Lope Balaguer

José Manuel López Balaguer (born August 22 1925, in Santiago de los Caballeros – died January 29 2015, in Santo Domingo) also known as Lope Balaguer, was a Dominican singer; he was nephew of Dominican president Joaquín Balaguer and cousin of the musicians Johnny Pacheco and Nelo López. He married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of dictator Rafael Trujillo.

Biography Lope Balaguer debuted in 1940 as a singer in the radio. In 1944 in Bonao he did his first presentation in the radio station The Voice of the Yuna, with the San José orchestra, with which in the following year under the direction of the composer and Cuban pianist Julio Gutiérrez debuted in the Coffee Ariete in Santo Domingo. HILL Magazine chose him as the best singer of the country and gave him the nickname of The tenor of the youth. In the same year he travelled to Cuba, where he acted in nocturnal clubs of Havana and the radio, and is where he took the artistic name of Lope Balaguer.

In Puerto Rico he enjoyed of the success of The Escambrón, and in 1946 the magazine Living room Fígaro chose him as best singer of the year alongside Manuel Hernández in Santo Domingo. In 1947 it was conceded to him an agreement with the radio station The Voice of the Yuna (from 1949, The Dominican Voice). He had done tours to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique and United States.

Ancestors

Source Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía (Cápsulas genealógicas)

Discography Confession of Love (with Pope Molina) (1950) Confession of Love Like this it is the Life Footprints of Pain Easy to Remember Súplica By All the Ways Injure me Again Crooked child It laughs Now That Are Alone Call me The Torrent Headcount (with the Orchestra of Ángel Bussi) (1950) Headcount And Anybody More than Me The Goblin Liar With me It is Curious Preciosidad Goodbye Mine life In An Odd World The Kiss That Gave Me Mannequin Days of School Yours Lope Balaguer and the Saint Orchestra José (with Pope Molina) (1960) Apparition The Mortgage Corazonada You know Why Papers Always You I Am That In the Darkness Each Day More and more It was Your Fault If Some Time I Need you Serrana (With the Orchestra of Ángel Bussi) (1960) Serrana It wanted to Be It returns to My Paradise Dreamed Dry leaf Yours Selfishness To the Return They see Distrust My Adoration Missed Meeting There will be A New World By Love (1968) Lope Balaguer of Today and of Always (1969) Why you Cry? It has to Be It is Well As it Treats A Woman It takes My Love Sea of Sleeplessness You Do not abandon Me I am to Your Order My Glory That Romance Album of Gold (1975) Disk 1 Peregrina Without Love The Reason My Glory There is A lot That Forget You Do not abandon Me Follow me By Love Selfishness Sands of the Desert Crooked child Disk 2 I crossed the Border Never I Have Said it to You Flor of Naranjo In the Darkness They see Paradise Dreamed Have Jealousies Serrana To the Return When Me Besas I Seat me Well With you (1976) I Seat me Well With you An Unforgettable Day Of Which Voucher That Want You The Reason I crossed the Border When it Go back the Snow As it Treats to A Woman So Alone A Poor Corazón Adultery No Me Arrepiento of the Affection That Gave You Those Years Forty... (1977) That Is missing You Do Me Free soul Embrace me Like this Yours lies Black night Last night I Spoke With the Moon Thank you Reality No longer I Go back to Want I Do not have to Go back The Night, the Moon and I You Do not go You Spectacular (1977) It wanted to With you Absence A Woman Something Goes When it Rains I offer By You Amnesia The Love Is One Ojalá I Do not have Corazón Album of Gold (1980) Disk 1 When it Go back the Snow By Love Have Jealousies So Alone A Poor Corazón Crooked child As it Treats A Woman Sands of the Desert Paradise Dreamed They see Selfishness Disk 2 To the Return Flor of Naranjo Serrana You Do not go You I Do not go back to Want I Seat me Well With you The Night, the Moon and I Last night I Spoke With the Moon Embrace me Like this Of Which Voucher That Want You My Life Is A Song (1988) My Life Is A Song Confession / The Casita It finish Small Mine Without You Different Love Of Which Way Want Me What will be of My When you Arrived You Potpourri in Do Lower Old Letter Ternezas You Do not go You More The Nightingale Bohemio It is With You Album of Gold (1990) To the Return Flor of Naranjo They see Serrana Paradise Dreamed Selfishness Sands of the Desert Crooked child As it Treats to A Woman So Alone A Poor Corazón By Love Have Jealousies When it Go back the Snow