Gloria Trevi

Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz (Monterrey, Nuevo León, February 15, 1968), artistically known as Gloria Trevi, is a singer, actress, producer, Mexican composer and businesswoman.

In 1985 he moved to Mexico City to begin his artistic career. There she met the producer and arranger Sergio Andrade, who formed the musical group & # 34; Boquitas Pintadas & # 34;. Four years later, with the help of Andrade, she published her debut album ...What am I doing here? distributed by BMG Ariola. In the 90s, she made her film debut with three films: Loose Hair (1991), Old Shoes (1993) and A Potato Without Ketchup (nineteen ninety five). She ended the decade with five albums that totaled almost 5 million sales.

In 1997, he retired from the stage after his television show XETU Remix. Some time later, together with her manager Andrade, they disappeared from the media again, while in Chihuahua a criminal complaint was made by the parents of a 17-year-old girl named Karina Yapor who belonged to the singer's work team and had disappeared along with her, her producer and other young women. The couple's arrest occurred in January 2000 by the Rio de Janeiro police, where Gloria spent three years in prison. In 2004 she was acquitted of the crime by the Mexican courts and released.

During the 2000s, he released five albums and returned to the stage with five extensive international tours. Materials such as Your guardian angel (1991), A blue rose (2007) or El amor (2015), are some of the works recognized from her. She has been awarded several music awards such as: Billboard , ASCAP, BMI, Premio lo Nuestro, Latin American Music Awards and nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards and World Music Awards among others. Trevi is one of the greatest exponents and references of Latin pop in the world, considered as a reference for waves of new generations with a legacy in the music industry and being named by Rolling Stone magazine as the Undisputed Queen of Mexican Pop. After two decades, in 2013 she resumed her acting career and starred in the Televisa telenovela Libre para amarte, produced by Emilio Larrosa. She is the highest-grossing Mexican artist of the XXI century according to Pollstar magazine.^{[citation required]}

Early Years

Gloria Trevi was born at the Muguerza Hospital at 2:00 pm on February 15, 1968 in Monterrey, Nuevo León. She is the daughter of the architect Manuel Treviño Cantú and Gloria Ruiz Arredondo. She was raised, from birth to twelve years of age, in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.^{[citation needed]} At the age of ten, her parents divorced and she moved to live in his hometown with his mother and brothers. During high school, he showed an interest in American and British rock music as he frequently listened to Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Deep Purple, Pat Benatar and Janis Joplin, among others.^{[citation needed]} She also studied ballet classes taught by her mother.^{[citation needed]}

In 1982, at the age of 14, the Televisa music and game show XE-TU launched a call for the double of the character Chispita, starring by the singer and actress Lucero. She traveled to Mexico City with her mother to participate in the contest. Due to her strong resemblance to the young actress, she won the contest and was awarded the character's costumes and a scholarship for artistic studies at the Televisa Training Center as prizes.^{[citation required]} With the authorization and accompaniment of her mother, she studied for a year in the Mexican capital where, at the age of 15, shortly before finishing her studies at the CEA, she was introduced to the producer Sergio Andrade. Gloria auditioned singing some of her first compositions and Andrade proposed to involve her in one of her musical projects.

Musical career

1984: Painted Mouths

At the end of 1984, the group Boquitas Pintadas was formed, made up of Gloria, Raquenel Portillo (Mary Boquitas), Pilar Romero, Mónica Murr and Claudia Rosas. From that moment, the preparations began; Andrade began teaching them music, singing, acting, and vocalization. He gave them music theory lessons and later gave them the songs that were part of his self-titled album released in 1985, of which he was the producer and director.^{[citation required]} Among the Song selection, "Cave Love" and "Se hace noche" were written by Trevi, who prepared herself for a year, like the other members, studying piano lessons and learning to read music.

When Boquitas Pintadas released their first radio single "No puedo olvidarlo" in 1986, the group had disintegrated due to differences between its members and the record company. Gloria, who suffered a strong economic crisis, began looking for work until she got a job as an aerobics instructor.^{[citation needed]} Trevi met again with Sergio Andrade to Show him your proposal as a soloist.

1989-1992: First recording works

She began recording her first album in 1989 at A DAT studios in Glendale, California, under the direction and production of Andrade. Gloria composed all the songs and included a Spanish adaptation of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" and J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers. The independent production was sold as a finished work to the RCA Víctor record company, later acquired by BMG Ariola. After several months of postponing the release of her debut album, finally in August 1989, the BMG Ariola record company released her first LP titled ...What am I doing here?. In December of the same year, Televisa welcomed him and he appeared with the theme of Dr Psiquiatra in the music program Siempre en domingo hosted by Raúl Velasco.^{[citation required]}

In 1990, he began his first tour of personal presentations, together with Sergio Andrade he began recording his second album during the months of September, October and November in Glendale, California. His second album, entitled Tu ángel de la guarda, was published in May 1991 and includes songs such as "Tu ángel de la guarda", the song that gives the album its name, "Pelo loose", "Gárrate ", among others. To promote the album, she traveled abroad for the first time, visiting countries on the American continent, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Venezuela, Costa Rica. ^{[citation needed ]}

On December 17, 1991, it performed for the first time at the National Auditorium in Mexico City.^{[citation required]}

1992-1995: I feel so alone and more troubled than ever

In the summer of 1992, she presented her third studio album produced by Sergio Andrade and titled I feel so lonely. It was promoted with the singles, "Old Shoes", "With Your Eyes Closed" and "I Feel So Lonely". Trevi promoted this material in countries such as Argentina, Chile, the United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico and Central America.

In 1993, the singer was selected by the Chilean press as queen of the Viña del Mar Song Festival.^{[citation required]} She also performed at the Paramount Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, and in cities such as Washington, California, El Paso, Dallas and in numerous places in the American Union, with a tour that took her to venues such as the Universal Studios Amphitheater in Atlanta, San Antonio, Sacramento, Texas, Chicago, Illinois and for the first time at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.^{[citation needed]} He celebrated his first five years of artistic career with a concert at the Teatro Fundidora, in the city of Monterrey.

She presented her fourth studio album entitled Más turbada que nunca in January 1994 in Mexico, under the production of Sergio Andrade.^{[citation required]} The presentation of the album was held in the Mexican capital where people like Elena Poniatowska and Carlos Monsiváis attended. It was promoted with singles such as "La papa sin catsup" and "El recuento de los daños". This production caused controversy due to its extravagant, ironic lyrics, full of intentional metaphors and harsh realities.^{[citation needed]} The album included 12 songs with rhythms ranging from rock, rock ballads, even funk songs and ballads.^{[citation needed]} The theme of the album reflected daily experiences with the Mexican popular language.

1995-1997: If you take me with you and XETU Remix

Sergio Andrade produced his last album from the 90s, entitled Si me llevas contigo. The album was recorded in a home studio in Cuernavaca and in Los Angeles, California. It received its release in November 1995 on the BMG Ariola record label. The ten songs in the production include themes that address religious homosexuality, economic crises, and political corruption.^{[citation needed]} “She who never was her” and “If you take me with you" were the only two singles from the album, both songs are ballads that had moderate success on the radio. "Mis Muñecas Cry" was planned as the third single, but was canceled due to its suicide theme.^{[citation needed]} Several projects were cut short due to illness of his representative; among the canceled plans, the recording of a telenovela starring Trevi under the title Gloria de los Ángeles that would premiere in March 1996, through the TV Azteca signal stands out.^{[citation required]}

On March 13, 1996, he announced that he was retiring from the stage due to Andrade's spinal cancer. He offered his two farewell concerts at the National Auditorium, on March 16 and 17, in front of more than 7,000 followers. After negotiations with Televisión Azteca, in August of the same year, he signed an exclusive contract with Televisa, according to the contract, in 6 years, he promised to make four soap operas, six movies and to host a primetime program. On September 16, 1996, he returned to the small screen as the highest-paid star of Mexican television with XETU Remix. The program was a XXI century reissue of XETU from the 1980s, in which first presented on television. Broadcasts ended on January 3, 1997.

2004-2007: Return to the stage, How the universe is born and The trajectory

Gloria Trevi, 2006

He restarted his musical career with his sixth studio album titled Cómo nace el universo produced by Armando Ávila and Jorge Plata and published in December 2004. To promote it, he had singles such as, «En medio of the storm”, “The tamer” and “You are a saint”. That same year, he recorded the song "Vive" as a special collaboration for the latest album by the musical group Kabah. He began his international tour Trevolución, on March 4, 2005, in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The tour that he planned to visit around 70 countries was forced to postpone dates and cancel more than half of its performances due to unplanned pregnancy.^{[citation needed ]}

La trajectory is the title of the first project he carried out with the Univision Music label in mid-2006. It includes live material recorded during his Trevolución tour in the cities from Mexico and Monterrey, as well as four unpublished songs and the single "Todos me miran". She continued promoting the album with the singles "Estrella de la mañana", "El ingrato" and "Sufran con lo que yo gozo", where she debuted as director of the video clip and of which she recorded a special version together with Celso Piña. The standard edition of La trajectory includes a DVD with the best images of the concerts of his tour. A year later, the same DVD was reissued under the name Más allá de la trajectory (2007).^{[citation needed]} That same year, he made a special participation in the musical theater play Today I can't get up.^[citation required]

2007-2010: A blue rose

Trevi in Youth Awards 2008

Their seventh album was produced by Sergio George, Bob Bennozzo and Armando Ávila. The album, titled Una rosa blu, was released on October 9, 2007 by Univisión Music Group. This production ranked third on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums list. ^{[citation needed]} The first single from the album "Psicofonía" was released in August 2007, followed by the singles "Cinco minutos", "Pruébamelo", "El favor of loneliness" and "What a girl is capable of for love". This work includes the first duet performed in his career, a collaboration with Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón, titled “Lo que te toca.” ^{[citation needed ]}

On February 15, 2008, the Una rosa blu tour began at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, California, which he presented in important venues in Mexico, the United States, Central and South America. That same year she participated in the reality show El show de los sueños , along with Kalimba, Edith Márquez and María José. That same year, she joined the Universal Music catalog who reissued Una rosa blu in a special edition. ^{[citation needed ]}

He continued his tour during 2009 visiting countries like Spain where he released the single "Psicofonía" in the middle of that year. The song was certified gold for more than 20,000 downloads thanks to his participation during the Gay Pride in Madrid. He collaborated with music and lyrics for the soundtrack of the series Mujeres asesinas 2, produced by Pedro Torres, in which the song Que emane appears. He also collaborated on the album Defiando la gravidad by the Spanish singer Chenoa, lending his voice to the song "Nada de nada ». On May 8, 2010, the singer concluded her concert tour Una rosa blu at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California.

2011-2012: Gloria and Gloria Live

On March 22, 2011, she released her eighth studio album, titled Gloria. The material was his first production under the Universal Music Latino record label, debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums charts^{[citation required]} and Latin Pop Albums.^{[citation required]} On June 2 of the same year, the singer received a Gold and Platinum record for the more than 75,000 copies sold of Gloria in the Televisa program, Pequeños gigantes. The production was carried out by Armando Ávila and Sebastián Jácome in London, Los Angeles, New York and Mexico. The first official single from the album "Me río de ti" was released on January 11, 2011, in May he published the ballad "Vestida de azúcar" composed together with Leonel García. "La noche" the third single from the album, featured a short film-style promotional video that premiered on December 1 at a popular movie theater in Mexico City.^{[citation required]}

She began her international concert tour Gloria in Nuevo León, Mexico. With her new show, Trevi visited numerous cities in the Mexican Republic and the United States. The concert on October 14, 2011 was recorded at the National Auditorium in Mexico City for a CD and DVD release that would be called Gloria en vivo. The album Gloria en vivo was released both physically and digitally in Mexico, the United States, Spain and some Latin American countries. Armando Ávila produced a new version of Laura Branigan's classic, Gloria, which was published on February 7, 2012 as a digital download as a promotional theme song for his album Gloria en vivo. The single debuted a month later at No.23 on the Billboard Latin Pop Songs chart.^{[citation needed]}

After the release of the live album, he returned to promoting his studio album and released the song "Wake me up" to the radio, and announced that in the near future he would record the video for the single "Cambio y fuera" under the banner directed by Pedro Torres. In August, she recorded the video clip for the single "Nothing is Impossible (Maniac)" as a duet with the group OV7.

2013-2015: Movie

At the beginning of 2013, Trevi began a series of concerts titled Agárrate, in which he covered his old hits to please his fans. On September 24, 2013, Trevi published its ninth study material entitled De película. This album meant the renewal of her contract with the Universal Music Latino record company. As the first single, the electronic merengue-style theme "I am not a bird" was released, which would later become the main theme of the soap opera in its banda version. The cut was released on May 27 and is produced by Sebastián Jacome and Motiff. On September 17, he presented the second song in anticipation of the album's premiere, a ballad entitled "You did not want to hurt me" that was co-written with Marcela de la Garza and his son Angel Gabriel. The song reached the first places of popularity in Mexico.

On February 7, 2014, the first phase of the De película tour began in the city of McAllen. who promoted his new songs in addition to the third cut of the album "Habla blah blah" a duet with rapper Shy Carter. On October 14 of that year, he released the song "20 seconds" as an independent single. The tour ended in the middle of of 2015 with great success.

2015-2018: Love and Versus

El amor is the tenth studio album released on August 21, 2015 and produced by Humberto Gatica, the material has 14 songs; 12 of them classics by artists such as Amanda Miguel, Raphael and Roberto Carlos, in addition to unpublished songs: "Immortal" and "Sin miedo a nada"; its presentation was in standard and delux version accompanied by a DVD with the videos of the 12 classics. The first single "Como yo te amo", a version by the Spanish singer Raphael was published on June 19 of that year. The same day After the worldwide release of the album, he also began his tour called El amor world tour at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. The album debuted in the first places of sales on Billboard, in the United States.^{[citation required]} On August 21, 2015, he begins his tour El amor World Tour at the Greek Theater in the city of Los Angeles. The tour was presented in the United States, Spain, Peru, Chile and the rest of Latin America. During 2016 the tour covered much of from Mexico and recording their third live album, Inmortal.

After the concerts ended, he joined Alejandra Guzmán for the release of the collaborative album Versus, being Gloria's eleventh studio album. The album had 10 songs and consists of a Versus where the artists join forces on a tour that bears the same name. On May 5, 2017 they released a single called "When a man falls in love with you", and on May 25 they released the second single called "Más buena". The Versus World Tour tour in the city of Los Angeles the first concert was on June 3, 2017 at the Staples Center, performing throughout the United States, and in cities in Mexico, South America and performing for the first time in Canada. The live album of the Versus World Tour tour was released on November 17, 2017, it was recorded on June 23 of the same year at the Arena Ciudad de México. April 2018 at the Hollywood Bowl.

2018-2021: Goddess of the night

In mid-2018, he was recording his twelfth studio album, this would be his first individual album with unpublished tracks since the album De película (2013). Eight of the twelve songs on the album were released as singles, during 2018 "Que me duela", "Me lloras" and "Ellas soy yo" had a good reception, the latter having a performance at the Latin American Music Awards. While in In 2019, five more songs were released, highlighting "Vas a remember me", "Hijoepu*#" with the Colombian singer Karol G and "Ábranse perras". Finally the album titled Goddess of the night was released on May 31, 2019 worldwide under the Universal Music Group label.

Her eighth tour began on May 2 in the city of Querétaro and without an end date, since in a press conference she announced that she intends to return to various countries in North America, Central America, and South America. She is the only artist to open three consecutive dates at the CDMX Arena, a venue with a capacity of more than 22,000 people.

In some of Gloria Trevi's dates in the United States, reggaeton singer Karol G was the opening act and guest.

In March 2020, Gloria Trevi's tour, had to be forced to reschedule or cancel their tour, this was due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In order to avoid contagion among the public. Despite the cancellation due to the pandemic, she achieved digital events and some of the dates could be postponed during the end of 2020 and part of 2021. She has also collaborated on singles together with Mónica Naranjo and Guaynaa.

2022-present: Divine Island

Her thirteenth studio album, Isla Divina, was released on April 28 and has twelve songs, among them "Rehearsing how to ask you for forgiveness" and "Nos vuelvimos locos" (with Guaynaa), previously released, and "La recaída" as the first single.^{[citation required]} The Isla Divina Tour began on January 20, 2022 in Mexico City ending on January 3 December of the same year in the city of Miami with a total of 56 dates between Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.^{[citation required]}

Acting career

In 1991, he ventured into the cinema in his first film Pelo suelto, starring alongside Humberto Zurita directed by the Galindo brothers, it was released in December of the same year.^{[ citation required]}

In 1992, her second film Old Shoes was released, for which she wrote the script herself along with Andrade, and starred alongside boxer Jorge "El Maromero Páez".^{[citation required]}

She began filming her third film in Acapulco, Morelos and Mexico City under the direction of Andrade in 1995. After six months of filming, on July 5, 1995, her third film titled Una papa was released no ketchup. In the film, she simultaneously starred as two characters: herself and "La Greñas." ^{[citation needed ]}

In 2013, he signed a contract with Televisa to star in the lead of their first telenovela, Libre para amarte, which premiered on June 17 on Canal de las Estrellas. Gloria composed the main song that bears the same name and also some of the songs that were part of the soundtrack.^{[citation required]}

Private life

On October 5, 2001, Gloria confessed that she was pregnant, and on February 18, 2002, the singer gave birth to a boy. His name is Angel Gabriel. Her third child, Miguel Armando, was born on August 10, 2005 in McAllen, Texas.

She married businessman Armando Gómez, making the civil wedding on October 22, 2009 and the following December 17, the religious ceremony held at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Clan Trevi-Andrade arrest and case

The Gloria Trevi and Sergio Andrade scandal began in April 1998 when former showgirl Aline Hernández published the book La Gloria por el infierno. Thus began one of the most commented cases in Mexico. The book that revealed the turbidities of Sergio Andrade, Gloria Trevi's relationship with the representative and the alleged abuses and humiliations received by the young women who worked with Andrade, sold more than 200,000 copies.

In 1999, Mrs. Teresita de Jesús Gómez, mother of Karina Alejandra Yapor Gómez, filed a complaint with the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office against Sergio Andrade, Trevi, María Raquenel Portillo "Mary Boquitas&# 3. 4; and Marlene Calderón for the crimes of kidnapping, corruption, abuse and rape of minors. On June 1, 1999, the Chihuahua Attorney's Office issued an arrest warrant against Trevi, Andrade, and Mary Boquitas. He requested the collaboration of Interpol to locate the whereabouts of the so-called Trevi-Andrade clan, under charges of rape and kidnapping of minors. After ten months on the run, on January 13, 2000, Gloria Trevi, Sergio Andrade, and Mary Boquitas were arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they had lived for three months with the sisters Katia, Karla, and Karola De la Cuesta.

The Mexican government asked the Brazilian to extradite those involved. After the Trevi-Andrade clan was transferred to Brasilia, Sergio Andrade told a US television channel that he had a daughter with Gloria Trevi in Brazil, before they were captured. Five months later, the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil granted Mexico the extradition of the Trevi-Andrade clan to face Mexican justice on charges of abuse, kidnapping and rape of minors. Immediately, those involved began a legal battle to prevent extradition to Mexico, arguing that their lives were at risk.

After more than three years, on November 28, 2002, Gloria Trevi announced that she was returning to Mexico voluntarily to face justice. On December 21, 2002, Gloria Trevi and her son Ángel Gabriel arrived in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico; to be transferred to Chihuahua, Chihuahua, where the singer entered the Center for Social Readaptation No. 1 of the State of Chihuahua. From her cell, Gloria wrote her story Gloria (2002), where she begins and concludes by quoting passages from the Bible. After spending almost two years in prison and the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office requesting the maximum sentence of 34 years in prison, Judge Javier Pineda Arbola ordered the immediate release of Gloria Trevi, María Raquenel Portillo "Mary Boquitas& #3. 4; and Marlene Calderón, for not finding sufficient elements to issue a conviction. After four years, eight months and eight days in prison, on September 21, 2004, the singer Gloria Trevi was acquitted and exonerated by the Seventh Criminal Judge of Chihuahua, for the crimes of kidnapping and corruption of minors, to the detriment of Karina Alejandra Yapor.

Her release made the front pages of most print media and was covered by radio newscasts. The showgirls María Raquenel Portillo and Marlene Calderón were also exonerated.

In 2022, the singer's lawyers announced that they will take legal action against the communicator Chumel Torres for defamation and gender violence, due to the constant attacks that Trevi has received in relation to the Trevi-Andrade issue.

Discography

Albums of study

• 1989: What am I doing here?
• 1991: Your guardian angel
• 1992: I feel so lonely
• 1994: More troubled than ever
• 1995: If you take me with you
• 2004: How the universe is born
• 2007: A rose blu
• 2011: Glory
• 2013: Film
• 2015: Love
• 2017: Versus
• 2019: Goddess of the night
• 2022: Divine island

Tours

• Trevolution (2005-2006)
• A Pink Blu Tour (2008-2010)
• Gloria Tour (2011-2012)
• Add Tour (2013-2014)
• Film Tour (2014-2015)
• Love World Tour (2015-2017)
• VERSUS Tour (2017-2018)
• Goddess of the Night Tour (2019-2020)
• World Tour Island (2022)
• Valientes Tour (2022)

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Awards and nominations