Lupe Mejía, nicknamed "La Yaqui" or "La Cancionera Yaqui" ("The

Yaqui The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, a Uto-Aztecan language. Their primary homelands are in Río Yaqui valley in the no ...

Songstress"), is a Mexican singer and actress, known for her career as a performer of

ranchera Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional fo ...

s and other Mexican folk music genres.

Biography

Mejía was born in

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. She began to sing at the age of 7 in school activities and among family members and friends. She began her career when she entered an amateur contest hosted by a television channel. In Mexico City, she recorded her first single, "La flecha", with

Peerless Records Peerless Records was a record label based in Mexico. Peerless was founded in 1921 in Mexico City by E. Baptista. Early pressings of their gramophone record were made under contract by Gennett Records. By 1933, Peerless was pressing its own rec ...

and its immediate success placed her among the most promising new Mexican singers. Her first album was titled ''La flecha'' and includes other songs such as "Cuando te hagan sufrir", "La fórmula", and "El pájaro desplumado". Her subsequent recordings for Peerless were also hits. She also appeared in several Mexican films due to her success and popularity as a singer. She had acting roles in ''Condenados a muerte'' (1963) and ''

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'' (1964), where she worked with singers

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and Juan Mendoza. She has also recorded singles and albums for the Orfeón, Musart, and GAS labels.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''La flecha'' * ''México alegre y bravío'' * ''Chiquita pero picosa y otros éxitos'' * ''Lupe Mejía "La Yaqui"'' * ''¡Ánimo!'' * ''Se me acobarda el corazón'' * ''Lupe Mejía "La Yaaki"''

Compilation albums

* ''80 aniversario Peerless: 24 éxitos con mariachi y banda''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mejia, Lupe Mexican women singers Mexican film actresses Ranchera singers Singers from Sonora Actresses from Sonora Mexican people of Yaqui descent People from Ciudad Obregón Possibly living people Year of birth missing Indigenous Mexican women