Eva Garza

Eva Garza ( Eva Gonda Rivera ; born May 11, 1917 in Villa Frontera , † November 1, 1966 in Tucson / Arizona ) was a Mexican singer.

Garza grew up in San Antonio and began singing at the age of seven. She sang on a Texas radio station in the early 1930s and won runner-up in a competition at the Texas Theater in 1933 . In 1935 she appeared in an hour of Spanish music on KABC, and the following year she made her first recordings on the Bluebird Records label .

In 1937 she toured the United States with Sally Rand for six months. In 1938 she founded Eva Garza and Her Troupe . She toured with the group through South and Central America until 1942 and became internationally known. On the tour she met the singer Felipe Bojalil Gil , whom she married in 1939. The couple settled in New York down, took at Columbia Records and stepped on the show Viva América of CBS on.

In 1949 Garza went to Mexico City, where she got contracts with the broadcaster XEW and the Churubusco Studios for several weekly performances. During this time she got to know musicians such as Agustín Lara , Javier Solís and Lola Beltrán and performed with Pedro Infante , Pedro Vargas , Jorge Negrete , Ernesto Alonzo and Joaquín Pardavé .

In the 1950s, Garza had roles in several feature films, including Mujeres sin mañana (1951), Amor vendido (1951), Paco el Elegante (1952) and Bolero inmortal (1958). In 1965 she recorded the album Vuelve Eva Garza Mexican Encore with Columbia Records , after which she performed on a tour in Arizona, New Mexico and Los Angeles. She died of pneumonia in 1966.

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SURNAME	Garza, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gonda Rivera, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	mexican singer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villa Frontera
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1966
Place of death	Tucson