María Guadalupe Palomera Chávez (12 December 1913 – 16 November 2008),
known as Lupita Palomera, was a Mexican singer, one of the first and most notable
bolero
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performers in the
Golden Age of Mexican cinema
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.
She was known for some time as "La Novia de la Canción" (The Sweetheart of Song) and was also called "La Voz más Dulce de la Radio" (The Radio's Sweetest Voice).
Life and career
María Guadalupe Palomera Chávez was born in 1913 in
La Yesca La Yesca is a municipality and the municipal seat of the same in the Mexican state of Nayarit. The population of the municipality was 12,025 (2005). The population of the town and municipal seat was 356 inhabitants in 2005. The population densit ...
,
Tepic Territory
Tepic Territory was a territory created out of the northwestern territory of the state of Jalisco, which later became present-day Nayarit.http://www.ceaamer.edu.mx/new/der4/dc/modulo5_2.pdf
History
The territory was created by decree of Preside ...
,
which later became the
State of Nayarit. Her father, Luis Palomera, was the municipal treasurer of La Yesca.
Her family later moved to
Guadalajara
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,
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...
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Palomera made her debut singing on Guadalajara's XED radio station.
She made her first recording in 1937, but achieved her first great success with her 1938 recording of
Gonzalo Curiel's "Vereda tropical". She recorded exclusively for
RCA Víctor and sang on programs for
XEW. She also recorded several Mexican folk songs with her husband, singer
Fernando Fernández, the father of her three daughters.
Palomera died in November 2008
at the age of 94.
Discography
Studio albums
* ''Canta Lupita Palomera'' (RCA Victor)
* ''La inspiración de Agustín Lara en la voz de Lupita Palomera'' (RCA Victor)
* ''La inspiración de los Hnos. Domínguez en la voz de Lupita Palomera'' (RCA Victor)
* ''Vereda tropical'' (Continental)
Compilation albums
* ''Tú, sólo tú y otros éxitos''
* ''Lo mejor de lo mejor: Lupita Palomera'' (2000)
* ''Recordando'' (2014)
Filmography
* ''Hombres de mar'' (1938)
* ''Padre mercader'' (1938)
* ''Sangre en las montañas'' (1938)
* ''El circo trágico'' (1939)
* ''Nuevo amanecer'' (1954)
References
External links
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1913 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Mexican women singers
Actresses from Nayarit
Bolero singers
Women in Latin music