María Guadalupe Silva Cosío, known professionally as Lupe Silva, was a Mexican singer and actress. She was the last singer who collaborated with songwriter and pianist

Agustín Lara Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino (; ; October 30, 1897 – November 6, 1970), known as Agustín Lara, was a Mexican composer and performer of songs and boleros. He is rec ...

. Her sister, singer

Rebeca Silva Cosío María Marcelina Rebeca Silva Cosío (26 April 1925 – 7 May 2002), known as Rebeca or Rebeca Silva Cosío, was a Mexican singer who was the last official vocalist of songwriter and pianist Agustín Lara. She also introduced and recorded Lara's fi ...

, also collaborated with Lara.

Career

She began her career singing at the Café Francés with Los Bribones and Lupita Corazón. She recorded one of her first albums, ''Mil recuerdos y una voz'', for

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 ...

. In the 1960s,

Musart Records Discos Musart, known as Musart Records in English, is a Mexican record label founded in 1948 in Mexico City. It is headquartered in Miami, FL and is a leading independent producer, publisher and distributor of Latin music, managing over 72,000 cop ...

hired her to record two albums with compositions by Agustín Lara: ''Evocando "La hora azul" de Lara'' and ''Canciones de Lara''. For the Musart label she also recorded an album with compositions by Gabriel Ruiz.

Career as an actress

As an actress, she played the role of Eduviges in the film ''La trenza'' (1975). In 1992, she sang at the

Teatro de la Ciudad The (Theater of the City) was built as the (Esperanza Iris Theatre) in 1918 and is now one of Mexico City’s public venues for cultural events. The theater is located in the historic center of Mexico City on Donceles Street 36. The former Esp ...

in the musical ''Solamente una vez'', which was produced by the

National Association of Actors The National Association of Actors (, ANDA) is the Mexican actors guild. It is a member of the Bloque Latinoamericano de Actores (BLADA, the Latin American Actors' Block) that includes all of the actors' unions in Latin America. The ANDA is head ...

as a tribute to Agustín Lara. In 1993, she sang in ''Gran gala de la canción romántica'', a series of musical shows that she organized at the Teatro Reforma of the

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. The shows also featured famous performers of Mexican

bolero Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It h ...

songs.

Death

Lupe Silva died in 2012.

Discography

* ''Mil recuerdos y una voz'' (Peerless) * ''Evocando la hora azul de Lara'' (Musart) * ''Canciones de Lara'' (Musart) * ''Lupe Silva interpreta a Gabriel Ruiz'' (Musart)

References

External links

* 2012 deaths 20th-century Mexican women singers Bolero singers Musart Records artists {{Mexico-artist-stub