Lisa Lopez is a

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singer who had a United States ''Billboard''

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number one single with "

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" (1982) on the Hacienda Record label and produced by Rick Garcia. Lopez's core audience was targeted towards Mexicans, and became the first female Tejano singer to appear on the ''Billboard''

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chart in October 1981. Historically, female musicians were commercially less successful than male performers. Lopez became a successful female Tejano singer before the genre's 1990s

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, and was among the seven female singers who became popular artists; including Chavela Ortiz, Patsy Torres,

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, Elsa García, and

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. Lopez is the niece of Isidro Lopez and was musically similar to

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and Chelo Silva. She signed a recording contract with

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in the early 1990s, though her recordings failed to impact any music chart. Lopez won the first

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, and won in 1982 the

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