![]() ![]() During the mid-1970s, she moved to Puerto Rico, where because of her performance style she was banned from television. Tito Puente ended his working relationship with her in 1968. She performed at Carnegie Hall and on several TV shows, including those hosted by Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin, Ed Sullivan, and Johnny Carson ( The Tonight Show). During the mid-to-late 1960s, she toured the United States, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Spain. By 1965, she had earned great success and married William García. While living in New York City, she performed and recorded with Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria and later with Tito Puente. Yolí traveled first to Mexico in January 1962, then Miami, Florida, and finally settled in New York City, New York by the end of that year. ![]() Her performance style has been described in terms of both a liberated sexuality and of religious possession, specifically pertaining to Santería. Her style of performing, deemed “Lupismo,” was now considered unacceptable. In 1961, she was summoned to a radio station and ordered to leave the nation. Yolí, however, ran afoul of the Cuban Revolution. She was successful enough to eventually buy her own club in Havana. In 1960, she divorced Reyes and began her solo career. In the same year she married Eulogio Reyes and they formed a musical trio, Los Tropicuba. In 1958, she finished a teaching degree and began teaching in Havana. She began singing in Havana during the 1950s, achieving popularity by 1957. In 1955, her family moved to Havana, where she won a radio contest as a teenager. Her parents divorced when she was nine, and thereafter she lived with her father and stepmother. She was born in San Pedrito, a locality within Santiago de Cuba, Oriente Province, Cuba on December 23, 1936. ![]() Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond, known popularly as “La Lupe,” was a Cuban and Cuban American singer and dancer. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |