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Lola Beltrán

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Lola Beltrán (born María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz on March 7, 1932 in Rosario, Sinaloa – died March 24, 1996 in Mexico City) was one of the greatest Mexican ranchera singers, nicknamed Lola la Grande ("Lola the Great").^[1]

1 Biography
2 Telenovelas
3 Television shows
4 Films
5 References
6 External links

Biography

In her native town of Rosario, Beltrán completed her secretarial studies while she participated in many singing competitions. She then moved to Mexico City never to go back to Rosario again, where she worked at the radio station XEW, where she was discovered. She married Alfredo Leal a matador and film actor and with him had two children: María Elena Leal, who is also a singer, and José Leal. She entered the world of film in 1954 starring in El tesoro de la muerte. After participating in dozens of films, most of them musicals, she obtained a role in the telenovela Mi rival with Saby Kamalich. In 1976 and 1984 she hosted the musical shows Noches tapatías and El estudio de Lola Beltrán respectively. Beltrán is still considered with Lucha Reyes the most successful ranchera-music singer of all time. She sang before the president of France Charles de Gaulle, the leader of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, the Soviet minister Andrei Gromyko, the prime minister of the Soviet Union Leonid Breznev, the King of Spain Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the American presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon and the presidents of Mexico Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Maria Del Rosario Olivo, participated with her in some shows. She was a young woman that was pursuing her career as a singer. Rosario lived with her for quite some time.

She was the first ranchera singer to perform at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She also performed at the Olympia music hall in Paris, the Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow and the Conservatory of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the former Soviet Union. Soon after recording Disco del Siglo with Lucha Villa and Amalia Mendoza "La Tariácuri" (produced by Juan Gabriel) she died of a massive pulmonary embolism at the Ángeles hospital of Mexico City.