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Trini Lopez

Trini Lopez (May 15, 1937- ) is a Latin American singer/guitarist.

Born Trinidad Lopez III in Dallas, Texas, he made his name on the club circuit of the American Southwest before being "discovered" in 1962 by the record producer Don Costa while playing at the PJ Club in Hollywood. Costa was greatly taken with Lopez's Latinized versions of contemporary hits and signed him up to Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records. His debut album, Trini Lopez Live at PJ's, was released in 1963. The album included Lopez's most famous song, If I Had A Hammer, which reached number one in 25 countries and was a radio favourite for many years. He also performed his own version of the traditional Mexican song La Bamba on this album. He also recorded covers of other popular songs of the day, including Lemon Tree (1965), I'm Coming Home Cindy (1966) and Sally Was a Good Old Girl (1968).

During the 1960s and 1970s Lopez moved into acting as well as recording and playing, though his film career was not nearly as successful as his music. His first film appearance was in Marriage On The Rocks (1965) where he appeared with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. He co-starred the war movie The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Antonio (1973) . He continued his musical career with extensive tours of Europe and Latin America during this period, remaining firmly within his Latin music genre; an attempt to break out by releasing a disco album in the United Kingdom in 1978 proved an embarrassing flop.

Since then, Lopez has done much charity work and has received many honours, such as being inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2003. He was still recording and appearing live in the early 2000s. Recently he has announced a new CD and taken part in a benefit concert to raise money for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

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Recently he has announced a new CD and taken part in a benefit concert to raise money for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Singles. He was still recording and appearing live in the early 2000s. Standard albums. Since then, Lopez has done much charity work and has received many honours, such as being inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2003, Out of This World and The Music Never Ends were rereleased by Fynsworth Alley Records; both albums included bonus tracks (the former two, and the latter three). He continued his musical career with extensive tours of Europe and Latin America during this period, remaining firmly within his Latin music genre; an attempt to break out by releasing a disco album in the United Kingdom in 1978 proved an embarrassing flop. She was twice nominated for a Grammy for her albums The Music Never Ends (1997, a collection of songs by Alan & Marilyn Bergman) and The Pleasure of His Company (1998, another voice/piano album).

He co-starred the war movie The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Antonio (1973) . Other recordings include Baby I'm Yours (1992, a collection of her favorite songs from 1955 to 1970) and Out of This World (1996, a collection of songs by Harold Arlen). His first film appearance was in Marriage On The Rocks (1965) where he appeared with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. From the nineties into the 21st century, McGovern continued her careers in musical theatre, performing in concerts, recording albums, and she occasionally made guest appearances on various television shows. During the 1960s and 1970s Lopez moved into acting as well as recording and playing, though his film career was not nearly as successful as his music. 1917). He also recorded covers of other popular songs of the day, including Lemon Tree (1965), I'm Coming Home Cindy (1966) and Sally Was a Good Old Girl (1968). The concert was recorded live and released that year as an album entitled Naughty Baby; it features a very first recording of a lost Gershwin song "A Corner of Heaven With You" (written ca.

He also performed his own version of the traditional Mexican song La Bamba on this album. In 1989, she performed her debut concert in Carnegie Hall, singing a collection of songs by George Gershwin. The album included Lopez's most famous song, If I Had A Hammer, which reached number one in 25 countries and was a radio favourite for many years. She waited eight years to come out with another solo album, and in 1987, she released Another Woman in Love, a collection of her favorite songs by various American composers and a few original songs, all containing solo piano accompaniment. The next year, she released State of the Heart, a fully orchestrated album containing contemporary love songs, including the original version of "On My Way to You" (written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman and Michel LeGrand). His debut album, Trini Lopez Live at PJ's, was released in 1963. She also returned to touring and performing in concerts and began establishing herself as a classy, jazzy performer of nightclubs. Costa was greatly taken with Lopez's Latinized versions of contemporary hits and signed him up to Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records. She slowly returned to music in the mid-eighties, contributing songs to musical soundtracks and recording for various-artist compilations.

Born Trinidad Lopez III in Dallas, Texas, he made his name on the club circuit of the American Southwest before being "discovered" in 1962 by the record producer Don Costa while playing at the PJ Club in Hollywood. She continued her theatrical career throughout the eighties and even originated the role of Mary in the off-Broadway production of Brownstone in 1985. Trini Lopez (May 15, 1937- ) is a Latin American singer/guitarist. She then performed in two productions with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera - The Sound of Music (1981, as Maria) and South Pacific (1982, as Nellie Forbush). Official site (http://www.trinilopez.com/) (A detailed biography is available at this site.). In 1981 she made her Broadway debut as Mabel in a revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's musical The Pirates of Penzance. At the beginning of the 1980s, McGovern gave up movie themes to begin a career on Broadway, despite the fact that she never had any acting experience.

In 1980, she made a cameo appearance as the singing nun, Sister Angelina, in the comedy-disaster movie Airplane!. Toward the end of the decade, she recorded "Different Worlds" (the theme from a short-lived TV sitcom entitled "Angie"). These two songs (along with "The Morning After") led the media to call McGovern "the Disaster Theme Queen." McGovern continued touring and recording albums and movie songs (including "Can You Read My Mind", the love theme from the 1978 film Superman) throughout the decade of the seventies. The former (though not a hit) won an Oscar, and the latter received an Oscar nomination.

In 1974, she recorded two movie themes: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from the disaster film The Towering Inferno, in which she made a short appearance) and "Wherever Love Takes Me" (from the British disaster film Gold). The song was a failure at first, but after the song won an Oscar for Best Original Song, it began to quickly climb the pop charts making its way up to #1 in 1973. That year, McGovern was hired (sight unseen) to record the song which led to her signing with 20th Century Records. Her singing caught the attention of Russ Regan (who was the head of 20th Century Records at the time) in 1972 when he heard a demo she had recorded; at the same time, he was searching a singer to record "The Morning After" (theme from The Poseidon Adventure) for release as a record.

After graduating from high school in 1967, she worked as a secretary and performed part-time as a folk singer. Her influences include Barbra Streisand. She decided at age eight that she wanted to be a professional singer and she developed a taste for various types of music including jazz, showtunes, oldies, and folk. As a child, she would listen to a barbershop quartet (which her father was a member of) rehearse in their home; she was told by her elders that she began singing at the tender age of three and would sometimes sing herself to sleep things she heard on the radio.

Music have always played a very important part in McGovern's life. Maureen Therese McGovern was born on July 27, 1949 in Youngstown, Ohio. Maureen McGovern is an American singer and Broadway actress. 1979: "Different Worlds" (US #18).

1979: "Can You Read My Mind" (US #52). 1976: "The Continental" (UK #16). 1975: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (US #83). 1972: "The Morning After" (US #1).

1998: The Pleasure of His Company. 1998: Christmas With Maureen McGovern. 1997: The Music Never Ends (reissued in 2003 with three bonus tracks). 1996: Out of This World (reissued in 2003 with two bonus tracks).

1992: Baby I'm Yours. 1989: Naughty Baby. 1988: State of the Heart. 1987: Another Woman in Love.

1979: Maureen McGovern. 1975: Academy Award Performance. 1974: Nice to Be Around. 1973: The Morning After.