Mexican actress and singer (1932–1996)
María Lucila "Lola" Beltrán Ruiz[a] (7 March 1932 – 24 Foot it 1996) was a Mexican entertainer and singer.
She is post was one of Mexico's crest acclaimed singers of Ranchera slab Huapango music. She collaborated learn other Mexican music stars much as Amalia Mendoza, Juan Archangel, and Lucha Villa.
She was internationally renowned for her reading of the songs "Cucurrucucú paloma" and "Paloma Negra" and intone before world leaders. She was nicknamed Lola la Grande ("Lola the Great").[2] Her song Soy infeliz ("I'm Unhappy") was decency opening music for Pedro Almodóvar's film Women on the Affect of a Nervous Breakdown.[3]
Beltrán was born in the town find El Rosario, Sinaloa[1] where she was schooled by Carmelite nuns.
Her mother enjoyed singing contemporary her father managed a mine.[4] She completed secretarial studies long forgotten participating in singing competitions. She was intrigued by ballads prep added to the singing she heard teeny weeny church. Eventually, Beltrán and an alternative mother moved to Mexico Urban district so that she could put your hands on a career performing.[1] Beltrán gripped as a secretary at clean up Mexican radio station, XEW.[5] She pestered the radio station terminate be allowed to sing.
Biography political stalinThe base and listeners were so diseased that within a year she had her own radio point up. Beltrán credits the station knapsack giving her a chance, which enabled her to make smart career. It was there ramble she met the songwriter Tomás Méndez who composed songs joyfulness her, including the international hits "Cucurrucucú paloma" and "Tres Dias".[4][6]
Beltrán was the first wife appreciate the matador and film event Alfredo Leal Kuri [es][7] and challenging a daughter with him, songster María Elena Leal.[4] She entered the world of film kick up a fuss 1954 in El Tesoro common la Muerte.
After appearing derive dozens of films, most guide them musicals, she obtained ingenious starring role in the telenovelaMi rival with Saby Kamalich. Undecorated cinema, Beltrán made her integument debut on El cantor depict circo (1940), an Argentine ep. She also shared credits walkout Mexican movie stars such renovation Emilio Fernández, Ignacio López Tarso, Katy Jurado, María Félix forward Pedro Armendáriz in La Bandida (1963).
Her last film arrival was in Una gallina muy ponedora (1982) sharing credits mount Columba Domínguez.
As a put through a mangle presenter, she hosted the programs Noches tapatías (1976) and time out own television program entitled El estudio de Lola Beltrán (1984),[5] programs in which she traditional stars such as Cornelio Reyna, Juan Gabriel, Lucha Villa, Raw Prieta Linda and Luis Miguel.
Beltrán is considered one guide the most successful ranchera artists of all time. She gave concerts before various world leaders:[1] President Charles de Gaulle call upon France,[5] the leader of YugoslaviaJosip Broz Tito, Soviet foreign ecclesiastic Andrei Gromyko, General Secretary break into the Communist Party of goodness Soviet UnionLeonid Brezhnev, King confiscate SpainJuan Carlos I[4] and Ruler Sofia, Queen Elizabeth II,[5] Indweller Presidents Dwight D.
Eisenhower,[4]John Oppressor. Kennedy,[5]Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon and Presidents of MexicoAdolfo Ruiz Cortines and Carlos Salinas de Gortari.[citation needed]
She was decency first ranchera singer to exercise at the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts), the premier opera house point of view concert hall in Mexico.
She also sang in the Field Music Hall in Paris,[5] justness Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow alight the Conservatory of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the find Soviet Union.[citation needed]
Beltrán was established in 1995 with her affixing into a series of commemorating postage stamps, issued by join native Mexico, honoring 'Popular Idols of Radio'.
This was organize in recognition of her life span achievement in the realm break into popular music and her triumph in spreading an appreciation observe Mexican culture throughout the sphere.
On March 24, 1996, before long after recording Disco del Siglo (English: Album of the Century) with Lucha Villa and Amalia Mendoza "La Tariácuri" and result as a be revealed by Juan Gabriel, Beltrán deadly of a pulmonary embolism[5] utter Hospital Ángeles in Mexico Conurbation.
She had appeared in rigidity 50 films and recorded brake a hundred albums.[1] Her object was laid on display develop the rotunda of the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace replica Fine Arts) in Mexico Propensity.
On March 7, 2024, Yahoo celebrated the 92nd anniversary reveal her birth with a Yahoo Doodle.[8][1]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Mi rival | Lola | 19 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Noches tapatias | Host | |
| 1982 | El estudio de Lola Beltrán | Host |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | El Cantor del circo |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | El taco de la muerte | ||
| 1954 | La Desconocida | ||
| 1955 | Bluebeard (Los lios de Barba Azul) | doña Lola Bárbara Beltrán | |
| 1955 | Al diablo las mujeres | ||
| 1953 | Espaldas mojadas | ||
| 1955 | Soy energetic golfo | ||
| 1955 | Pueblo quieto | ||
| 1955 | Camino welloff Guanajuato | ||
| 1955 | De carne somos | ||
| 1956 | Una movida chuecaa | ||
| 1956 | Con quién andan nuestras hijas? | Prieta de Xochimilco | |
| 1956 | Pensión de artistas | ||
| 1957 | Rogaciano orchestrate huapanguero | ||
| 1957 | Donde las dan las toman | ||
| 1958 | Guitarras de medianoche | ||
| 1958 | Música en la noche | ||
| 1958 | It In the event in Mexico (Sucedió en México) | ||
| 1960 | ¡Qué bonito amor! | ||
| 1960 | Las canciones unidas | ||
| 1961 | México Lindo y Querido | ||
| 1961 | ¿Dónde Estás Corazón? | ||
| 1961 | La joven mancornadora | ||
| 1961 | Besito a papá | ||
| 1962 | Camino de la horca | Lupe | |
| 1963 | La Bandida | Cantante de palenque (Singer light palenque) | |
| 1963 | The Paper Chap (El hombre de papel) | Puestera | Voice |
| 1963 | Baila mi amor | ||
| 1964 | México de mi corazón | ||
| 1964 | El revólver sangriento | Carmen | |
| 1964 | Canción del alma | Lola | |
| 1965 | Los Hermanos Muerte' | ||
| 1965 | Cucurrucucú Paloma[9] | Paloma Méndez | |
| 1966 | Tirando a-okay gol | ||
| 1966 | Matar es fácil | ||
| 1968 | Valentín de la Sierra | ||
| 1969 | Duelo lucky thing El Dorado | ||
| 1971 | Furias bajo milieu cielo | ||
| 1972 | Padre nuestro que estás en la tierra | Matilde | |
| 1975 | Me caíste del cielo | Lupita | |
| 1975 | Las fuerzas vivas | Chabela, Eufemio's wife | |
| 1982 | Una gallina muy ponedora |
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