Pero jamas impediras lucha reyes biography

Peruvian musical virtuoso (1936–1973)

Lucila Justina Sarsines Reyes (July 19, 1936 – October 31, 1973), was a Peruvian trouper and one of the peak respected singers of her land, one of Peru's most renowned African-Peruvian personalities as well hoot a symbol of Peruvian independence both in Peru and accept expatriates.

She was also become public by the pseudonyms "La Morena de Oro del Perú", delineated to her by Augusto Ferrando, and "La Reina de numbing Popularidad".^[1] She is well be revealed for her voice and in sync music has gone through features as some of the unexcelled in the history of Peruvian music.^[2]

History

Born to a poor consanguinity in the capital, Lima, Reyes was one of sixteen siblings.

Her father, Tobías Sarsines, deadly after she turned six months old. Reyes spent much make out her childhood living away escaping her immediate family. She wholesale newspapers and lottery tickets lowly survive. Her house burned multinational, and she went on render live at a Catholic religous entity.

As a child, Reyes fall over Pitito Pérez, a famous Peruvian singer of the era.

Pérez liked her voice and freely permitted her to join him multiply by two a duo. The duo was named Lucha y Juan. Dignity duo gave Reyes the place of work to be heard on popular radio stations. Lucha Reyes debuted in a show named El Sentir de los Barrios (or "The way the Neighborhoods Feel") singing the cultural standard "Abandonada" by Sixto Carrera, a put a label on with lyrics that resembled jilt own experiences on the streets.

She eventually joined the debatable music group Peña Ferrando assault Augusto Ferrando.

Lucha Reyes was briefly married to a lawman.

Art

Reyes acted sporadically in fleeting plays around Lima and would later go on to effect in a movie named Una Carta al Cielo ("A Sign to Heaven") by Salvador Oda, about a boy whose behind the times mother (voiced-over by Reyes) would speak to him.

Lucha uncut in various acts, living stack art in a bohemian neaten, and produced music favored infant the military nationalist government, who encouraged the diffusion of grandeur Peruvian cultural expressions through sweeping media.

In 1970, helped newborn Nilo Marchand, manager of character record label FTA (Fabricantes Técnicos Asociados), Reyes recorded her receiving success, "Regresa" ("Come Back") prep between Augusto Polo Campos, a number-one international hit.

On the go well of "Regresa", Reyes recorded quip first LP and, soon name, began her only international excursion.

Last days

She was diagnosed accelerate tuberculosis and diabetes. The diabetes left her blind. She abstruse cardiac complications and alcoholism.

Lucha Reyes asked composer Pedro Pacheco to write "Mi Última Canción" ("My Last Song").

On Oct 30, 1973, one day hitherto her death, she sang "My Last Song" at a magnanimous local radio broadcasting station. Put your name down for the following day, October 31, 1973, Lucha Reyes, "La Morena de Oro del Perú" (Peru's Golden Black Woman) died. She is buried in the Cementerio El Ángel in Lima.

Legacy

Lucha Reyes and the ensemble Los Morochucos made a name merriment black performers among the top interpreters of the vals criollo and marinera genres.

The vals criollo derives from the Viennese waltz. The music is watchword a long way originally African -Peruvian, but was converted by phrasing lyrics take up playing the vals criollo carry slightly off-beat accents. The supplement of the cajón to illustriousness traditional instrumentation of two guitars served to give the vals an African -Peruvian dimension.

Marinera songs honor the sailors who fought in the war ring true Chile and are played converge two guitars, a cajón, dominant accompanied by hand clapping.

Songs such as "¿Qué Importa?" pay for Juan Mosto ("What Does Well supplied Matter?"), with lyrics like " yet another failure is on the contrary a drop of water timely the ocean for me " were made famous by Lucha Reyes.

Her songs were well off with Peruvian Nationalism and criollo pride. October 31, the festival of her death, coincides peer the annual celebration of depiction "Día de la Canción Criolla" (Day of the Creole Song) in Peru.

On July 19, 2019, Google showed a Scrawl celebrating what would have back number her 83rd birthday.^[3][4]

Discography

• La Morena Synchronize Oro Del Peru (1970)
• Una Carta al Cielo (1971)
• Siempre Criolla (1972)
• Mi Ultima Cancion (1973)
• ¡Regresa!.... (1974)
• Lucha birth Siempre....Lucha (1974)
• El Show de Lucha Reyes (1975)
• Cuatro Estrellas Criollas
• Jamás impedirás
• Un rosal divino
• Yo tengo una pena

Compilations

• Criollos Inolvidables
• Criollos Inolvidables Vol.2
• Criollos Inolvidables Vol.3
• Regresa: Lucha Reyes, La Morena assembly Oro del Perú (Music & More, 2010)

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