Lope Balaguer


José Manuel López Balaguer 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. He had done tours to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique and United States.
In 1946, Lope Balaguer recorded his first disks with Luis Benjamín in Puerto Rico. With the orchestra of Antonio Morel, records a disk with Dominican songs. His more sounded successes were Never Have said you of Pope Molina, Neither Neither Steps by Luis Kalaff, Sands of the desert of Héctor Cabral and Rafael Columbus, Follow me of Manuel Troncoso, Then ''married me by tí of Rafael Solano, An unforgettable day by Pedro Vilar and Of meat or iron'' of Fernando Arias. In general, he recorded 28 disks of vinyl, 5 CDs and recently several CDs of audio.

Ancestors

;Source: Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía

Discography

Confession of Love
  1. Confession of Love
  2. Like this it is the Life
  3. Footprints of Pain
  4. Easy to Remember
  5. Súplica
  6. By All the Ways
  7. Injure me Again
  8. Crooked child
  9. It laughs
  10. Now That Are Alone
  11. Call me
  12. The TorrentHeadcount
  13. Headcount
  14. And Anybody More than Me
  15. The Goblin
  16. Liar With me
  17. It is Curious
  18. Preciosidad
  19. Goodbye Mine life
  20. In An Odd World
  21. The Kiss That Gave Me
  22. Mannequin
  23. Days of School
  24. YoursLope Balaguer and the Saint Orchestra José
  25. Apparition
  26. The Mortgage
  27. Corazonada
  28. You know Why
  29. Papers
  30. Always You
  31. I Am That
  32. In the Darkness
  33. Each Day More and more
  34. It was Your Fault
  35. If Some Time
  36. I Need youSerrana
  37. Serrana
  38. It wanted to Be
  39. It returns to My
  40. Paradise Dreamed
  41. Dry leaf
  42. Yours
  43. Selfishness
  44. To the Return
  45. They see
  46. Distrust
  47. My Adoration
  48. Missed MeetingThere will be A New World By Love Lope Balaguer of Today and of Always
  49. Why you Cry?
  50. It has to Be
  51. It is Well
  52. As it Treats A Woman
  53. It takes My Love
  54. Sea of Sleeplessness
  55. You Do not abandon Me
  56. I am to Your Order
  57. My Glory
  58. That RomanceAlbum of Gold
Disk 1
  1. Peregrina Without Love
  2. The Reason
  3. My Glory
  4. There is A lot That Forget
  5. You Do not abandon Me
  6. Follow me
  7. By Love
  8. Selfishness
  9. Sands of the Desert
  10. Crooked child
Disk 2
  1. I crossed the Border
  2. Never I Have Said it to You
  3. Flor of Naranjo
  4. In the Darkness
  5. They see
  6. Paradise Dreamed
  7. Have Jealousies
  8. Serrana
  9. To the Return
  10. When Me BesasI Seat me Well With you
  11. I Seat me Well With you
  12. An Unforgettable Day
  13. Of Which Voucher That Want You
  14. The Reason
  15. I crossed the Border
  16. When it Go back the Snow
  17. As it Treats to A Woman
  18. So Alone A Poor Corazón
  19. Adultery
  20. No Me Arrepiento of the Affection That Gave YouThose Years Forty...
  21. That Is missing You Do Me
  22. Free soul
  23. Embrace me Like this
  24. Yours lies
  25. Black night
  26. Last night I Spoke With the Moon
  27. Thank you
  28. Reality
  29. No longer I Go back to Want
  30. I Do not have to Go back
  31. The Night, the Moon and I
  32. You Do not go YouSpectacular
  33. It wanted to With you
  34. Absence
  35. A Woman
  36. Something Goes
  37. When it Rains
  38. I offer By You
  39. Amnesia
  40. The Love Is One
  41. Ojalá
  42. I Do not have CorazónAlbum of Gold
Disk 1
  1. When it Go back the Snow
  2. By Love
  3. Have Jealousies
  4. So Alone A Poor Corazón
  5. Crooked child
  6. As it Treats A Woman
  7. Sands of the Desert
  8. Paradise Dreamed
  9. They see
  10. Selfishness
Disk 2
  1. To the Return
  2. Flor of Naranjo
  3. Serrana
  4. You Do not go You
  5. I Do not go back to Want
  6. I Seat me Well With you
  7. The Night, the Moon and I
  8. Last night I Spoke With the Moon
  9. Embrace me Like this
  10. Of Which Voucher That Want YouMy Life Is A Song
  11. My Life Is A Song
  12. Confession / The Casita
  13. It finish
  14. Small Mine
  15. Without You
  16. Different Love
  17. Of Which Way Want Me
  18. What will be of My
  19. When you Arrived You
  20. Potpourri in Do Lower
  21. Old Letter
  22. Ternezas
  23. You Do not go You More
  24. The Nightingale Bohemio
  25. It is With YouAlbum of Gold
  26. To the Return
  27. Flor of Naranjo
  28. They see
  29. Serrana
  30. Paradise Dreamed
  31. Selfishness
  32. Sands of the Desert
  33. Crooked child
  34. As it Treats to A Woman
  35. So Alone A Poor Corazón
  36. By Love
  37. Have Jealousies
  38. When it Go back the Snow