{"id":91552,"date":"2020-08-11T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=91552"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:40:23","slug":"actor-and-singer-trini-lopez-dies-at-83-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=91552","title":{"rendered":"Actor and Singer Trini Lopez Dies at 83 from Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trinidad \u201cTrini\u201d Lopez, singer, guitarist and actor died on August 11, 2020, from Covid-19, in Palm Springs, California. He was 83.<\/p>\n

Lopez started his own band at age 15 and caught the eye of rock and roll legend Buddy Holly, who recommended him to a music producer who signed Lopez and his band, The Big Beats, to Columbia Records. Eventually, Lopez quit The Big Beats and began a solo career and was signed to Reprise Records. His debut album \u201cTrini Lopez at PJ\u2019s\u201d debuted in 1963 and peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200. Since his debut, Lopez produced over thirty albums and had 16 Top 40 songs on the charts from 1963-1968. His hit singles include \u201cIf I Had a Hammer\u201d, \u201cLemon Tree\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m Comin\u2019 Home, Cindy\u201d, \u201cSally was a Good Girl\u201d. \u201cMichael\u201d, Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now\u201d, and \u201cThe Bramble Bush\u201d. <\/p>\n

Lopez was also known for designing two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, which are now collectors\u2019 items.<\/p>\n

During the 1960s and 1970s Lopez tried his hand in acting. Although short-lived oez appeared in TV and film productions including MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS (1965), THE RELUCTANT HEROES (1971), ADAM-12 (1968), THE HARDY BOYS\/NANCY DREW MYSTERIES (1977) and the World War II drama THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), with Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.<\/p>\n

Ringside Report sends our condolences to Lopez\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n

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[AdSense-A] By Geoffrey Huchel Trinidad \u201cTrini\u201d Lopez, singer, guitarist and actor died on August 11, 2020, from Covid-19, in Palm Springs, California. He was 83. Lopez started his own band at age 15 and caught the eye of rock and roll legend Buddy Holly, who recommended him to a music producer who signed Lopez and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[23023],"class_list":["post-91552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-actor-and-singer-trini-lopez-dies-at-83-from-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91552"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}