Yolanda Montes

Yolanda Montes ( Yolanda Yvonne Montes Farrington ; born January 3, 1932 in Spokane ) is an American dancer, actress and singer, who became known under the stage name Tongolele .

Montes, who has Spanish, Swedish, French, English and Tahitian ancestry, was a member of the San Francisco International Ballet as a child and performed in theater and cabaret as a member of a Tahitian revue. At the age of fifteen she came to Mexico, where she became famous in shows as an exotic dancer. The journalist Carlos Estrada Lang called it "La Reina de las Danzas Tahitianas".

In addition, she appeared as a singer with musicians such as Meche Barba , Ninón Sevilla and María Antonieta Pons and made - also in 1947 - her first film Nocturno de amor with Miroslava Stern , Victor Junco and Hilda Sour . Her career in Mexican film lasted until the 1980s with productions such as Han matado a Tongolele , El rey del barrio , Mátenme porque me muero , Chucho el remendado , Sí, mi vida , El mensaje de la muerte , Había una vez un marido and El misterio del carro exprés . In the 1950s she married the Cuban Joaquín González ( El Mago de Tambor ) in New York , with whom she had two sons.

In the mid-1960s, she released the album Tongolele canta para usted with songs like Insaciable , No llores , Sensación and Me quiero perder contigo . From 1984 she worked on the telenovela La pasión de Isabela with 220 episodes on the side of Ana Martin , Hector Bonilla , Silvia Derbez , Lilia Obregón and Manolo Fábregas . She played herself in Sergio Jiménez 'telenovela Salomé in 2001 (with Edith González , Niurka Marcos , Guy Écker , Sebastián Ligarde , María Rubio , Patricia Reyes Spíndola , Leticia Perdigón and Aarón Hernán ).

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SURNAME	Montes, Yolanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Montes Farrington, Yolanda Yvonne; Tongolele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American dancer, singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Spokane