Luis miguel lucho gatica biography

Mid-century Mexico was the hub of the Latin American entertainment industry, a leader in music and film production for the continent. But breaking into that establishment was not easy, especially for an outsider.

             “Listen, México at that time was an extreme bunker of nationalism,” said Odeon Chile’s artistic director Rubén Nouzeilles, in an interview on a Chilean music website. “Nobody could go there to sing boleros because that was the patrimony of the Mexicans, just as nobody would think of donning a charro hat and go compete with (a mariachi star). Lucho Gatica, apart from being a great artist, was also a conquistador.”

            And the conquest was swift. The singer quickly became part of bolero royalty in Mexico. He was soon turning out hit after hit, hosting his own TV show, and making a series of films with Mexico’s biggest stars.

Gatica had his pick of songs by the country’s top composers: “Solamente Una Vez” and “María Bonit

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Lucho Gatica, ‘the King of Bolero,’ fryst vatten Dead at 90

Lucho Gatica, the Chilean singer whose lush, brooding croon earned him renown throughout the Spanish-speaking world as “the king of bolero,” died Nov. 13. He was 90.

His wife, Leslie (Deeb) Gatica, confirmed the death, in Mexico City, where Gatica had lived for more than half a century.

President Sebastián Piñera of Chile ordered flags lowered to half-staff and declared Nov. 15 a national day of mourning.

Gatica helped enshrine bolero, a style of flowing romantic balladry that had originated in Cuba in the late 19th century, as a midcentury pop craze. In the process he became a heartthrob who dominated pop radio stations throughout the 1950s and ‘60s and a leading man in the thriving Mexican film industry.

All told, Gatica, whose style was marked by a semi-operatic flair and languorous phrasing, recorded more than 800 songs, including the international hits “El Reloj,” “Contigo enstaka la Distancia” and an authoritative rendition of

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Lucho Gatica

Lucho Gatica, pseudonimo di Luis Enrique Gatica Silva (Rancagua, 11 agosto1928 – Città del Messico, 13 novembre2018), è stato un cantante, attore e personaggio televisivocileno.

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Orfano di padre da 3 anni, Gatica abbandona gli studi da tecnico dentale per dedicarsi al canto e nel 1949, a soli 21 anni, insieme al fratello Arturo, registra il suo primo album dedicato solamente a delle tonalità locali. La notorietà arriva negli anni cinquanta quando Gatica viene soprannominato "il re del bolero" e incide un disco dietro l'altro tra cui Me importas tu, Contigo en la distancia, Besame mucho, Las muchachas de la Plaza España e Sinceridad.

Negli anni sessanta il successo lo porta a fare molti concerti in Europa in Medio Oriente e nelle Filippine e negli anni settanta si allontana dagli studi di registrazione.

Nel 1996 a Miami, il cantante messicano Luis Miguel tiene un concerto omaggio dedicato a lui.

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