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La Lupe, a singer who was known during the late 1960’s as the Queen of Latin Soul, died on Feb. 28 at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. She was 53 years old. She died of cardiac arrest, a hospital spokesman said.
Was La Lupe black?
La Lupe was Afro-Cubana
Born in Santiago de Cuba, her family moved to Havana. This is where her career started, and where she first became a star. She was part of the group Los Tropicuba, with her then-husband and another female singer, and later performed on her own at the Havana nightclub La Red.
Who was Lola Calvo in real life?
The fictional character of “Lola Calvo” is loosely based off of real life singer, La Lupe. In the second episode, when Pedro and the other guy was making a bet to see if he can score a girl, the guy gave him a five dollar American bill. It was actually supposed to be five dollar in Cuban pesos.
Was La Lupe Cuban?
Born in either 1936 or 1939 in southern Cuba, La Lupe won a singing contest and soon was performing with popular regional bands. She made two LPs under her own name in 1960 and 1961.
Why was La Lupe Exiled?
However, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, La Lupe felt that she could no longer live in a country that did not accept her singing style, which was officially classified as anti-revolutionary. She left Cuba for Mexico in 1962, where she sought to relaunch her career, but was never accepted.
Where did La Lupe live in the Bronx?
In the late 1980’s, La Lupe, who lived in public housing and later in an apartment on East 140th Street in the Bronx, left the Santería religion to join an evangelical church. She later became an ordained Pentecostal minister and preacher in the South Bronx.
Who is the most famous Cuban singer?
Gloria Estefan Born in Havana, Estefan is arguably Cuba’s most famous singer. The seven-time Grammy Award winner.