| Show I Show Biz Personalities IS ir I By LESLIE LESLIE LESLIEW W W. W KING KINGS S s sS S 9 e ii r. r aa 1 S Jt it t t v i w u C 1 Trini Lopez Cant Can't Escape The Past Fast i By LESLIE W KING trini lopez cant can't the past 30 2 2 w pix According to the brief writing specimen which Trini Lopez submitted he cant can't escape his memories of the early years of his life OVER HALF OF his life was spent In the impoverished Little Littie Lit Little tle tie Mexico of ot Dallas Tex where his family slept and lived eight eight in a room At age 11 he decided he wanted to make music music music mu mu- sic his career when he was 15 he had formed his own combo and was playing at a Dallas res res- By 1963 he had his first broad success when an album released in June hit number two position on the nations nation's record charts within six weeks If It I Had A Hammer w part of that album and later went on to sell over four tour million copies as a single THIS WEEK in Dallas Trini Lopez will be honored with the city's Man of the Year award The persistence determination tion and constant drive which brought all this about shows strongly in his writing He has concentrated all thought and en energy energy energy en- en ergy toward his ambition But this has drained the singer of ot a great deal of ot zest for tor life Ute HE IS TENSE strained con con- strained He is trying to make himself over He is trying to protect himself His faith in the future can be easily shaken These things show In the writing writing writ writ- ing in the formation of the strokes in his signature which swing far back through the signature signature signature sig sig- nature to the left and either stay there or return to the right with much less force His concentration concentration concentration concen concen- upon making himself a success shows in the weight of his writing which goes through three carbons the tie-strokes tie such as the one in f I of forever forever forever for for- ever and the small smaIl size of ot his small letters HE KEEPS tight control over himself at all times although I k fr f TRIM TRINI LOPEZ I his emotional responsiveness causes him to react Intensely to other people and particularly particular particular- ly to their treatment of him He feels far more inwardly of ot these emotions than he normally dis dis- plays The feelings re remain main with him and store up He writes When I Hallin fall inlove in love loveit it will wUl be forever and It is true Trial has loyalty strong emotion and very long-lasting long emotional capacity He needs to take care In choosing the right girl for he could be hurt by her He would have to feel completely secure in her affection at all times THIS IS a profile report which provides only a keyhole- keyhole sized gU glimpse of the great greatsinger sing sing- er It does not atte attempt to give ve complete insight to the man Itcan It Itcan Itcan can be compared to his photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph which presents only one fragmentary mood of Trini Lo Lopez Lopez Lopez Lo- Lo pez but is a recognizable part of him lk Ik |
