Rosa Vicenta Montserrat Coscolín Figueras (28 October 1922 – 4 December 2005) known professionally as 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.
Born in
Vilafranca del Penedès (
Barcelona) in
Catalonia, Spain, she achieved a degree of fame and success in the 1950s and 1960s, with songs such as Amour, castagnettes et tango (1955), Etranger au paradis (1956, a French version of Stranger in paradise by
Tony Bennett), Buenas noches mi amor (1957) and Bon voyage (1958).
Eventually superseded by
Dalida, she moved to Mexico, but attempted a comeback to France in 1985 performing at the
Paris Olympia. She was reportedly married six times.[1]