Gloria Lasso

Gloria Lasso (2003)

Gloria Lasso (actually Rosa Coscolin Figueras , born October 25, 1922 in Vilafranca del Penedès , Barcelona , † December 4, 2005 in Cuernavaca , Mexico ) was a Spanish - French singer of romantic ballads.

Life

Her voice was bright and powerful, but also lyrical. Because of her trilling technique she was called un Rossignol Madrilène ( a nightingale from Madrid , which does not match her Catalan origins). Jean Cocteau gave her the title l'aigle de la chanson ( Eagle of the Chanson ).

The zenith of her career in Europe was between 1955 and 1962, during which time she held many tours and her songs were regularly at the top of the French charts. Her almost 400 long-playing records were u. a. published in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the USA, Mexico, many South American countries, but also in Japan. The singer Dalida was her strongest competitor.

Gloria Lasso's best-known songs include Étranger au paradis ( Stranger In Paradise by Tony Bennett ) - the first album in France that sold over a million copies - and Et maintenant (by Gilbert Bécaud ); Luna de miel (from Mikis Theodorakis ) is Spanish, while the Greek hit Les enfants du Pirée ( Never on Sunday from Sunday… nie! from Manos Hadjidakis ). She also sang in the Latin American style, e.g. B. Manhã de Carnaval from Orfeu Negro (by Luiz Bonfá ).

Her song Vénus (by Ed Marshall) was at the top of the French charts for five weeks in 1959. With the album Le Tour de Chant de Gloria Lasso à l'Olympia , she reached the top spot in sales for one month in 1956. It received twelve gold records in France, platinum in Mexico and the rare diamond record in the USA.

In the early 1960s, Gloria Lasso moved to the vicinity of Cuernavaca, Mexico, and received Mexican citizenship. In Central and South America she celebrated further successes. She returned to Paris in 1985 for a comeback at the Olympia . In Cuernavaca she died of a heart attack on December 4, 2005, a few days after her concert to celebrate her 50th stage anniversary in November 2005, which was her last. Her urn grave is in the local Catedral de la Asunción de María .

From her six marriages she had three daughters, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Since the mid-1990s, her great successes have also been published on CD.

literature

• El silencio roto. Editorial Grijalbo, México 1982 (2), ISBN 968-419-196-0 .
• The plaid coupable. Edition 13, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-86804-163-6
• Mes maris et les autres. Foreword by Frédéric Mitterrand . Edition ° 1, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-86391-222-4 .
• Graciela Barabino: Yo, Gloria Lasso. EDAMEX, Mexico City 2009, ISBN 978-970-9958-83-6 .

Web links

• official website very long loading time!
• Overview of the records and CDs in French
• Gloria Lasso in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The tracks are sorted by year. Search: Les Chansons - Détails par Artiste
• Pictures and biographical details in French
• Obituary in The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 21, 2005. Retrieved June 4, 2010
• Gloria Lasso, una española que triunfó en la canción romántica. Obituary dated December 5, 2005, accessed June 4, 2010
• Gloria Lasso, cantante española que triunfó en Francia e Iberoamérica. Obituary of the newspaper El mundo of December 6, 2005, accessed on June 4, 2010
• Para Gloria Lasso estar en el escenario es desnudar el alma of December 9, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stars of the 50s: Gloria Lasso
2. ↑ Based on a melody by Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin .
3. ↑ Eleven weeks according to another count, cf. infodisc.fr ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Stars of the 50s: Gloria Lasso , but not yet according to today's criteria, which require 10 million records to be sold.
5. ↑ Las cenizas de Gloria Lasso fueron depositadas en la catedral de Cuernavaca ( Memento of the original of April 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Obituary in The San Diego Union-Tribune ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.