Glory (singer)
Glory , also Glou , real name Glorimar Montalvo Castro (born February 14, 1979 in Santurce , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer.
Career
Within the reggaetón genre, she quickly became known as a background singer due to her striking voice. She can be heard on almost all albums produced by the duo Luny Tunes , for example in hits such as Baila morena by Héctor y Tito , Dale Don dale by Don Omar , Gasolina by Daddy Yankee , Donde hubo fuego / Pa'trás, pa'lante by Eddie Dee , Castigo from Ranking Stone , Rákata from Wisin y Yandel or La gata suelta on the famous album Más flow by Luny Tunes y Noriega .
More than any other reggaetón singer, Glory is famous for singing very "dirty" lyrics - and for moaning too. "Dame más gasolina" literally means "give me more gasoline" - but everyone in Latin America knows that the real meaning of "gasolina" in this context is " sperm ".
In her songs she sings about herself as a cheater, crook, highwayman, gangster - see also chapter 3.4 “The woman in the reggaetón texts” in the article on the reggaeton genre . Therefore, more than others, she herself is given these attributes - “gata gangster”, “bandolera”, “gata gárgola”, “gata sandunguera”, “gata traicionera”, “bandida” and “gata suelta”.
Another nickname of Glory is due to her eye shape "La gata de los ojos chinos" - "the cat with the Chinese eyes".
In 2004 she sang her perhaps best-known - because most offensive - song: La popola . "Popola" is a rather older, obscene expression for the female gender that is rarely used among young people today, and she sings: "Ahí no me des más na ', que me duele la popola, ahí, dale por allá, pa' que descanse la popola. "(" Don't give it to me here because the popola hurts me , here, give it to me there so that the popola recovers. ")
At a concert in Santo Domingo , the capital of the Dominican Republic , in 2003 she sang a duet with Don Omar , and they sang a medley of Popola and La batidora ("The Mixer", here also used synonymously with the female sex organ) - and already they had started a very lively (and presumably intentional) discussion about whether the media should be allowed to distribute such obscene texts. Since then, the song subject Popola in many Latin American countries in the censorship . Even so (or maybe because of it) CDs with the song spread quickly.
In 2005, Glory released her first own album Glou / Glory .
Discography
- Albums
- 2005: Glou / Glory
- Singles
- 2004: Popola
- 2005: Perreo 101
- 2005: Traicionera (feat. Don Omar )
Web links
- Official website (in Spanish) , contains audio samples of the album Glou / Glory , videos of the songs Acelera , Gata gárgola , Popola and Suelta como gabete and photos
- Genius Media Group: Glory “La Gata Gangster”
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glory |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glou (stage name); Castro, Glorimar Montalvo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Puerto Rican reggaetón singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santurce (Puerto Rico) , Puerto Rico |