{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Short description|Mexican singer and actress}} {{family name hatnote|Laboriel|Ella|lang=Spanish}} '''Esperanza Laboriel López''', also known as '''Ela''' or '''Ella Laboriel''' (born March 28, 1949, in Mexico City), is a Mexican singer and film and television actress of Garifuna origin.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Estrada|first=Tere|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4smAQAAIAAJ|title=Sirenas al ataque: historia de las mujeres rockeras mexicanas (1956-2006)|date=2008|publisher=Editorial Oceano de México|isbn=978-970-777-470-4|language=es}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Pareyón|first=Gabriel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhE5AQAAIAAJ|title=Diccionario enciclopédico de música en México|date=2007|publisher=Universidad Panamericana|isbn=978-968-5557-82-5|language=es}}</ref> As a singer she stood out in the interpretation of genres like jazz and blues;<ref name=":1" /> as an actress she had a long career as telenovela player.
== Biography == Ella Laboriel is a member of the artistic Laboriel family, made up of her father Juan José Laboriel, her mother Francisca López, her brothers Johnny, Abraham, and Francis, and her nephew Abe Laboriel. As a child she participated in different programs such as Tío Polito and Los Niños Catedráticos.<ref name=":0" />
Laboriel adopted her stage name in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.<ref name=":0" /> Her career began in 1960 with the so-called Golden Age of Rock and Roll in Mexico (''Época de oro del rock and roll in Mexico'') with difficulties associated with the prevailing machismo at the time, starting with her own father, who tried to stop Laboriel's career by like that of her brother Johnny.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last1=Hernandez|first1=Deborah Pacini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-o51rAMJEUIC&pg=PA377|title=Rockin' Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America|last2=l'Hoeste|first2=Héctor D. Fernández|last3=Zolov|first3=Eric|date=2004|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=978-0-8229-7255-6|language=en}}</ref> She was a member of the Trío Las Yolis, a group that became famous as part of the female duos and trios that sang and danced like the Hermanas Jiménez. She began a successful solo career performing genres as rock and roll, a go-go and ballads.<ref name=":0" /> She also released duet records with her brother Johnny Laboriel.
She participated in the organization of the Avándaro Festival in 1971, being in charge of the festival's press, a fact that caused conflicts with her brother Johnny.<ref name=":2" /> In addition to her musical and actress career, Ella Laboriel is a manager and organizer of musical shows.
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