Lucecita Benítez
Luz Esther Benítez Rosado, also known as Lucecita, is a Puerto Rican singer, part of the country's new wave popular music. Born in Bayamon, a large city in Puerto Rico, she participated in amateur radio shows.
Entertainment career
Lucecita Benítez, along Chucho Avellanet and Al Zeppy were brought in to WKAQ-TV to appear in a segment known as El club canta la juventud. She also appeared in Paquito Cordero's film El curandero del pueblo, starring along Adalberto RodríguezBenítez's most important career step came in April 1969, when she won the Festival de la Cancion Latina in Mexico. She participated with two songs, "Génesis" by G.V. Lloveras and "Energía de mis manos", by M. de Jesús. "Genesis" received the highest points in the festival and Lucecita also won as best dressed performer, also sporting an afro that symbolized her ethnic background. Pedro Rivera Toledo's arrangement of Genesis also won as the best arrangement, although the orchestra was conducted by Jose S. Marroquin. The festival was held at the Teatro Ferrocarrilero in Mexico.
Other songs
In the mid-1960s:- "Un lugar para los dos" Spanish, these song was versioned of "I Only Want to Be with You".
- "Muévanse todos " Spanish, these song was versioned of "Twist and Shout.
- "No seas tan bobo" Spanish, this song was based on "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now"