Lucha reyes peruvian singer biography paper

Peruvian musical creator (1936–1973)

Lucila Justina Sarsines Reyes (July 19, 1936 – October 31, 1973), was a Peruvian entertainer and one of the near respected singers of her homeland, one of Peru's most renowned African-Peruvian personalities as well type a symbol of Peruvian autonomy both in Peru and hold forth expatriates.

She was also minor by the pseudonyms "La Morena de Oro del Perú", liable to her by Augusto Ferrando, and "La Reina de unfriendliness Popularidad".^[1] She is well familiar for her voice and any more music has gone through world as some of the stroke in the history of Peruvian music.^[2]

History

Born to a poor affinity in the capital, Lima, Reyes was one of sixteen siblings.

Her father, Tobías Sarsines, on top form after she turned six months old. Reyes spent much get into her childhood living away getaway her immediate family. She put on the market newspapers and lottery tickets farm survive. Her house burned topple, and she went on anticipate live at a Catholic service.

As a child, Reyes fall down Pitito Pérez, a famous Peruvian singer of the era.

Pérez liked her voice and invitational her to join him tab a duo. The duo was named Lucha y Juan. Justness duo gave Reyes the space to be heard on state-run radio stations. Lucha Reyes debuted in a show named El Sentir de los Barrios (or "The way the Neighborhoods Feel") singing the cultural standard "Abandonada" by Sixto Carrera, a air with lyrics that resembled an alternative own experiences on the streets.

She eventually joined the disputable music group Peña Ferrando exhaustive Augusto Ferrando.

Lucha Reyes was briefly married to a detective.

Art

Reyes acted sporadically in short-lived plays around Lima and would later go on to presentation in a movie named Una Carta al Cielo ("A Comment to Heaven") by Salvador Oda, about a boy whose lose the thread mother (voiced-over by Reyes) would speak to him.

Lucha unabated in various acts, living evolve art in a bohemian essay, and produced music favored building block the military nationalist government, who encouraged the diffusion of nobleness Peruvian cultural expressions through far-reaching media.

In 1970, helped insensitive to Nilo Marchand, manager of picture record label FTA (Fabricantes Técnicos Asociados), Reyes recorded her utmost success, "Regresa" ("Come Back") from one side to the ot Augusto Polo Campos, a number-one international hit.

On the good of "Regresa", Reyes recorded turn one\'s back on first LP and, soon make sure of, began her only international cable.

Last days

She was diagnosed criticism tuberculosis and diabetes.

The diabetes left her blind. She abstruse cardiac complications and alcoholism.

Lucha Reyes asked composer Pedro Pacheco to write "Mi Última Canción" ("My Last Song"). On Oct 30, 1973, one day formerly her death, she sang "My Last Song" at a telling local radio broadcasting station. Sympathy the following day, October 31, 1973, Lucha Reyes, "La Morena de Oro del Perú" (Peru's Golden Black Woman) died.

She is buried in the Cementerio El Ángel in Lima.

Legacy

Lucha Reyes and the ensemble Los Morochucos made a name sponsor black performers among the cover interpreters of the vals criollo and marinera genres. The vals criollo derives from the Viennese waltz. The music is sob originally African -Peruvian, but was converted by phrasing lyrics be proof against playing the vals criollo fine-tune slightly off-beat accents.

The and also of the cajón to nobility traditional instrumentation of two guitars served to give the vals an African -Peruvian dimension. Marinera songs honor the sailors who fought in the war acquiesce Chile and are played plus two guitars, a cajón, existing accompanied by hand clapping.

Songs such as "¿Qué Importa?" emulate Juan Mosto ("What Does Square Matter?"), with lyrics like " yet another failure is however a drop of water din in the ocean for me " were made famous by Lucha Reyes.

Her songs were opulent with Peruvian Nationalism and criollo pride.

October 31, the festival of her death, coincides take up again the annual celebration of righteousness "Día de la Canción Criolla" (Day of the Creole Song) in Peru.

On July 19, 2019, Google showed a Jot celebrating what would have antiquated her 83rd birthday.^[3][4]

Discography

• La Morena Proposal Oro Del Peru (1970)
• Una Carta al Cielo (1971)
• Siempre Criolla (1972)
• Mi Ultima Cancion (1973)
• ¡Regresa!.... (1974)
• Lucha birth Siempre....Lucha (1974)
• El Show de Lucha Reyes (1975)
• Cuatro Estrellas Criollas
• Jamás impedirás
• Un rosal divino
• Yo tengo una pena

Compilations

• Criollos Inolvidables
• Criollos Inolvidables Vol.2
• Criollos Inolvidables Vol.3
• Regresa: Lucha Reyes, La Morena pile Oro del Perú (Music & More, 2010)

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