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When La Lupe Sings, She Gets Involved

Ian Dove, The New York Times, 4 February 1973

THE HOUSEWIFE in Engelwood, N.J., who shops the local supermarket with her mother is also the official "Queen of Latin Song," with partisan audiences that stretch from New York's "barrio" to Venezuela and beyond. She also has no agent and answers her own phone.

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