film by Ela Troyano (2003; 2007) La Reina, La Lupe by Rafael Albertori (2003) In popular culture Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ends with La Lupe's "Puro Teatro". Her recording of La Virgen Lloraba was used in the 1996 film The Birdcage. In 2002, New York City renamed East 140th Street in The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory. Cuban-American writer Daína Chaviano pays homage to La Lupe in the novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead-Penguin, 2008), where the singer appears in a cameo singing Puro Teatro. On the TV series RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Puerto Rican drag queen Nina Flowers chose to impersonate La Lupe. Her recording of "Fever" was included in the episode "Angels of Death," from season two of the Starz series Magic City. A poem by Víctor Hernández Cruz was written about her: "La Lupe". In 1991, comedian Sandra Bernhard released a track called "La Lupe" on her album Excuses for Bad Behavior, Part #1, spoken in Spanish and English, in which Bernhard briefly speaks of the dissolution of the La Lupe/Tito Puente relationship. In 2015, an analogous and fictionalized version of La Lupe (renamed Lola Calvo for the series), was heavily featured in an 80 episode Spanish-language biographical television series of Celia Cruz called Celia, on the Telemundo network. In 2017, the first episode of TNT's Claws is titled "Tirana" and in it the main characters lip-sync and dance to one of La Lupe's signature songs. In 2002, her song "Que te Pedí" was featured in the film Empire. La Lupe's signature song, "Que te Pedí", was featured in the 2006 film, El Cantante, starring Marc Anthony as Hector Lavoe. In 2020, the Colombian singer Kali Uchis, added a cover of "Que te pedi" in her album Sin Miedo (Del amor y otros demonios) References Further reading External links La Lupe, Queen of Latin Soul site for Independent Lens on PBS Performances of Pleasure and Pain: Dr Vanessa Knights (pdf) Unofficial website 1936 births 1992 deaths American evangelicals American women singer-songwriters American entertainers of Cuban descent Cuban women singers Cuban songwriters Fania Records artists People from Santiago de Cuba Musicians from the Bronx Salsa musicians Converts to Protestantism Former Santeríans American soul singers 20th-century American singers Singer-songwriters from New York (state) 20th-century American women singers Bolero singers Guaracha singers Burials at Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx) Women