cantente If there was a Latino youth in the early 80s was a whole sensations such that it was Yuri. Known through his participation in 1979 in the Festival of Iberoamerican Television Organization (OTI) in the tie with Mexico, was disqualified because the track There's Always Tomorrow, authored Irasema, was an alleged plagiarism of McArthur Park song, sung by Donna Summer. However, the jury awarded, by unanimous vote, the prize for "Newcomer female festival," which earned him his record company that he recorded the following year, also the producer Julio Jaramillo, their second album, entitled Hope, which reached its first major hit with Hope and began her acting career in soap operas Colorina beside Lucia Mendez and Veronica, by Christian Bach. It began its international expansion and the album was released in Central America, South America, the Caribbean and the United States. that consecrate His success came in 1982 with his third album, full of sweetness, won the "Gold Disc" throughout Latin America, thanks to my shyness issues, full of sweetness, You and I This love and not touching (Castilian version of the song Questo amore non si Tocco, the Italian singer Gianni Bella) and his great big hit: "Maldita primavera" (Castilian version of the song Maledetta spring, the Italian singer Loretta Goggi), which would become the first American singer to obtain "gold record" in Spain.
was invited to the International Song Festival of Viña del Mar (Chile), and won the coveted "Silver Torch", which became the first Mexican singer in getting this award. In 1983 continued the success with his fourth album, Yuri, and shot his second film, Canta Chamo, near the Venezuelan band Los Chamos.
1984 was especially good for Yuri, for his fifth album, Karma Kamaleón continued in the first sites popularity and was when he decided for the third time participating in the OTI festival with the theme Better times, written by Sergio Andrade. He won the national competition and represented Mexico at the international stage, where it won third place and the "Award for best performer of the festival."
In 1985 he signed with EMI and recorded the album I ask you love, Grammy Award nominee and he brought the successes I ask you love, and let her give me a kiss. During an awards ceremony, Yuri escaped with Fernando Iriarte-journalist son of the Woodside-Maxine, whom he married after a civil and, in a press conference days later, personally and artistically disclaims family. Months later appear in Playboy magazine, in a study through the lens of Posing Pompeo, sales of the magazine is fired, even though Yuri never appeared naked.
In 1986 he released the album Yuri, which would follow the classic is it more than me and a broken heart. The following year participate recently in the Mexican OTI festival with the song The madness of life, and produced what is perhaps the greatest failure of his career and won only one vote of the jury and was eliminated. Shortly afterwards baptized as a Catholic in order to religious marriage, years later, the ceremony would be held invalid by the Vatican, at the request of Fernando Iriarte.
In 1988 he published the hit record Air, with songs like "What is it?, When the tide and clandestine love, conquers the top of popularity throughout the Americas. What's wrong? even got a record on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks like the song that was longer number one in the entire decade of the 1980, a position he would remain for 16 consecutive weeks and for a total of 33 weeks in lista.2
Given this success, the record company Sony Music would hire and will produce the album Sun Island, which included dance rhythms, rap, pop, rock and ballad, placing songs with great success as a man on the verge of a fit of jealousy (with which it returns to number one on Billboard Hot Latin Tracks ), Can not love you like me more and I can not Hi, the latter nominated for best video at the Grammy Awards. She was awarded the international prize Lo Nuestro Latin music. Yuri
recorded a duet with actor Don Johnson's song A Better Place (A Better Place), in English and English. In September 1989 he would edit his tenth album, Sui Generis, which the following singles: Bewitched (am), I have you want, you have control of my heart and my neighbor. In addition, this year he decided to separate from her husband, who also acted as his representative.
This is the video of his biggest success: La Maldita Primavera:
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