^"Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)". .