Gloria Trevi - Biografia en Ingles

Trevi followed up her first record with the 1991 album Angel De La Guardia (Guardian Angel), which became even more successful than the first one. Her song Pelo Suelto (Loose Hair) became her most widely known hit, reaching number one all over Latin America and for the Latino population in the United States.
Much of her work is chock full of disguised sexual references, amid fiery true to the heart lyrics aimed at exposing hypocrites, taking aim at the upper class, hunger, prostitution, religion, war deaths, issues few wanted to confront in Mexico at that time, which made her quite a few enemies, including many in the Mexican government.
•   In A Gatas, the whole song is basically an attack on the rich, or rather those who suck up to the rich, and that she would "prefer to walk like a cat on all fours than be like the upper class", that she knocks those trying to keep in fashion by saying she'd rather be (Prefiero ser naca que ser una tarada, "rather be white trash than stuck up"). She goes on to trash those who suck up to people with fancy last names (the rich) commenting they are involved in drug trafficking.
•   She also takes aim at the rich in Qué Bueno Que no fui Lady Di ("Thank goodness I'm not Princess Diana") by saying Princess Diana is dull and cold hearted as she sucks up to the royal family, and how royals intermarry their relatives as if they were animals, and that she'd happy being a nobody.
•   She plays a mock court trial for those who were truly in love, but who were indecent in Juicio, as if love was a crime. Many of her songs have references to raggedy clothes or shoes as in "Zapatos Viejos" (Old Shoes). In other songs, she talks of children screaming in shops that they are penniless, or screaming out the window how lonely she is, or that her blood boils every time she meets a man that was chosen for her against her will, or entering the church, getting on her knees and (again, screaming) refusing to repent for her sins, or screaming to the psychiatrist (Psiquiatra) that she is not insane but quite desperate to live her own life.
Examples of sexual references include: Angel De La Guardia is an idiom for condom in Mexico. Más Turbada Que Nunca ("More deranged than ever") is a pun for masturbada ("masturbated"). Enamorados de la Mano means "Lovers holding hands" or, again, "in love with the hand", masturbation.
Regarding technique, she utilizes background chorus and crazy antics complete with sounds. In Psiquiatra she starts the song with bottles of glass breaking. In one of her songs she bangs on a piano as if she was crazy. In another song, she makes a crunchy sound of "breaking her hair". In most of her songs, she shouts incessantly... except in Hoy no voy a Gritar ("Today I am not going to shout") where she becomes silent for the young children who have died who were forced into being soldiers for war.
Trevi then filmed a movie, also named Pelo Suelto. In it, she participated with fellow wild living former world boxing champion Jorge Paez. The movie became a number one hit, and Gloria was invited to tour in many countries. 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. She also released her first calendar, which was considered by many of her fans and critics to be very suggestive and sexually oriented. Meanwhile, she kept talking in public about such things as teen sex, abortion, drugs, AIDS, prostitution, panhandling and anything that came into her mind.
Her third album, Me Siento Tan Sola (I Feel so Lonely), was released in 1993, and it garnered her another hit, Zapatos Viejos (My Old Shoes). The album was taped in Los Angeles. Gloria released a new calendar, which was even more suggestive than the first one. Then, her second movie, also named like her song, Zapatos Viejos, was released.
Trevi became more reclusive after that. For years, all that was heard about her were rumors and speculation. But then, in 1995, Sergio Andrade's former wife published a book about how Andrade allegedly would pick up teenaged girls and lure them into a web of sex and slavery by promising to make them superstars. According to the book, named De La Gloria Al Infierno (From Glory to Hell), 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 teenaged girls just to please him.

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