- One of France's most popular singers and performers of the 1950s. Her 1956 song "Etranger au Paradis" was the first single to sell more than a million units in France. Other hits include "Hola que tal" (1954), "Amour, Castagnettes et Tango" (1955), "Toi mon Démon" (1956), "Buenas Noches mi Amor" (1957), "Bon voyage" (1958), "Sois pas Faché" (1959), "Muchas Gracias" and "Si tu Reviens un Jour" (1960).
- She performed for former French President Charles de Gaulle, former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
- Moved to France in 1954 and went on to have three gold albums and one platinum.
- Mother of Marie-José Lasso.
- In November 2005 she plans to give a Franco-Spanish concert in her city of Cuernavaca to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her accession to stardom in France. A few days earlier she suffered a fall. She nevertheless gives her concert sitting on stage in an armchair far too big for her and only performs two songs standing, Luna de Miel and And Now..
- Her 1956 recording of the French song "Padre" was later recorded in English by Elvis, who said in a 1958 interview that it was his favorite song.
- Lasso's song, "Extranos en el Paraiso" or "Strangers in Paradise" was one of her most popular.
- Rosa, who became Gloria Lasso, would record her first ten 78s from 1949 to 1952 at the Compañía del Gramófono Odeón in Barcelona .
- Eventually superseded by Dalida, she moved to Mexico, but attempted a comeback to France in 1985 performing at the Paris Olympia.
- In June 2022, to commemorate the centenary of her birth, the documentary film Gloria Lasso Sa Vie is made in French version 20 and in Spanish version under the title Gloria Lasso Su Vida 21 . This film retraces her true professional career and her real life by providing undeniable evidence.
- She was reportedly married nine times.
- "To Gloria Lasso. This is the name it deserves because it begins with a song of victory and ends with a weapon made to take men and beasts from afar. The lasso of a voice and the glory that results from it, that's how I imagine our famous singer" wrote Jean Cocteau in 1959.
- In 1960, after 1955, she performed for the second time at Bobino and in 1962 she sang at the ABC for thirteen evenings, having somewhat renewed her repertoire and performing songs by Serge Gainsbourg and Gilbert Bécaud . La Chanson de Prévert and And now will be two songs that she will perform on stage until the end of her life.
- She started singing in dance halls at the age of 15.
- In the spring of 1963, in debt and sued by the French tax authorities, her only solution was to flee to Mexico, leaving her three children in France, all minors at the time of the events. In this country where she has been known since 1955, Pathé Marconi has a subsidiary under the Musart label and her songs are regularly broadcast on South American radio stations. Her contract only ending at the end of 1964, Gloria Lasso had no other solution than to join this record company if she wanted to honor her contract with Pathé Marconi and not worsen her financial and musical situation.
- The first years of existence of little Rosa Vicenta Monterrat were not the happiest. In her writings she will tend to create a legend for herself, but the reality will be quite different. It was at the age of ten, in 1932, that the entire Coscolin family left Vilafranca del Penedès to settle in Ejea de los Caballeros , the father's birthplace. The family lives mainly on assistantship. Rosa, who already has a beautiful tone of voice, sings in the streets to support her family. Then it was during the Spanish civil war the departure towards Caspewhere the father will take over a cafe and have his two eldest daughters sing there. She met there in 1938 a young sergeant, keen on the guitar and engaged in the Francoist troops, Guillermo Tejero Benito whom she married at the age of sixteen in 1938.
- On April 18, 1988, in Paris, she married the boyfriend of her agent at the time. Still in 1988 and transformed, she posed in the magazine Lui. To use the journalistic terms published in Universal Music France , "at the age of 65 , she surprises her somewhat undressed by posing naked (in reality, slightly short-dressed showing off a breast) which can appear, depending on the mood, like a nice challenge to the weight of the years or as a pathetic way to get people talking about her".
- The kitsch revival of recent years had brought her up to date by making her a gay icon.
- Gloria Lasso was a Spanish-born canción melódica singer, long based in France.
- In the 1950s, she was one of the major competitors to Dalida.
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