Margarita “La Diosa de la Cumbia”

Vocalist Margarita (María de Santa Teresita Gaviria) offers earned the nickname “The Goddess of Cumbia,” because of her pivotal function in the introduction of Colombian cumbia since it evolved to become successful business genre in Mexico. Delivered in Medellin in 1960, as an adolescent she started performing at close friends’ parties with events and resorts, and soon made a decision to try her good luck as a specialist. After documenting some discs of ballads and jingles for radio and tv, she cut several singles and albums for Discos Fuentes. In 1986, manufacturer Víctor Nanni summoned her to sing using the group La Sonora Dinamita, who had been extremely popular in both Colombia and Mexico. Starting her profession with them being a visitor vocalist, she gained the main vocalist place and moved completely to Mexico. After dealing with La Sonora Dinamita for six years, Margarita opted to look single, founding the group La Sonora de Margarita. Since her 1991 single debut, Bailable con Tropical, Margarita provides released a lot more than two dozen albums and compilations including cumbias, boleros, vallenatos, as well as pop songs. You start with that record, she was voted Greatest Interpreter of Tropical Music for eight consecutive years with the important journal Furia Musical. (She’s also won the Premios Oye! four instances.) In 1996, Mis Cinco Sentimientos topped radio airplay and Latin recording graphs in Mexico. Following recordings, such as for example Oye, La Cumbia del Aida, La Suita, and La Cortina, all accomplished platinum and/or platinum position in Mexico. In 2005, she released the audio-video disk bundle Margarita Sinfónica. Commemorating her 25th yr as a specialist entertainer, it presented the vocalist fronting her personal music group as well as the Condition Symphony Orchestra of Puebla in an application of cumbias, boleros, and mariachis. It included duets with La Banda un Recodo, Bacilos, and Un Grupo Pesado. 2 yrs later, Margarita made an appearance in two main Mexican television applications: Cantando por el Sueño and Los Reyes de la Canción, which also presented music and social legends such as for example Jose Jose, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ricardo Montaner, and Yuri. Her 2008 providing Tentaciones presented the nuevo cumbia solitary “Colegiala” in duet using the music group Calo. The same yr she made an appearance in 12 shows from the telenovela Fuego en la Sangre and on the recording Todas las Mujeres de Manzanero — she was asked from the composer and vocalist Armando Manzanero himself. In ’09 2009, Margarita released the platinum day Me Quedo Contigo; thought to be her most “danceable” recording, it presented the vocalist in duet with Aleks Syntek within the solitary “Si Superias.” This year 2010, she celebrated her 30th wedding anniversary with another audio-video concert bundle, 30 Añoperating-system de Cumbia; its product sales achieved double silver and platinum position. For 2012’s La Musa, Margarita received her 4th Oye! Prize, for Mejor Solista de Música Latina. She implemented it the same calendar year with another record, Por Fin…Boleros! She was honored the Grado de Caballero in the Colombian government on her behalf career initiatives in dispersing the folk music and ethnic identity of this country overseas. In 2013, Margarita performed the Gibson Movie theater in LA for the very first time, leading to the root base music work Desde Mis Raices. She implemented it in 2015 using the studio room work Sin Fronteras, led with the one “Te Di Todo.” She also released her autobiography, Un Lugar Donde Habitan Tus Sueños. Close to the end of 2016 she released the pre-release one “El Cable connection” (offering Ab Quintanilla); it positioned on several loading and digital graphs.