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La Lupe

Cuban singer of several musical genres: boleros, guarachas and Latin soul in particular

La Lupe
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Birth name	Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond
Also famous as	La Yiyiyi
Born	()December 23, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Died	February 29, () (aged&#;52) Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres	Bolero, guaracha, Latin soul, salsa
Occupation	Singer
Years active	–
Labels	Discuba, Tico

Musical artist

Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond (23 December &#; 29 February ),^[1]^[2] better known as La Lupe, was a Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul known for her energetic, sometimes controversial performances.

Tracking the release of her first album in , La Lupe moved from Havana to Brand-new York and signed with Tico Records, which marked the first stage of a prolific and thriving career in the s and s. She retired in the s due to religious reasons.

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Life and career

Early life and first recordings

La Lupe was born in the barrio of San Pedrito in Santiago de Cuba. Her father was a worker at the local Bacardídistillery and a major influence on her prior life.

In she participated on a radio program which invited fans to sing imitations of their favorite stars. Lupe escaped from school to sing a bolero of Olga Guillot's, called "Miénteme" (Lie to Me), and won the competition.

The family moved to Havana in , where she was enrolled at the University of Havana to become a teacher. She admired Celia Cruz and like her, she graduated from teaching direction before starting her professional singing career.^[3]

Lupe married in and formed a musical trio with her husband Eulogio "Yoyo" Reyes and another female singer.

This collective, Los Tropicuba, broke up along with her marriage in She began to perform her control 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.^[4] She recorded her first album, Con el diablo en el cuerpo, in for Discuba, the Cuban subsidiary of RCA Victor.^[5] On the album she was backed by two different groups directed by Felipe Dulzaides and Eddy Gaytán.

Her first television appearance on Puerto Rican television caused a stir due to her frenzied, vibrant performance, which reportedly shocked some viewers.^[6]

Exile and success

In she was exiled to México.

She approached Celia Cruz and asked for her support to get operate, and in turn, Celia recommended her to Mongo Santamaría in New York. In New York City, Lupe performed at a cabaret named La Berraca and started a new career, making more than 10 records in five years.

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She married a second moment, to salsa musician Willie García, with whom she had a son. That marriage also ended in divorce.^[6]

Lupe's passionate performances covered the range of music: son montuno, bolero, boogaloo, venturing into other Caribbean styles like Dominican 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. For a wonderful part of the s she was the most acclaimed Latin singer in New York Metropolis due to her partnership with Tito Puente.

She did a wide variety of cover versions in either Spanish or accented English, including "Yesterday", "Dominique" by The Singing Nun, "Twist & Shout", "Unchained Melody", "Fever" and "America" from West Side Story. Fred Weinberg, who was her favorite audio engineer, and also worked with Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, and many more of the Latin American greats, and a producer on several of Lupe's albums, called La Lupe "A talent hurricane" in the studio due to her intense singing and enthusiasm.

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The quality of her performances became increasingly unreliable. There were persistent rumors of her drug addiction and her life was "a real earthquake" according to statements of nearby friends, although Fred Weinberg, who engineered, and also produced a vast amount of her albums, stated that "In all the years I worked with Lupe, not once did I ever see her on drugs, or using drugsHeck, she never even drank liquor due to her strong belief in religion."^[7] She ended some of her on-stage engagements being treated with an oxygen mask.^[6] 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.^[7] However, in the late s her ephemeral career went downhill.

The explosion of salsa and the arrival of Celia Cruz to New York were the determining factors that sent her into the background and her career declined thereafter.

La Lupe was part of the cast of Two Gentleman of Verona with Raul Julia at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park which moved to Broadway in December

Later years and death

A devout follower of Santería, she continued to practice her religion.

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Her record label Fania Records (which had previously acquired Tico) ended her contract in the adv s, keen to instead promote Celia Cruz's career.^[8] La Lupe retired in , and initiate herself destitute by the first s.^[8] In , she injured her spine while trying to hang a curtain in her home; she initially used a wheelchair, then later a cane.^[9] 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.^[8] In , she gave a concert at La Sinagoga in New York, singing Christian songs.^[10]

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

Discography

Albums

Con el diablo en el cuerpo (, Discuba)
La Lupe is back
Mongo Introduces La Lupe
Tito Puente Swings, The Exciting Lupe Sings (with Tito Puente)
Tú y yo (with Tito Puente)
Homenaje a Rafael Hernández (with Tito Puente)
La Lupe y su alma venezolana
A mí me llaman La Lupe
The King and I (with Tito Puente)
The Queen does her own thing
Two Sides of La Lupe
Queen of Latin Soul
La Lupe's era
La Lupe is the Queen
Definitely La Yi Yi Yi
That genius called the Queen
La Lupe en Madrid
Stop, I'm free again
¿Pero cómo va ser?
Un encuentro con La Lupe &#; with Curet Alonso
One of a kind
La pareja (with Tito Puente)
En algo nuevo
La samaritana
La Lupe en Cristo

Compilations

This section is not complete.

Lo mejor de la Lupe Compilation,
Apasionada Compilation,
La Lupe: too much Compilation from Tico recordings only, by Charly Records LP HOT
Dance with the Queen
La Lupe greatest hits

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 el cuerpo"
"Fiebre"
"Crazy heart"
"Qué te pedí?"
"La tirana" [Tico SLP ]
"Puro teatro" [Tico SLP ]
"Adiós"
"Carcajada final" [Tico SLP ]
"A Beny Moré" [Tico CLP ]

Film & theatre

La gran tirana by Carlos Padrón-Cuba.

Havanna, Havanna at Humboldt Haus, Ulm at theater in der westentasche, Theater Tage in Karlsruhe, Kubanische Botschaft in Berlin.
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Starring: Nancy Calero-Germany.
La Lupe: my life, my destiny: theatrical production by Carmen Rivera ()
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul film by Ela Troyano (; )
La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori ()

In popular culture

Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ends with La Lupe's "Puro Teatro".
Her recording of La Virgen Lloraba was used in the film The Birdcage.
In , New York City renamed East th Street in The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory.^[13]
Cuban-American writer Daína Chaviano pays homage to La Lupe in the novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, ), where the singer appears in a cameo singing Puro Teatro.
On the TV series RuPaul's Performative Race: All Stars, Puerto Rican drag queen Nina Flowers chose to impersonate La Lupe.
Her recording of "Fever" was included in the episode "Angels of Death," from season two of the Starz series Magic City.
A poem by Víctor Hernández Cruz was written about her: "La Lupe".^[14]
In , comedian Sandra Bernhard released a track called "La Lupe" on her album Excuses for Bad Behavior, Part #1, spoken in Spanish and English, in which Bernhard briefly speaks of the dissolution of the La Lupe/Tito Puente relationship.
In , an analogous and fictionalized version of La Lupe (renamed Lola Calvo for the series), was heavily featured in an 80 episode Spanish-language biographical television series of Celia Cruz called Celia, on the Telemundo network.
In , the first episode of TNT's Claws is titled "Tirana" and in it the main characters lip-sync and dance to one of La Lupe's signature songs.
In , her song "Que te Pedí" was featured in the movie Empire.
La Lupe's signature song, "Que te Pedí", was featured in the film, El Cantante, starring Marc Anthony as Hector Lavoe.
In , Colombian singer Kali Uchis added a cover of "Que te pedi" in her album Sin Miedo (Del amor y otros demonios)^[15]

References

^Guadalupe "La Lupe" Yoli from Find A Grave
^Giro cites 28 February as the spend time of death.
^Giro, p.

45
^"Con El Diablo En El Cuerpo (Fever)". . Archived from the imaginative on Retrieved
^Schlicke, Cornelius (). Tonträgerindustrie und Vermittlung von Livemusik in Kuba (in German).

Berlin: LIT Verlag. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
^ ^a^b^cPedro Rojas Sleeve notes to La Lupe: too much, Charly Records LP HOT
^ ^a^bRondon, César Miguel The book of salsa: a chronicle of urban song from the Caribbean to Fresh York City.

University of North Carolina Press; p
^ ^a^b^cColin Larkin, ed. ().
Following the emit of her first album inLa Lupe moved from Havana to New York and signed with Tico Recordswhich marked the launch of a prolific and victorious career in the s and s. She retired in the s due to religious reasons. In she participated on a radio program which invited fans to sing imitations of their favorite stars. The family moved to Havana inwhere she was enrolled at the University of Havana to become a teacher.
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Trendy Music (First&#;ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp.&#;/3. ISBN&#;.
^La Lupe, a Singer, Is Dead at 53; Known as "Queen of Latin Soul", The New York Times 7 Pride
^Knights, Vanessa Performances of pain and pleasure (Divas sing the bolero).
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Institute of Popular Music Seminar Series. University of Liverpool
^Remembering LA LUPEArchived at the Wayback Machine from Latin Beat Magazine May
^Resurrecting La Lupe, a Wild and Soulful Singer Whose Life Fell Apart, The New York Times 27 June
^"Show uses Mott Haven streets to tell story of the Bronx".

Mott Haven Herald. 5 December
^Foundation, Poetry (24 September ). "La Lupe by Victor Hernández Cruz". . Retrieved 24 September
^"Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)".

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