Lope Balaguer

José Manuel López Balaguer (22 August 1925, in Santiago de los Caballeros – 29 January 2015, in Santo Domingo) 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 (from 1949, The Dominican Voice). 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 (Cápsulas genealógicas)

Discography
Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 1 Disk 2
 * Confession of Love (with Pope Molina) (1950)
 * 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 Torrent
 * Headcount (with the Orchestra of Ángel Bussi) (1950)
 * 1) Headcount
 * 2) And Anybody More than Me
 * 3) The Goblin
 * 4) Liar With me
 * 5) It is Curious
 * 6) Preciosidad
 * 7) Goodbye Mine life
 * 8) In An Odd World
 * 9) The Kiss That Gave Me
 * 10) Mannequin
 * 11) Days of School
 * 12) Yours
 * Lope Balaguer and the Saint Orchestra José (with Pope Molina) (1960)
 * 1) Apparition
 * 2) The Mortgage
 * 3) Corazonada
 * 4) You know Why
 * 5) Papers
 * 6) Always You
 * 7) I Am That
 * 8) In the Darkness
 * 9) Each Day More and more
 * 10) It was Your Fault
 * 11) If Some Time
 * 12) I Need you
 * Serrana (With the Orchestra of Ángel Bussi) (1960)
 * 1) Serrana
 * 2) It wanted to Be
 * 3) It returns to My
 * 4) Paradise Dreamed
 * 5) Dry leaf
 * 6) Yours
 * 7) Selfishness
 * 8) To the Return
 * 9) They see
 * 10) Distrust
 * 11) My Adoration
 * 12) Missed Meeting
 * There will be A New World By Love (1968)
 * Lope Balaguer of Today and of Always (1969)
 * 1) Why you Cry?
 * 2) It has to Be
 * 3) It is Well
 * 4) As it Treats A Woman
 * 5) It takes My Love
 * 6) Sea of Sleeplessness
 * 7) You Do not abandon Me
 * 8) I am to Your Order
 * 9) My Glory
 * 10) That Romance
 * Album of Gold (1975)
 * 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
 * 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 Besas
 * I Seat me Well With you (1976)
 * 1) I Seat me Well With you
 * 2) An Unforgettable Day
 * 3) Of Which Voucher That Want You
 * 4) The Reason
 * 5) I crossed the Border
 * 6) When it Go back the Snow
 * 7) As it Treats to A Woman
 * 8) So Alone A Poor Corazón
 * 9) Adultery
 * 10) No Me Arrepiento of the Affection That Gave You
 * Those Years Forty... (1977)
 * 1) That Is missing You Do Me
 * 2) Free soul
 * 3) Embrace me Like this
 * 4) Yours lies
 * 5) Black night
 * 6) Last night I Spoke With the Moon
 * 7) Thank you
 * 8) Reality
 * 9) No longer I Go back to Want
 * 10) I Do not have to Go back
 * 11) The Night, the Moon and I
 * 12) You Do not go You
 * Spectacular (1977)
 * 1) It wanted to With you
 * 2) Absence
 * 3) A Woman
 * 4) Something Goes
 * 5) When it Rains
 * 6) I offer By You
 * 7) Amnesia
 * 8) The Love Is One
 * 9) Ojalá
 * 10) I Do not have Corazón
 * Album of Gold (1980)
 * 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
 * 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 You
 * My Life Is A Song (1988)
 * 1) My Life Is A Song
 * 2) Confession / The Casita
 * 3) It finish
 * 4) Small Mine
 * 5) Without You
 * 6) Different Love
 * 7) Of Which Way Want Me
 * 8) What will be of My
 * 9) When you Arrived You
 * 10) Potpourri in Do Lower
 * 11) Old Letter
 * 12) Ternezas
 * 13) You Do not go You More
 * 14) The Nightingale Bohemio
 * 15) It is With You
 * Album of Gold (1990)
 * 1) To the Return
 * 2) Flor of Naranjo
 * 3) They see
 * 4) Serrana
 * 5) Paradise Dreamed
 * 6) Selfishness
 * 7) Sands of the Desert
 * 8) Crooked child
 * 9) As it Treats to A Woman
 * 10) So Alone A Poor Corazón
 * 11) By Love
 * 12) Have Jealousies
 * 13) When it Go back the Snow