La Tigresa del Oriente

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Juana Judith Bustos, 2011

Juana Judith Bustos Ahuite (born November 22, 1945 in Constancia , Departamento de Loreto ), known as La Tigresa del Oriente ( Eng . " The Tigress of the Orient "), is a Peruvian singer , actress , model , beautician and hairdresser .

Her breakthrough came with the video for her song Nuevo amanecer (New Dawn) , which exceeded the 10 million mark on YouTube in 2009 and which became an Internet meme , especially in Latin America . She is known for her leopard outfit.

Life

Childhood and youth

Bustos was born in the village of Constancia in the Loreto region of Peru. She is the fifth daughter of sixteen siblings. Her father came from Manaus and her mother from Loreto. Bustos grew up in poor conditions and began working as a beautician at a young age. She emigrated to Lima , where she worked as a make-up artist for a television station for more than twenty years.

1999-2006

Her musical career began in 1999. She developed a concept for a character called "La Tigresa". With the help of Mario Poggi, she began to write songs. Then she founded the group "Las Tigresas" with Elizabeth Alegría and Aracely. Due to various difficulties, the group had to break up.

In 2002 she decided to work as a soloist until she rose to fame in 2006 with her video clip Nuevo Amanecer ( New Dawn ). Other singles such as Anaconda and Trabaja flojo trabaja ( Work lazy, work ) followed, which also had great success on YouTube. In particular, the rather cheap-looking video clips and the somewhat trashy performance of the dancers made the appeal of the videos and went viral , especially in Latin America .

2007-2010

The high number of visitors made the press aware of their YouTube videos. She did her first interview with a Venezuelan weekly newspaper. In late 2007 she signed Warner Music Mexico . Her songs were revised and the debut album Duelo de Gigantes was released. BBC Mundo published an interview about her on December 28, 2009.

In 2009, Radio Cumbia Peru, the original uploaders of the videos on YouTube, tried to charge $ 2,000 for each video on their channel. She felt this was blackmail and uploaded the songs on her own page. In 2010 the album De La Selva su Cumbia was released in Argentina.

2010 a collaboration with appeared Wendy Sulca and Delfin Quishpe , a pro- Zionist song for Israel , which also again became a viral phenomenon.

2011 until now

La Tigresa del Oriente and Warner Musik separated after the first album. She then signed with the independent label Kántaro Récords . On this label she released the album Fiesta Felina .

In 2015 the last album to date, Mi Lindo Perú, was released as a self- release .

In 2020, during the global corona pandemic, she released a quarantine version of her first single Nuevo Amanecer .

Discography

Albums

  • 2007: Duelo de Gigantes (Warner Music México)
  • 2010: De La Selva, su Cumbia (Edición Especial Argentina) ( compilation , Silbando Discos)
  • 2011: Fiesta Felina (Kántaro Récords)
  • 2015: Mi Lindo Perú (in-house production)

Singles

  • 2007: Nuevo Amanecer
  • 2009: La Ñañita Loca
  • 2009: El Reggaetón Del Suri ( feat.El Pimpo Man & Ricky Del Castillo )
  • 2009: El Baile De La Tigresas
  • 2009: Felina
  • 2011: Wed Lindo Perú
  • 2011: Adolescents
  • 2011: La Tigresita
  • 2015: Barata y techera

Guest appearances

year song With
2009 El Swing de la Gata El Pimpo Man
2010 En tus tierras bailaré Delfín Quishpe and Wendy Sulca.
2010 No hay que discriminar Coco
2010 En tus tierras bailaré Delfín Quishpe and Wendy Sulca.
2010 Ella me provoca Midas
2011 Pa 'tras Dante Spinetta
2013 A New Brighter Day Los Terapeutas del Ritmo

Web links

Commons : La Tigresa del Oriente  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La otra Tigresa del Oriente: la felina que no colgó see video on Youtube. In: Camaleón con zapatillas. September 25, 2009, archived from the original on July 12, 2011 ; accessed on May 25, 2020 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ La Tigresa del Oriente, de hija de la selva a reina de Youtube. El Pais , January 14, 2016, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ De la selva peruana a YouTube on bbc.co.uk, December 28, 2009 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Redacción El Comercio Perú: 'Tigresa del Oriente': 'Me exigen US $ 2 mil para no sacar mi video de Youtube'. September 1, 2009, accessed May 25, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Irin Carmon: Viral Zionism: How an Israel-promoting web-video phenomenon bloomed in Latin America. July 2, 2010, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Federico Croce: ¡Ya es un hit! La Tigresa del Oriente canta contra el coronavirus. mdzol.com, April 23, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME La Tigresa del Oriente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahuite, Juana Judith Bustos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian singer, actress, beautician and hairdresser
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancia , Departamento de Loreto , Perú