Yolandita Monge

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yolandita Monge
Occupation	Pop Singer
Date Of Birth	Sep 16, 1955(1955-09-16)
Age	69
Birthplace	Puerto Rico
Country	United States
Horoscope	Virgo

Yolandita Monge Biography

Yolandita Monge is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on September 16, 1955 in Puerto Rico, United States. The first Puerto Rican female singer to be nominated for a Grammy. As of 2014, she has sold more albums than any other female recording artist from Puerto Rico.

Her album “Luz de Luna” or “Moonlight” achieved gold record status and featured a cover of Celine Dion‘s “The Power of Love”.

Yolanda Rosa Monge Betancourt (born September 16, 1955), known professionally as Yolandita Monge, is an international singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality from Puerto Rico. She has been active in the music business since her teen years and has recorded twenty-seven (27) studio albums and two (2) live albums, as well as several greatest hits compilations and special appearance recordings.

Blessed with a powerful and versatile vocal range and timbre, Monge started out her career by winning a singing radio contest in 1966 (at the age of eleven). For such a young performer, she possessed an innate interpretative delivery well beyond her years that matched established performers of the time.

Her first-born daughter is famed singer Noelia. In 1983, she married her second husband, famed Venezuelan singer Balbino, with whom she had her daughter Paolo. She also has a son named Imanol with Carlos Mamery, whom she married in 1989.

Yolandita Monge Net Worth

Yolandita Monge is one of the richest Pop Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yolandita Monge 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She got her big break when she won a 1966 radio contest at the age of 11 and subsequently made her first public appearance on the TV show “Luis Vigoreaux Presenta”.

Her song “Cierra Los Ojos” or “Close Your Eyes” from 1975 was an international hit, performing especially well in Columbia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic.

Monge was born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico on September 16, 1955, is the daughter of Iris Delia Betancourt and Héctor Monge. She lived the first seven years of her life in New York City and then came back to Puerto Rico. During the early 70s, she met Alfredo Lorenzo, in New York, and married him on November 13, 1975. They had a daughter, Noelia, but the marriage ended soon afterwards. In 1983, she married Venezuelan singer Balbino, whom she met in Buga, Colombia, and is the father of second daughter Paola González. A few years later, the couple filed for divorce. On December 31, 1989, Yolandita married her manager Carlos “Topy” Mamery and in 1991 gave birth to her only son Imanol Mamery.

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Who is Yolandita Monge Dating?

According to our records, Yolandita Monge married to Carlos Mamery. As of December 1, 2023, Yolandita Monge’s is not dating anyone.

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Yolandita was claimed by the America’s music magazine Billboard in 1988 as “The best-selling Latin artist of the year” due to being the first Puerto Rican female artist to sell millions of records. She also was claimed by the international music press as “The most important Latin singer of the decade” (1980–1990). NBC traveled all the way to Puerto Rico to interview Yolandita because they consider her the most relevant artist of the Latin music industry and she was even compared with Madonna. In the interview the reporter said: “Yolandita has no plans to make the crossover, so Madonna can relax.”

Facts & Trivia

Yolandita Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Yolandita Monge celebrates birthday on September 16 of every year.

Monge has had a very distinguished acting career, she’s acted in more than ten Spanish soap operas, as well as various theatre plays and TV shows. Among the telenovelas, she acted in: Vida (Life), (where she performed with Johanna Rosaly), La Mentira (The Lie), Poquita Cosa (Small Thing), Escándalo (Scandal) (where she acted alongside Andrés García, Iris Chacón and Charytín), and Ave de Paso (Bird of Passage), where she played the main role, and sang the theme song: “Nunca Te Diré Adiós”, composed for her by Lou Briel. This song was a big hit in 1989, and it was included in a Special Edition Album: Yolandita Monge Live from New York. She also acted in the original version of the Colombian mega-hit soap opera, La Viuda de Blanco along with Osvaldo Ríos, Maria Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello and Danilo Santos. From 1996 to 1997, this soap opera was translated in more than 32 languages. Her theatrical debut was in La Visita de la Bestia, which is a Spanish version of Extremities, and she got good reviews from the press by playing the very dramatic main role. She also earned international recognition playing the Greek-soprano, Maria Callas, in the Spanish version of the Tony Award winner play Master Class (Clase Maestra) in 2003, for the Latin community in the United States and Latin America. Yolandita made all the critics bow when they saw her rendition of the late-diva. A year later she landed the lead female role in the musical La Verdadera Historia de Pedro Navaja (The True Story of Pedro Navaja), opposite Gilberto Santa Rosa. For her performance as Diana la Maromera (Diana the Juggler), in this musical, she got good reviews. In 1999, Monge headlined the TV movie Ocho años de Dolor (Eight Years of Pain), where she played a woman kidnnaped by the famous Puerto Rican serial killer and fugitive of the law Toño Bicicleta. Yolandita’s most recent acting role was in the Puerto Rican movie Mujeres sin Hombres (Women without Men), in 2006. She joined Sully Diaz and Claribel Medina in this story about 3 women and the revenge of men. After that in 2010, Yolandita starred in the first episode of the Telemundo TV Series called Extremos. In it she played the roles of twin sister. The reviews of Yolandita’s acting role were good in this dramatic role. The critics indicated that “…When it comes to acting, Yolandita can be intense and excellent as she is as a singer…”. Most recently, in 2017 she joined the cast of Malas and in 2018 she performed alongside other actresses in The Vagina Monologues.