Lola Beltrán
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Lola Beltrán (born María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz on March 7, 1932 in Rosario, Sinaloa – died March 24, 1996 in Mexico City) was one of the greatest Mexican ranchera singers, nicknamed Lola la Grande ("Lola the Great").
Biography
In her native town, Beltrán completed her secretarial studies while she participated in many singing competitions. She then moved to Mexico City where she worked at the radio station XEW. She was then discovered and invited to the show of composer Tata Nacho Así es mi tierra where she was praised by the audience.She married Alfredo Leal a matador and film actor and with him had two children: María Elena Leal, who is also a singer, and José Leal. She entered the world of film in 1954 starring in El tesoro de la muerte. After participating in dozens of films, most of them musicals, she obtained a role in the telenovela Mi rival with Saby Kamalich. In 1976 and 1984 she hosted the musical shows Noches tapatías and El estudio de Lola Beltrán respectively.
Beltrán is still considered with Lucha Reyes the most successful ranchera-music singer of all time. She sang before the president of France Charles de Gaulle, the leader of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, the soviet minister Andrei Gromiko, the prime minister of the Soviet Union Leonidas Breznev, the King of Spain Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the American presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon and the presidents of Mexico Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
She was the first ranchera singer to perform at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She also performed at the Olympia music hall in Paris, the Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow and the Conservatory of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the former Soviet Union.
Soon after recording Disco del Siglo with Lucha Villa and Amalia Mendoza "La Tariácuri" (produced by Juan Gabriel) she died of a massive pulmonary embolism at the Ángeles hospital of Mexico City.
Telenovelas
- Mi rival (1973)
Television shows
- El estudio de Lola Beltrán (1984)
- Noches tapatías (1976)
Films
- Una gallina muy ponedora (1982)
- Las fuerzas vivas (1975) as Chabela, Eufemio's wife
- Me caíste del cielo (1975) as Lupita
- Padre nuestro que estás en la tierra (1972) as Matilde
- Furias bajo el cielo (1971)
- Duelo en El Dorado (1969)
- Valentín de la Sierra (1968)
- Matar es fácil (1966)
- Tirando a gol (1966)
- Cucurrucucú Paloma (1965)
- Canción del alma (1964) as Lola
- El revólver sangriento (1964)
- México de mi corazón (1964)
- Baila mi amor (1963)
- El hombre de papel (1963)
- La bandida (1963)
- Camino de la horca (1962)
- Besito a papá (1961)
- La joven mancornadora (1961)
- ¿Donde estás, corazón? (1961)
- México lindo y querido (1961)
- Las canciones unidas (1960)
- ¡Qué bonito amor! (1960)
- Sucedió en México (1958)
- Música en la noche (1958)
- Guitarras de medianoche (1958)
- Donde las dan las toman (1957)
- Rogaciano el huapanguero (1957)
- Pensión de artistas (1956)
- Con quién andan nuestras hijas? (1956) as Prieta de Xochimilco
- Una movida chuecaa (1956)
- De carne somos (1955)
- Pueblo quieto (1955)
- Soy un golfo (1955)
- Espaldas mojadas (1955)
- Al diablo las mujeres (1955)
- El barba azul (1955)
- La desconocida (1954)
- El tesoro de la muerte (1954)
External links
- [Biography] at the New York Times
- () [Biography] at Red Escolar
- () [Profile] at Puro Mariachi
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