Celebrity Biographies
Trini lopez
He became very popular in the 60s singing the song “If I Had A Hammer”, and participated as an actor in “12 from the gallows” and other titles. Trini López died on August 11, 2020, at the age of 83, in Palm Springs, the Californian city where she had lived since the 1960s, as a result of the coronavirus.
Born in Dallas (Texas), on May 15, 1937, in the bosom of a Mexican family, Trinidad López III –her full name– belonged to a family with limited financial resources, for which reason she had to leave school very early, to work. He decided to spend his spare time learning to play the guitar. After deciding to embark on a career as an artist, he succeeded performing in venues on the West Coast of the United States, where he was discovered by record producer Don Costa, who offered him a contract. In 1963, Trini López released her first album, which included the aforementioned theme, which became a great success.
In 1965, Trini López decided to embark on a career as an actor, debuting with Divorcio a la Americana , alongside Frank Sinatra , where he played himself, as well as in Las flores del diablo , his next job, where he shared the bill with Rita Hayworth . and Marcello Mastroianni . His most remembered character on the screen was Pedro Jiménez, a prisoner always accompanied by his guitar, to whom they offer forgiveness in exchange for a suicidal action against the Nazis along with other comrades, in Robert Aldrich ‘s The Dirty Twelve , in which he had as co-stars Lee Marvin , Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson , John Cassavetes and George Kennedy .
After a brief appearance in the musical comedy The Phynx , the Chilean filmmaker and screenwriter Claudio Guzmán made him the protagonist of the original comedy Antonio , where he played a humble potter from a small fishing village in Chile, to whom a millionaire ( Larry Hagman ) he gives away his luxurious car, because it has broken down while he was traveling and he has to return by bus. However, having such an expensive model causes him nothing but displeasure, so he decides to travel to Los Angeles to return it to his owner. Trini López retired from acting after a chapter of the 1977 series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries .
At the time of her death, filmmakers P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes had just wrapped filming on My Name is Lopez , a documentary about her life.