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Gloria Lasso

Born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia, on October 28, 1922, Spanish-born singer Gloria Lasso popularized a Latin repertoire in France in the late 1950s. Nothing predisposed this child of a modest family, tossed from one province to another, to become a singing star. Married to a guitarist in 1938, she sang in cabarets and recorded 78-tours before trying her luck in Paris, where the couple settled in 1952. Noticed by an artistic director at Pathé-Marconi, Gloria Lasso added French songs to her repertoire and scored a major hit in 1955 with "Étrangère au paradis", Francis Blanc...