Lola Beltrán
| Lola Beltrán | |
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| Birth name | María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz |
| Born |
7 March 1932 El Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Origin | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | 24 March 1996 (aged 64) Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1947–1996 |
| Labels | Peerless, RCA Victor |
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María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz (7 March 1932 – 24 March 1996), more commonly known as Lola Beltrán, was a Mexican recording artist, actress, and television presenter.
Internationally renowned for her interpretation of the songs "Cucurrucucú paloma" and "Paloma negra", Beltrán sang before many world leaders and therefore is considered today as one of Mexico's most acclaimed ranchera singers. She was often nicknamed Lola la Grande ("Lola the Great").
In her native town of El Rosario Sinaloa, Beltrán completed secretarial studies while she participated in singing competitions. She then moved to Mexico City, never to return to Rosario, working as a secretary at Mexico's number-one radio station, XEW, where she was professionally discovered by radio announcer Raul Mendivil.
She was married to matador and film actor Alfredo Leal and had two children with him: a daughter, singer María Elena Leal, and son José Leal. She entered the world of film in 1954 in El Tesoro de la Muerte. After appearing in dozens of films, most of them musicals, she obtained a starring role in the telenovela Mi rival with Saby Kamalich. From 1976 to 1984 she also hosted the musical shows Noches Tapatías and El Estudio de Lola Beltrán respectively.
Beltrán is still considered one of the most successful ranchera artists of all time. She gave concerts before various world leaders: President Charles de Gaulle of France, the leader of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, Soviet minister Andrei Gromyko, Premier of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, King of Spain Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia, Queen Elizabeth II, American Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon and Presidents of Mexico Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
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