Ester Soré

Ester Soré (born May 27, 1915 in Santiago de Chile ; † September 6, 1996 there ; real name Marta Yupanqui Donoso ) was a Chilean singer.

Life

The daughter of Peruvian immigrants took on radio test recordings at the age of fourteen with the pianist and composer Donato Román Heitman , who gave her the name of First Soré. She began a career as a radio singer and was voted Miss Radio by Ercilla magazine in 1938 . In the same year she appeared with the humorists Pepe Arias and Pepe Iglesias and the musician Rodolfo Biagi at Radio Belgrano in Buenos Aires and in the following year worked alongside Nicanor Molinare , Romilio Romo and Los Cuatro Huasos in the Chilean film Dos corazones y una tonada by Carlos García Huidobro , for whom Donato Román had composed the music. In the same year she sang the campaign anthem for the candidate of the Frente Popular and future Chilean President Pedro Aguirre Cerda .

Alongside Rosita Serrano , Gladys Briones , Margarita Alarcón , Meche Videla and Derlinda Araya , Ester Soré became one of the most remarkable singers of her time in Chile. Her first record with the songs Como el agüita fresca and Llanto del cielo was released in 1939 by RCA Victor . In total, more than five hundred of these 78 records appeared, including a. with compositions by Nicanor Molinare ( Morenito de mi alma ) and Donato Román ( Chiquilla and La yegüita ), Bernardo Lacasia ( Nostalgia de amor and Pajarillo, pajarillo ), Fernando Lecaros ( Lai larai and A motu yanei ), Román and García Huidobro ( Canción del puerto and Mi corazón amante ), Luis Martínez Serrano ( Qué bonito es ser soldado ), José Goles ( Jugando al patín ), and Pablo Garrido ( Para qué llorar ).

Qué me van a hablar de amores is the only song that Ester Soré wrote himself. Incidentally, musicians such as Fernando Morelo , Luis Bahamonde , Luis Aguirre Pinto and Fernando Lecaros composed for her, her most important lyricists were José Goles and Clara Solovera . She appeared with various musical formations such as Los Yumbelinos (1938), El Dúo Leal Del Campo (1962-1969) Los Baqueanos , an important partner was the guitarist Humberto Campos .

In addition, Ester Soré worked on twelve Chilean feature films in the 1940s. She got to know celebrities like Tito Schipa , Jorge Negrete , Chela Bon , Juan Arvizu , Libertad Lamarque , José Mojica and Lucho Gatica , performed on Radio Minería with the Mexican Los Panchos and went on concert tours through Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay (1951), Peru , Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela (1954).

In 1960 she was injured in a car accident and in 1962 suffered facial paralysis from an infection. Nevertheless, she remained active as a singer and performed with the Dúo Leal Del Campo . In 1965 they married Pedro Leal . RCA Victor and Polydor produced LPs such as Huasita regalona and Somos de la calle larga . In 1974 Ester Soré founded a folklore academy with Leal. Until 1977 she performed as a duo with Leal.

Web links

• Ester Soré (MusicaPopular.cl)
• Ester Sore in the Internet Movie Database (English)