La Lupe became a legend, and not only because she dropped out of sight in the U.S., amid bizarre rumors of her whereabouts. She was a great loss. She wasn't as honed a singer as
Celia Cruz, but she was a much quirkier one, melding Cubanisms, rock & roll and marginal flakiness into something personal and sometimes gloriously off-the-wall. ~ John Storm Roberts, Original Music