#5: Superman by Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch
City: Sept-Iles, PQ
Radio Station: CKCN
Peak Month: June 1977
Peak Position in Sept-Iles ~ #6
Peak Position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #41
YouTube: “Superman”
Lyrics: “Superman”
Celida Ines Camacho was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, of Puerto Rican parents. She spent part of her childhood back in Puerto Rico. There she met Pepe Luis Soto in Puerto Rico in the 1960s and they began making music together. Not only did they make music together, they made love and were married around 1968. They also formed the duo Celinés y Pepe Luis, releasing several singles and performing around Puerto Rico. In 1972, Celida won a festival called Festival De La Voz y La Cancion, with the song, “Yo Quiero Un Pincel. She was initially popular in Spain, and Puerto Rico where her single, “Half A Love”, became successful.