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Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife of Haitian descent who took care of an extended family. [3]
After that, the original Spanish-language version was very popular in Mexico and Cuba as well as being recorded by many of the greatest Bolero interpreters such as Los Panchos in 1951. [ 3 ] Covers of Solamente una vez
By the 1930s, when Trío Matamoros made famous their mix of bolero and son cubano known as bolero-son, the genre was a staple of the musical repertoire of most Latin American countries. [10] In Spain, Cuban bolero was incorporated into the copla repertoire with added elements from Andalusian music , giving rise to the so-called bolero moruno ...
Luis Enrique Gatica Silva (11 August 1928 – 13 November 2018), [1] better known as Lucho Gatica was a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host known as "the King of Bolero". He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential exponents of the bolero and one of the most popular of all time worldwide. [2]
By 1946, the trio's exceptional virtuosity and authenticity had attracted the attention of Edmund Chester at CBS Radio's Cadena de Las Americas (Network of the Americas). [6] [7] Los Panchos were immediately invited to perform as "musical ambassadors" on the network's Viva América program to support cultural diplomacy in twenty countries throughout Latin America and South America.
Rodríguez returned to Puerto Rico in 1966 and built a Japanese-style house in Ocean Park, Santurce, where he lived with his family. [12] Rodríguez produced his own television show called "El Show de Tito Rodríguez" which was transmitted through San Juan's television Channel 7 (whose call letters were WRIK-TV at the time).
DM-1256 Gracias America; DM-12561 Bravo (1967) D-1280 Olga Guillot No, Celoso (1967) DM-1312 Olga Le Canta a America (1967) DM-1360 Olga Guillot interpreta a Manzanero (1967) DM- 1384 Olga Guillot Interpreta sus Futuros Éxitos; EDM-1423 Olga Guillot Vol. 14 (1969) 1472 Olga Guillot Vol. 15 (1970) EDM-1472 La Mujer Que Te ama (1970)
In 1954 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 1955, where she was enrolled at the University of Havana to become a teacher.