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Lucha Reyes (July 19, 1936-October 31, 1973), was a Peruvian performer and one the most respected singers of her country, one of Peru's most famous Black personalities as well as a symbol of Peruvian Nationalism both in Peru and to expatriates. July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ...
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October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ...
1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
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History Born to a poor family in the Capital, Lima, Reyes was one of sixteen siblings. Her family lost their father, who died after she turned six months old. Reyes spent much of her childhood living far from her family, and at a home with other members of her family. She would sell newspapers and lottery tickets to survive. The house she was living in was eventually burned, and she went on to live at a Catholic church. Lima is the capital and largest city in Peru. ...
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As a child, Reyes would put on singing shows in front of families and friends, and it was at one of these shows that she met Pitito Perez, a famous Peruvian singer of the era. Perez liked her voice and invited her to join him in a duo. The duo was named "Lucha y Juan". The duo would give Reyes the opportunity to be heard on national radio stations. Lucha Reyes debuted on radio in a show named "El Sentir de los Barrios" (or "The way the Barrio/People Feel") singing the cultural standard "Abandonada", a song with lyrics that many think resembled her own experiences on the streets. Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice. ...
Lucha Reyes lived a life much like the tragic and heart worn songs she sang. She married a policeman briefly and always refused to declare the reason her marriage lasted for such a short period of time. Later on, she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and Diabetes. Later in life, she joined the controversial music group Peña Ferrando, controversial because of the humiliating way in which the band leader treated the group's public. Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...
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Art Reyes acted sporadically in theater plays around Lima and would later go on to act in a movie named "Una Carta al Cielo" ("A Letter to Heaven"), about a boy whose dead mother (voiced-over by Reyes) would speak to him. It convinced Reyes she had a future in acting as well. Lucha performed in various acts, living on art in a Bohemian style, and produced music favored by the military nationalist government, who encouraged the diffusion of the Peruvian cultural expressions through mass media. For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...
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In 1970, helped by Nile Marchand, manager of the record label FTA (Fabricantes Te'cnicos Asociados), Reyes recorded her greatest success, "Regresa" ("Come Back"), a number one hit internationally. On the success of "Regresa" Reyes recorded her first LP and, soon after, began her only international tour. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Last days The diabetes worsened and finished leaving her blinds. Accentuating her cardiac complications were an uninterrupted routine of work and a raging alcoholism that came from her Bohemian surroundings. There are some who even say that, in the last years of her life, Lucha Reyes fell in to a self-destruction vortex that only could have a sad end. Reyes may have known death was imminent. Polish propaganda poster saying: Stop drinking! Come with us and build happy tomorrows. ...
Followed by a public who idolized her in life, and wanting to close its existence with a finishing touch, Lucha Reyes asked composer Pedro Pacheco to write "Mi Ultima Cancion" ("My Last Song") one of her more touching and collected recordings, and on October 30, 1973, one day before her death, she sang "My Last Song" live in a well-known local radio broadcasting station with sincere tears in her eyes. On the following day, the October 31, 1973, Lucha Reyes, “La Morena de Oro del Perú” (the Gold Colored One of Peru) passed away. October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ...
1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ...
1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Legacy Lucha Reyes and the ensemble Los Morochucos placed black performers among the leading interpreters of the vals criollo and marinera genres. Although it is not by origin an Afro-Peruvian music, by expertly phrasing lyrics and playing the vals criollo with slightly off-beat accents, as if pulling back and pushing on the regular meter. Marineras are songs done in honor of the sailors who had fought in the war with Chile and is played with two guitars and cajón, accompanied by hand clapping.
The vals criollo derives, from the Viennese waltz, but feels quite different and has a lush, romantic character, from the Viennese waltz, as well as themes of love. The vals criollo has a drier, more restrained, sound, and keeps a certain distance from its subject. The addition of the cajón to the traditional instrumentation of two guitars served also to give the vals an Afro-Peruvian dimension.
Songs such as "Un fracaso más, que importa" (What Does One More Failure Matter)¸ with lyrics like "yet another failure is but a drop of water in the ocean for me" were made famous by Lucha Reyes and made here a National icon, as well as her songs, rich with Peruvian Nationalism and ciollo pride. Today, October 30 is the Día de la Canción Criolla (Day of the Creole Song) and is celebrated in Peru every year.
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