Trini Lopez
Trini Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, United States on May 15th, 1937 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 83, Trini Lopez biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Trinidad "Trini" López III (born May 15, 1937) is an American singer, guitarist, and actor.
His first album featured a version of "If I Had a Hammer," which earned him a Golden Disc.
"Lemon Tree," "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy," and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" were among the hits.
He made two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, which are now collector's items.
Early life
Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, on May 15, 1937. Trinidad Lopez II, his father, a dancer, actor, and guitarist, performed in Mexico; his mother, Petra Gonzalez, was a performer. Before heading to Dallas, they married in Moroleón, Guanajuato. Lopez had four sisters (two of whom are deceased) and a brother, Jesse, who is also a singer, as well as a child. He grew up on Ashland Street in Dallas' Little Mexico neighborhood, and attended grammar school and N.R. High School at Crozier Tech. In his senior year, he dropped out of high school in order to earn enough money to help the family.
Personal life
Lopez, a lifelong bachelor, had no children. Trini Martinez, his nephew, was the drummer for the Dallas indie rock band Bedhead.
Lopez died in Palm Springs, California, on August 11, 2020, at the Desert Regional Medical Center. During the COVID-19 pandemic in California, he was 83 years old and suffered with COVID-19.
Career
At the age of 15, Lopez formed his first band in Wichita Falls, Texas. Around 1955/56 Lopez and his band appeared at The Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby, the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald. Producer Norman Petty of Clovis, New Mexico, received fame in 1957 on the recommendation of Buddy Holly's father, Trini, and his company "The Big Beats." Petty has signed a deal with Columbia Records, which also released the single "Clark's Expedition"/"Big Boy" as a result. Lopez left the group and made his first solo album, "The Right To Rock," for the Dallas-based Volk Records, and then signed with King Records in 1959, releasing more than a dozen singles for the brand, none of which charted.
Lopez responded after the King's contract came to an end in late 1962, when he was offered by producer Snuff Garrett to join the post-Holly Crickets as a vocalist. That was not going to happen after a few weeks of auditions in Los Angeles. He enjoyed a steady job at the nightclub PJ's, where his audience grew rapidly. Frank Sinatra, who had started Reprise Records and later signed Lopez, was heard on the radio.
Trini Lopez at PJ's, his debut live album, was released in 1963. (R/RS 6093). The album featured a version of Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer," which reached number one in 36 countries (no). There are three in the United States, and he has been a radio favorite for many years. It has sold more than one million copies and has been given a gold disc. On the album, he performed his own interpretation of the Mexican song "La Bamba"; his recording of the song was later reissued as a single in 1966. Green, Green, written by Randy Sparks and Barry McGuire and originally released by the New Christy Minstrels earlier this year on their Columbia album Ramblin, was another live album from PJ's (R/RS 6103).
Lopez had 13 chart singles through 1968, including "Lemon Tree" (1965), "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" (1966), and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" (1968). "People ask about 'Lemon Tree' all the time," Lopez told Portland Magazine later this year. It's one of my most requested songs. It's a catchy song. "I just happen to like the chorus" (1964), "Gonna Get Along Without Ya" Now" (1967), and "The Bramble Bush" (1967), which he performed in the movie The Dirty Dozen. Beyond his fame on record, he rose to the top nightclub entertainers of the time, regularly headlining in Las Vegas. He released "Welcome to Trini Country" in Nashville in 1968. (R/RS 6300).
In 1967, Lopez released a single advertising the Coca-Cola soft drink Fresca. In 1969, NBC aired a Trini Lopez variety special starring surf guitar band The Ventures and Nancy Ames as guests. He appears on the soundtrack, as The Trini Lopez Show, with him as his backing band.
During this period, he continued his musical career with extensive tours of Europe and Latin America; his attempts to break out by releasing a disco album in 1978 proved to be a flop.
Lopez founded Legacy: My Texas Roots in 2002, a collaboration with Art Greenhaw. Lopez, Greenhaw, and Lopez's brother, Jesse, were among the album's "Texas Roots Combo" on the record. "The album has an easygoing feel to Lopez's classic live sets from the 1960s, but it makes a good deal harder." Lopez continued to concentrate on charitable causes.
In the years leading up to his death, Lopez was still recording and watching live. He appeared in a charity concert to raise funds for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Maastricht, the Netherlands' violinist and composer André Rieu. El Inmortal was born in 2010, and his sixth album, Into The Future, followed him year.
Acting career
Lopez became a successful actor in the 1960s and 1970s, but his film career was not as lucrative as his music. Lopez's first film appearance was in Marriage on the Rocks (1965), in which he made a cameo appearance in a nightclub scene; Lopez's soundtrack, "Sinner Man," became a hit single (no. Pop/no 54 pop/no. (Adult adult contemporary) He was one of The Dirty Dozen (1967), appeared in The Phynx (1970), and played the title role in Claudio Guzman's Antonio (1973). On the television show Adam-12, he made two appearances (playing different characters). Julio Ramirez appeared in "The Silent Scream," a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries television series.
Honors, awards, distinctions
- In 1993, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to Lopez.
- He was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2003.
- On May 15, 2008, his 71st birthday, Lopez was inducted into the Las Vegas Walk of Stars.
- In April, 2022, a documentary film was released, My Name is Lopez, that includes a history of his life and career through archival and new performances and interviews.