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| Birth Name(s) : Gloria de los ngeles Trevio Ruiz |
Date of Birth: February 15, 1970 |
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Gloria Trevi was born in Mexico and became a superstar in the 1980s and has been likened to strong females such as Janis Joplin and Madonna.
The 1990s saw an abrupt decline in her career as she was wanted by the Mexican police and later Interpol for child prostitution, child slavery and child abuse. She was finally extradited to Mexico on December 21, 2002 after Brazilian authorities declined her petition for political asylum. Trevi and her infant son were escorted by Mexican authorities who planned to put her on trial for child abuse and molestation charges in early 2003. |
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Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz on February 15, 1968 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is an iconic Mexican pop-rock singer, songwriter, cartoonist, actress, pinup-model, forward/fashion designer, writer and painter.
Gloria Trevi left Monterrey at the age of 12 to pursue a career in Mexico City, where she met her future manager Sergio Andrade. Before meeting Andrade, she sang and dance 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.
With Andrade's help, 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 1991 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 1993 garnering another hit, "Zapatos Viejos". These albums were recorded in Los Angeles.
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 attempt. 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.
- Gloria plays a mock court trial for those who truly in love, but who were indecent in "El Juicio", as if love were a crime..
Trevi, however, also 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.
Gloria Trevi had unique recording techniques. Many of her songs utilized background chorus and crazy antics along with sounds. In "Dr. Psiquiatra" she starts the song with bottles of glass breaking, in another one, Gloria bangs on a piano as if she was crazy and also cutting her hair. In most of her songs, she shouts incessantly...except in Hoy no voy a Gritar, she remains silent for the children who have died who were forced as soldiers, among other things.
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, children and animals rights and anything that came into her mind.
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.
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.
The album has sold over 250,000 copies worlwide. Although she is still an energetic performer and has not made a full reversion to what some people considered raunchy and wild concert antics with which she shocked Mexico in the '90s, Trevi has shown to be more passive and reflective at this time of her career. |
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