Gloria Lasso

Gloria Lasso (actually Rosa María Coscolin, born November 1, 1922 in Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona, † December 4, 2005 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a Spanish and French singer of romantic ballads.

Her voice was clear and powerful, but also lyrical. Because of their trill technique called them un Rossignol Madrilène ( a nightingale from Madrid, but this does not fit their Catalan origin). Jean Cocteau gave her the title l' aigle de la chanson ( eagle of the songs ).

The zenith of her career in Europe was 1955-1962, during which time she held many tours and occupied with their songs regularly top places in the French charts. Their nearly 400 LPs were, inter alia, published in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the USA, Mexico, many South American countries, but also in Japan. The singer Dalida was their strongest competitor.

Among the most famous songs by Gloria Lasso include Etranger au paradis ( Stranger In Paradise Tony Bennett ) - the first album in France, which was sold over one million times - and Et maintenant ( by Jean -Luc Lahaye ); Spanish is Luna de miel marked ( by Mikis Theodorakis ), the Greek international hit Les enfants du Pirée ( Never on Sunday from Sunday ... never! Manos Hadjidakis from ). She also sang in the Latin American style, for example, Manhã de Carnaval from Orfeu Negro ( Luiz Bonfá ).

Her song Venus ( by Ed Marshall) was in 1959 five weeks at the top of the French charts. With the album Le Tour de Chant de Gloria Lasso à l' Olympia in 1956 she came for a month on the top spot in the sales figures. In France, she received twelve gold records, platinum in Mexico as well as the rare Diamond Record in the USA.

Early sixties drew Gloria Lasso in the near Cuernavaca in Mexico and received Mexican citizenship. In Central and South America, she celebrated further success. She returned in 1985 for a comeback at the Olympia back to Paris. In Cuernavaca she died on December 4, 2005 of a heart attack a few days after her concert to celebrate its 50 - year anniversary in November 2005, which was her last. Your urn grave is in the local Catedral de la Asunción de María.

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

Since the mid- nineties their great successes will also be published on CD.

Autobiographies and Literature

  • El silencio roto. Editorial Grijalbo, México 1982 (2), ISBN 968-419-196-0.
  • The plaide coupable. Édition 13, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-86804-163-6 ( ISBN formally wrong )
  • Mes et les autres maris. Preface 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.
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