Olga Guillot, Reina del Bolero, D.E.P.
Olga Guillot, born in Havana in 1922, began her singing career in the mid 1930s, part of a sister act, then as something as a Edith Piaf knock-off, before coming into her own in the late 1940s. Appearing throughout Latin America and in European and Latin films in the 1950s, she was a major Cuban star by 1961, when — unable to reconcile herself to the 1959 Revolution — she moved first to Venezuela, and later to Mexico. In 1964 she was the first Spanish-language singer to appear in New York’s Carnegie Hall. A star throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, she spent the last several decades in Miami, where she died Monday at the age of eighty-eight.
With over sixty recordings to her credit, her signature piece is “Voy”, written especially for her by Mexican composer Luis Demetrio. Here is Olga singing “Voy” from a 1999 Televisa broadcast.
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