'Satanic Voices' Attributed To Mexican Singer
Jerry Vaughan
By Rene Villegas
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A controversy involving leading Mexican pop
singer Gloria Trevi went from the seedy to the bizarre
Thursday as local media reports suggested she and her manager had
recorded subliminal ``Satanic voices'' in her songs.
Trevi, wanted for questioning by police in various Mexican states over
allegations she and manager Sergio Andrade corrupted young
girls, dropped out of sight again following an unexpected return to
Mexico early this week to face the music.
Mexican radio and television stations Thursday played portions of a
Trevi song backwards and claimed listeners could hear someone
uttering the words ``punished,'' ``You did bad,'' and ``That's why you
have to obey.'' Newspapers also picked up on the theme.
``The Satanic voices of Trevi and Andrade,'' reported Reforma daily.
``The voices are of a man and a woman. They give orders. They
scold.''
Trevi rose to the top of the Mexican charts in the early 1990s, building
a huge following among mainly teenage listeners with a
reputation as a rebel.
Her trademark was to appear on stage in skimpy outfits and pour
softdrinks over her skin, while her annual calendars, in which she
appears in various states of undress, adorn the walls of garages and
warehouses throughout Mexico.
But early this year, allegations first surfaced that she and Andrade
exploited young girls sent by their parents into the Trevi stable in
hopes of making it big in Mexican showbiz.
Teresita de Jesus Gomez de Yapor accused Trevi and Andrade of kidnapping
her daughter, Karina Alejandra Yapor Gomez, who
was 12 when she joined up with Trevi and Andrade, and is now 16.
A lawyer for Trevi, Francisco Gastelum, told Reuters Monday the
allegations were unfounded and that Yapor Gomez was with the
pair of her own free will.
The Yapor Gomez case triggered a string of allegations that resulted in
summons by police in the northern states of Chihuahua and
Baja California and in Mexico City.
Thursday's claims of ``Satanic voices'' subliminally recorded in her
song ``Ya No'' (Not Anymore), one of the tracks on her album ``Tu
Angel de la Guardia'' (Your Guardian Angel), added a strange new twist
to the Trevi scandal.
The singer did not appear before police in Chihuahua Tuesday as her
lawyer had said she would and was rumored to possibly be in
Brazil. Brazilian authorities said they could not confirm whether she
had arrived in the South American country.