Trini Lopez

Trini Lopez is one of those names I think gets unfairly filed under one song. Yes, his cover of If I Had a Hammer is the gold-disc anchor, but I find it more telling that he had a string of hits like Lemon Tree and was trusted enough by Gibson to design two guitars that collectors still chase. That crossover from chart act to actual instrument design is rare, and it says something about how seriously musicians took him. Born in Dallas in 1937 and working until his death in 2020, he had the kind of long, quietly influential run that outlasts a single hit.

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Name (English)

Trini Lopez

Name (Japanese)

トリニ・ロペス

Reading

とりに・ろぺす

Born

May 15, 1937 – August 11, 2020

Origin

Dallas, Texas, United States

Occupation

singer / film actor / guitarist / actor / pop musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

• Official sitehttps://www.trinilopez.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/trinilopezofficial/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trini%20Lopez
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9A%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540134

Tags

• Texas
• singer
• film actor
• guitarist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.