Gloria Lasso (25 October 1922 – 4 December 2005) was a Spanish-born singer, long based in France. In the 1950s, she was one of the major competitors to Dalida. Born as Rosa Coscolin Figueras in Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia, she achieved a degree of fame and success in the 1950s and 1960s, with songs such as Amour, castagnettes et tango (1955), Etranger au paradis (1956, a French version of Stranger in paradise by Tony Bennett), Buenas noches mi amor (1957) and Bon voyage (1958). She died from a myocardial infarction, aged 83, at her Cuernavaca, Mexico home.