Gloria Trevi
Gloria Trevi promotional picture
Background information
Birth name	Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz
Born	February 15, 1968 (1968-02-15) (age 39)
Origin	Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Genre(s)	Rock Popand Punk rock
Occupation(s)	singer, songwriter, and video producer
Instrument(s)	vocalsand Piano
Years active	1980-present
Label(s)	Univision
Website	www.gloriatreviwebofficial.com

Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz, February 15, 1968 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican singer and songwriter. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... Nickname: Motto: El Trabajo templa el Espíritu Location of Monterrey in northern Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico State Nuevo León Founded 20 September 1596 Government  - Mayor Adalberto Madero ( PAN) Area  - City 572 km²  (220. ... Nuevo León (Spanish for New León, after the former kingdom in Spain) is a state located in northeastern Mexico. ... Mexico or, in Spanish, México, is: Mexico, a federal republic in North America Mexico City, that countrys capital city Mexican Federal District, the federal district containing that capital city Estado de México (State of Mexico), one of that republics 31 constituent states Mexico is also the... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Motto: El Trabajo templa el Espíritu Location of Monterrey in northern Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico State Nuevo León Founded 20 September 1596 Government  - Mayor Adalberto Madero ( PAN) Area  - City 572 km²  (220. ... Nuevo León (Spanish for New León, after the former kingdom in Spain) is a state located in northeastern Mexico. ...

Biography

Childhood

According to "Girl Trouble," the biography of Gloria Trevi by New York Times writer Christopher McDougall, Gloria was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, to Manuel Treviño and Gloria Ruíz. Her dreams of being an entertainer started early: Trevi began to learn and recite poetry at age five. She later took piano and ballet lessons. Trevi's parents divorced when she was 10. There have been allegations that her mother mistreated her and tried to discourage her from being a singer. The veracity of those rumors, however, is not clear -- and is undermined somewhat by the fact that Trevi's mother has publicly pleaded for her daughter to change her wild ways. The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, a making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... Painting of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas, 1872. ...

Thirst for stardom

Gloria left her home city at the age of 12, arriving at Mexico City, where she met her future manager Sergio Andrade. Before meeting Andrade, she worked singing and dancing on the streets for spare change, as well as teaching aerobics and serving tacos at a taco stand. In 1985, she was a member of a short-lived girl group named Boquitas Pintadas (Little Mouths with Lipstick). Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... barbacoa tacos. ...

With Andrade's help, Trevi released her first album in 1989, ¿Qué Hago Aquí? (What Am I Doing Here?). The album scored an instant number one hit for her, "Dr. Psiquiatra" ("Dr. Psychiatrist"), and four other songs from that album climbed the charts as well. She soon became known as a challenger to the machismo ideas of many of Mexico's men, breaking social standards and taking a feminist stand point on many of her songs, while exploring sexuality in a way that not many female Mexican entertainers had done before her. She would go out of her way to taunt social conservatives, engaging in antics like stripping male members of her audience and so on. Despite the way she carried herself on stage, she was also able to become very popular among Mexican and Latin American children. At that point of her career, it became common for many little girls and teenaged females to dress like Gloria's concert attire. ¿Qué hago aquí?, album cover ¿Qué hago aquí? is the first album by Mexican singer Gloria Trevi. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The culture of Mexico reflects the complexity of jessicas love of chips and salsa. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Trevi, however, also showed herself to the public as a girl who could break down and cry at any minute and about anything. Many times during television interviews, she would end up crying when hosts and interviewers mentioned her childhood.

Mexican Pop singer

Trevi followed up her first record with the 1991 album Tu Angel De La Guardia (Your Guardian Angel), which became even more successful than the first one. Her song "Pelo Suelto" ("Loose Hair") became her most widely known hit, reaching number one all over Latin America as well as becoming popular with the Latino population in the United States. // The term Latino is a linguistic identity that refers to an individual that has significant ancestry from a nation-state where a Latin derived language is spoken or is the offical language of the government. ...

Although some of her lyrics bore heavy sexual references: direct or indirect, she also aimed at exposing hypocrites, addressing the upper class, hunger, prostitution, religion, war deaths, issues few wanted to confront in Mexico at that time, which made her quite a few enemies, including many in the Mexican government.

• In "A Gatas", an attack on the rich, or rather those who suck up to the rich, in the song she says she would "prefer to walk like a cat on all fours than be like the upper class", and knocks those trying to keep in fashion by saying she'd rather be white trash than stuck up (Prefiero ser naca que ser una tarada). She goes on to trash those who suck up to people with fancy last names (the rich) commenting they are involved in drug trafficking.
• She also takes aim at the rich in "Qué Bueno Que no fui Lady Di" ("Thank goodness I'm not Princess Diana") by saying that she would rather be a "regular person" than to be Royalty as she feels she would not be a good example. She also states that she has her own opinions and she would never let anybody tell her what to say or feel. She felt that being part of the Royal Family she would have to act and say things a certain way and she is not willing to compromise who she is to fit in with the Royal Family.
• She plays a mock court trial for those who were truly in love, but who were indecent in "El Juicio" ("The Trial"), as if love were a crime.
• Many of her songs have references to raggedy clothes or shoes as in "Zapatos Viejos" ("Old Shoes"). In other songs, she talks of children screaming in shops that they are penniless, or screaming out the window how lonely she is, or that her blood boils every time she meets a man that was chosen for her against her will, or entering the church, getting on her knees and (again, screaming) refusing to repent for her sins, or screaming to the psychiatrist ("Dr. Psiquiatra") that she is not insane but quite desperate to live her own life.

Regarding technique, she utilizes background chorus and crazy antics complete with sounds. In "Dr. Psiquiatra" she starts the song with bottles of glass breaking. In one of her songs she bangs on a piano as if she was crazy. In another song, she makes a crunchy sound of "cutting her hair". In most of her songs, she shouts incessantly... except in "Hoy no voy a Gritar" ("Today I'm not going to scream") where she becomes silent for the young children who have died who were forced into being soldiers for war, among other things. Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances;[2] née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. ... The military use of children refers to children being placed in harms way in military actions, the desire being to protect a location or provide propaganda. ...

Trevi then filmed a movie, also named Pelo Suelto. In it, she participated with fellow actor Humberto Zurita. The movie became a number one hit, and Gloria was invited to tour in many countries. In 1992, she began a tour all over the Caribbean and South America, which took her to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile. She also released her first calendar, which was considered by many of her fans and critics to be very suggestive and sexually oriented. Meanwhile, she kept talking in public about such things as teen sex, abortion, drugs, AIDS, prostitution, panhandling and anything that came into her mind. Humberto Zurita being interviewed on Telemundo (2005) Humberto Zurita (born on September 2, 1954 in Torreón, Coahuila) is a Mexican actor, director and producer of telenovelas. ... “West Indian” redirects here. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... Whore redirects here. ... Beggars in Samarkand, 1905 Begging includes the various methods used by persons to obtain money, food, shelter, or other necessities from people they encounter during the course of their travels. ...

Her third album, Me Siento Tan Sola (I Feel so Lonely), was released in 1993, and it garnered her another hit, "Zapatos Viejos" ("Old Shoes"). The album was taped in Los Angeles. Gloria released a new calendar, which was even more suggestive than the first one. Then, her second movie, also named like her song, Zapatos Viejos, was released, acting alongside boxing champion Jorge "el Maromero" Paez. d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

Trevi became more reclusive after that. For years, all that was heard about her were rumors and speculation. But then, in 1998, Sergio Andrade's former wife published a book about how Andrade allegedly would pick up teenaged girls and lure them into a web of sex and slavery by promising to make them superstars. According to the book, named De La Gloria Al Infierno (From Glory to Hell), Trevi was also a willing participant of Andrade's scams, and she had fallen in love with her manager, supposedly participating in his manager's sexual orgies and slavery acts with the teenaged girls just to please him. Sexual slavery is a special case of slavery which includes various different practices: forced prostitution (which can include religious prostitution) single-owner sexual slavery slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common or permissible In general, the nature of slavery means that the slave is de facto available...

Scandal starts

Around 1999, many of the girls who were allegedly abused escaped from Andrade and exposed on television stories of horror and violence. Andrade and Trevi flew out of Mexico without being captured. She was belived to be hideing out in McAllen, Texas, stopping in Spain and Chile before they were declared, along with a third accomplice named Mary Boquitas, as fugitives of the Mexican judicial system. Soon after, Karina Yapor, a girl from Chihuahua, Mexico, gave birth to a baby boy she alleged to be Andrade's son. By this time, Trevi, Boquitas and Andrade were the talk of every Spanish tabloid television show in the United States, and most of Latin America. Trevi, Andrade and the rest of their 'troop' soon escaped to Argentina, where the remaining girls escaped and were soon flown to Mexico. But before Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were caught, they escaped to Brazil, where they were able to live for several months, until they were finally caught by Brazilian police and arrested. In Brazil, Trevi allegedly enjoyed walking around the neighborhood where she resided, eating at a local bakery every day. When they were caught, the news quickly spread to Spanish-speaking people everywhere. Maria Raquenel Portillo (born 5th January 1970) is an infamous Mexican woman, who is much better known for her nickname of Mary Boquitas. ... Tabloid talk shows are a genre of American television talk-shows that were extremely popular during the late 20th century, ran mostly during the day, and were distributed mostly through syndication. ...

A legal battle ensued because Brazilian prosecutors wanted them charged there, but Mexican prosecutors claimed that the three prisoners belonged to them because they had begun their practices while still in Mexico. Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were flown from their original jail to another facility because of overcrowding. Soon after, a tape where Trevi can be heard singing songs (allegedly to Andrade) on the plane ride became public. In the song, which didn't seem to be a written song but one she was making up, she talks of how she'd "done everything for the love of" a man.

In the new jail facility, Trevi became pregnant. She initially accused a jail guard of raping her, supposedly causing the pregnancy. She was released under a Brazilian law that allows women who give birth while prisoners to live in a house with their children, but her new freedom was brief, because once again, Mexican authorities began to ask for her, so she had to be taken back to jail.

Brazil's authorities came to an agreement with Mexican authorities and, on December 21, 2002 they extradited Trevi, and Boquitas to Mexico so they could face charges there. Her baby ended up living with his grandmother, Trevi's mother. Andrade was sent back to Mexico afterwards. December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

There were allegations also that, while fugitive, Trevi gave birth to a baby girl of Andrade, and that they left the baby to die. However, no body or evidence was found, so they were not charged with homicide. (Trevi would later admit in a comic strip that she does not know of the whereabouts of this daughter.)

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On February 24, 2004, Trevi was expecting to be set free by Mexico's justice system, but was denied freedom at the time. After she learned that she would not be allowed to go free, she began a hunger strike. February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"Girl Trouble," a book by New York Times Magazine writer Christopher McDougall, is the most authoritative account of Gloria's life and the secrets she hid from the public eye. McDougall was able to interview Gloria and her manager while they were both behind bars in Brazil, and also tracked down many of the girls who were members of the cult to get their detailed accounts of what happened while the band was on the run.

Trevi is released

On September 21, 2004, Trevi was acquitted and set free by a Mexican court, citing a lack of evidence in the case. She had spent 4 years, 8 months, 8 days incarcerated in Brazil and Mexico. September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Upon her release from prison, Trevi quickly hit the studio, recording her latest album, Cómo Nace el Universo (How the Universe is Born), which scored decent success in the United States, being certified gold and being nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the 2005 Billboard Music Awards. She subsequently embarked upon a nation-wide sold-out tour titled "Trevolucion". The tour played arenas like El Palacio de Los Deportes in Mexico in front of 14,000+ fans as well as Arena Monterrey with 12,000+ fans in attendance. The tour was briefly post-poned due to an unexpected pregnancy. The tour was resumed in Phoenix, Arizona. Currently the Mexican Superstar is promoting her current album titled "La Trayectoria" which includes 14 of her greatest hits Live as well as four new unedited songs including "Todos Me Miran" which has topped the Latin charts word-wide. The album also includes a Live DVD with the concerts used to record the songs. "La Trayectoria" has been certified gold in Mexico for her 50,000+ plus copies sold. The album has sold over 250,000 copies worlwide. Although she is still an energetic performer and has not made a full reversion to what some people considered raunchy and wild concert antics with which she shocked Mexico in the '90s, Trevi has shown to be more passive and reflective at this time of her career. The description Gold Album is applied to recorded music albums that have sold a minimum number of copies (in the US, currently 500,000 sales). ... Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ...

Trevi is currently on a steady relationship with her boyfriend and father of her latest son, Miguel Armando.

Studio Albums

• ¿Qué hago aquí? (1989)
• Tu ángel de la guarda (1990) #4 US Latin Albums
• Me siento tan sola (1992)
• Más turbada que nunca(1994)
• Si me llevas contigo(1995)
• Cómo nace el universo (2004) #2 US Latin Albums
• La Rosa Blue (2007) (Release date: 09/18/2007)

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Singles

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Films

• Pelo suelto
• Zapatos viejos
• La papa sin catsup

Pelo Suelto is the signature song of Gloria Trevi. ... Zapatos Viejos is the first single from Gloria Trevis third album Me siento tan sola. ... Papa sin Catsup is the first single from Gloria Trevis fourth album Más turbada que nunca. ...

External Links

GIrl Trouble, the Gloria Trevi story ISBN 0060536624

• Web OFICIAL

• Gloria Trevi section on Univision.com
• Gloria Trevi Non-official homepage
• Gloria Trevi Interview

Gloria trevi official page for suenos atrevidos www.galeon.com/latrevi/

• Official Gloria Trevi Site

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