Gloria Trevi

Infobox musical artist
Name = Gloria Trevi
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Gloria de los Angeles Trevino Ruiz
Alias = Gloria Trevi
Born = birth date and age|1968|2|15 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Genre = Rock
Occupation = Singer-songwriter, writer, philanthropist, actress, tv hostess music video directormusician
Years_active = 1989 – present
Label = BMG Ariola 1989-2004, Sony BMG 2005, Univision Music Group 2005-2008, Universal Music Group 2008-
Associated = Olga Tañon, Thalia
URL = [http://gloriatreviweboficial.com]

Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz on February 15, 1968 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican pop-rock singer, songwriter.

Biography

Gloria Trevi left Monterrey at the age of 16 to pursue a career in Mexico City [ [http://gloriatreviweboficial.com/biografia.php ::: Gloria Trevi Página Oficial ::: ] ] , where she met her future manager Sergio Andrade. Before meeting Andrade, she sang and danced on the streets for spare change, teaching aerobics and serving quesadillas at a food stand. In 1985, she was a member of a short-lived girl group named "Boquitas Pintadas" [ [http://gloriatreviweboficial.com/biografia.php ::: Gloria Trevi Página Oficial ::: ] ] . After the break up of the band in 1988, Gloria Trevi approached Sergio Andrade for the production of her first solo album, "...Que Hago Aqui?" [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EFDC153AF934A35757C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4 Slick Transit Gloria - New York Times ] ] . She is now married to Armando Gómez and has two kids.

Debut

Trevi released her first album in 1989, "¿Qué Hago Aquí?". The album scored an instant number one hit, "Dr. Psiquiatra", and four other songs from that album climbed the charts. Trevi followed up her first record with the 1990 album "Tu ángel de la guarda", which became more successful than the previous one. "Pelo Suelto" became her most widely known hit, reaching number one all over Latin America and Spain as well as becoming popular with the Latino population in the United States. Her third album, "Me siento tan sola", was released in 1992 garnering another hit, "Zapatos Viejos". These albums were recorded in Los Angeles.

Lyrics

Although her lyrics bore heavy sexual references: direct or indirect, she also aimed at exposing hypocrites, addressing the upper class, hunger, prostitution, religion, war deaths, issues few wanted to confront in Mexico at that time. Thus Gloria made powerful enemies, including the Mexican government. Gloria Trevi also became known as a challenger to the machismo ideas of many of Mexico's men, breaking social standards and taking a feminist stand point on many of her songs, while exploring sexuality in a way no other female Mexican entertainers had attempted. To taunt social conservatives, Gloria Trevi engaged in antics such as stripping male members of her audience. Despite the way she portrayed herself on stage, she was very popular among Mexican and Latin American children. It was common for young girls and teenage females to imitate Gloria's concert attire.

* "A Gatas", an attack to those who suck up to the wealthy. In the song she says she would "prefer to walk like a cat on all fours than be like the upper class", and knocks those trying to keep in fashion by saying, "Prefiero ser naca que ser una tarada". She goes on to trash those who suck up to people with fancy last names (the rich) commenting they are involved in drug trafficking.

* "Qué Bueno Que no fui Lady Di", she would rather be a "regular person" than to be Royalty since she would not be a good example. Gloria also states that she has her own opinions and she would never let anybody tell her what to say or feel. Therefore, Trevi is unwilling to compromise herself for the Royal Family.

* "El curita, la niña y la loca" is a song recorded in 1996, when Gloria shows her thoughts about the love between people of the same sex and teenagers.

* "Todos me miran" (2007) Is Gloria Trevi's most recent successful single, which brought her to fame for second time in all Latino America, Spain, and the US.

In other songs, she talks of children screaming in shops that they are penniless, or screaming out the window how lonely she is, or that her blood boils every time she meets a man chosen for her against her will, or entering the church, on her knees, screaming, and refusing to repent for her sins, or screaming to the psychiatrist ("Dr. Psiquiatra") that she is not insane but quite desperate to live her own life.

Trevi also, however, showed herself to the public as a girl who could break down and cry at any minute and about anything. Many times during television interviews, she would end up crying when hosts and interviewers mentioned her childhood.

Techniques

Gloria Trevi employed unique recording techniques. Many of her songs utilized background chorus and uncommon antics along with sounds. In "Dr. Psiquiatra" she starts the song with bottles of glass breaking. In most of her songs, she shouts incessantly; except in "Hoy no voy a Gritar", where she remains silent for children who have died as forced soldiers, among other things.

Film and Calendars

Trevi then filmed a movie, called "Pelo Suelto". In it, she participated with Humberto Zurita. The film topped the Mexican box office, setting new box office records. Her second movie, also named like her song, "Zapatos Viejos", was released, acting alongside boxing champion Jorge "el Maromero" Paez.

Gloria Trevi also released a calendar, which was considered by fans and critics to be very suggestive and sexually oriented. After the initial success of the first one, Gloria released several calendars in the following years. Her calendars were the first to be released in Mexico, and every calendar sold around 200 thousand of copies.

Touring

In 1992, she began a tour all over the Caribbean and South America, which took her to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile.

Meanwhile, she kept talking in public about such things as teen sex, abortion, drugs, AIDS, prostitution, panhandling, gay, women, and children rights.

candal

For years, rumors and speculation surrounded Gloria Trevi. But 1998, Sergio Andrade's former wife published a book how Andrade allegedly pick up teenage girls luring them into a web of sex and slavery by promising to make them superstars. According to the book, named "De La Gloria Al Infierno", Trevi was also a willing participant of Andrade's scams, and she had fallen in love with her manager, supposedly participating in his manager's sexual orgies and slavery acts with the teenage girls to please him.

Around 1999, many of the girls who were allegedly abused escaped from Andrade and exposed on television stories of horror and violence. Andrade and Trevi fled from Mexico. She was believed to be hiding in McAllen, Texas, stopping in Spain and Chile before they were declared, along with a third accomplice named Mary Boquitas, as fugitives of the Mexican judicial system. Soon after, Karina Yapor, a girl from Chihuahua, Mexico, gave birth to a baby boy she alleged to be Andrade's son. By this time, Trevi, Boquitas and Andrade were the talk of every Spanish tabloid television show in the United States, and most of Latin America. Trevi, Andrade and the rest of their 'troop' soon escaped to Argentina, where the remaining girls escaped.

Capture

Before Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were caught, they escaped to Brazil, where they were able to live for several months, until they were finally caught by Brazilian police and arrested. In Brazil, Trevi allegedly enjoyed walking around the neighborhood where she resided, eating at a local bakery every day. When they were captured, the news quickly spread throughout Latin America.

A legal battle ensued because Brazilian prosecutors wanted to charge them but Mexican prosecutors claimed the three prisoners belonged to them because they had begun their practices while still in Mexico. Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were flown from their original jail to another facility because of overcrowding. Soon after, a tape where Trevi can be heard singing songs (allegedly to Andrade) on the plane ride became public. In the song, which didn't seem to be a written song but one she was making up, she talks of how she'd "done everything for the love of" a man.

In the new jail facility, Trevi became pregnant. She was released under a Brazilian law that allows women who give birth while prisoners to live in a house with their children, but her freedom was brief, because once again, Mexican authorities began to ask for her,therefore she was placed back in jail.

Brazil's authorities came to an agreement with Mexican authorities on December 21, 2002 to extradite Trevi, and Boquitas to Mexico. Her baby ended up living with his grandmother, Trevi's mother. Andrade was sent back to Mexico a few months later.

There were allegations that, while fugitive, Trevi gave birth to a baby girl of Andrade, and that they left the baby to die. However, no body or evidence was found being unable to charge them with homicide. (Trevi later admitted in a comic strip that she does not know of the whereabouts of this daughter.)

On November 27, 2003, Andrade was jailed in the same facility as Trevi, but they were not allowed contact with each other.

On February 24, 2004, Trevi was expecting to be set free by Mexico's justice system, but was denied freedom at the time. After she learned that she would not be allowed to go free, she began a hunger strike.

Released

On September 21, 2004, Trevi was acquitted and set free by the court citing lack of evidence. She spent 4 years, 8 months, 8 days in jail in Brazil and Mexico.

Upon her release from prison, Trevi quickly hit the studio, recording her latest album, "Cómo nace el universo", which scored a decent success in the United States, being certified platinum and being nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the 2005 Billboard Music Awards. She subsequently embarked upon a nation-wide sold-out tour titled "Trevolucion". The tour played arenas like El Palacio de Los Deportes in Mexico in front of 14,000+ fans as well as Arena Monterrey with 12,000+ fans in attendance. The tour was briefly postponed due to an unexpected pregnancy. The tour was resumed in Phoenix, Arizona.

Afterwards, the Mexican Superstar promoted "La Trayectoria", which includes 14 of her greatest hits Live as well as four new unedited songs including "Todos Me Miran". The album also includes a Live DVD of her songs, "La Trayectoria" has been certified gold in Mexico (for her 50,000+ copies sold). "La Trayectoria" has also been certified gold in the United States for sales of over 100,000 copies. "Todos Me Miran" become a popular song in Latin America and Spain. It became a hit in Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, United States, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The album has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.

In 2007, Gloria Trevi released the album "Una Rosa Blu". It shipped over 48,000 copies the first day in the United States. It has been certified gold in Mexico (+70,000 copies). It hasn't been released in Spain, and Argentina. Its first single, "Psicofonia" has peaked #1 in Mexico. After the successful release of "Psicofonia" Gloria Trevi released, in Mexico, the now #1 hit, "Cinco Minutos" in March 2008. Within weeks of its release, the song became an instant hit for the singer/songwriter. As result of this, "Una Rosa Blu", her latest album, has been certified gold in the United States, selling over 100,000 copies. "Una Rosa Blu" has sold over 200,000 copies in Mexico and the United States combined. She has embarked on a nation-wide tour, Tour La Rosa Blue, packing arenas, theaters and other venues.

Discography

tudio Albums

ingles (U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Songs)

Filmography

* Pelo Suelto
* Zapatos Viejos
* La Papa Sin Catsup

References

* [http://gloriatreviweboficial.com/biografia.php Official Site: Biography]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EFDC153AF934A35757C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4 The New York Times]

External links

* [http://www.gloriatreviweboficial.com Official website]
* [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=10383&schid=10562&secid=1155 Gloria Trevi section on Univision.com]
* [http://www.gloriatrevi.net/ Gloria Trevi Non-official homepage]
* [http://www.corrientelatina.com/article.php?id=177 Gloria Trevi Interview]
* [http://www.gloriatrevionline.com Gloria Trevi Online]