Conny Méndez
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| Born | April 11, 1898 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | November 27, 1979 Miami,United States |
Juana María de la Concepción, commonly referred to as Conny Méndez, was born April 11, 1898 in Caracas, Venezuela.
Composer, singer, writer, caricaturist and actress. Her parents were the poet Eugenio Méndez y Mendoza and Lastenia Guzmán. She made her primary and secondary between Caracas and New York.
In New York she studied plastic arts in the Art Student' s and music in the New School of Music. During the decade of 1920, she returned to Caracas, and collaborated as a writer and caricaturist in different magazines and newspapers, among them: El Nuevo Diario, Elite and Nosotras. These cartoons were collected in the work Bistury: album de caricaturas (1931).
In 1946 she founded the movement of Christian Metaphysics in Venezuela, founded on the lessons of count Saint-Germain, a mythical figure of European occultism. During the first years of the decade of the 50' s, she worked as an actress in the theater work Camas separadas of Terence Rattingam, directed by Horacio Peterson in the Caracas Theater Club. In 1955, she published her autobiographical work titled Memorias de una loca (Memories of a crazy person) and in 1967 her book Del guayuco al quepis. However, it was in the field of the composition and musical interpretation where she made her more fruitful work. Her musical work of folkloric and popular music included more than 40 compositions, like: Chucho y Ceferina, La Negrita Marisol, Venezuela Habla Cantando, and many others.
The last years of her life were exclusively dedicated to the study of Christian metaphysics. In 1977 she published a series of works about this, among them: Metafísica al alcance de todos (1977) and Misterios develados (1979). In 1989 Rubén Cedeño published a book about the life of Conny Méndez with the title of: Conny Méndez y mis memorias metafísicas.
Conny Méndez died November 27, 1979 in Miami, United States.
