Conny Méndez

Conny Méndez
Born	11 April 1898(1898-04-11) Caracas, Venezuela
Died	26 November 1979(1979-11-26) (aged 81) Miami, United States

Juana María de la Concepción, commonly referred as Conny Méndez, was born on 11 April 1898 in Caracas, Venezuela, and died in Miami, 26 November 1979. She was a composer, singer, writer, caricaturist, actress and metaphysican.

Her parents, the poet Eugenio Méndez y Mendoza and Lastenia Guzmán. Her primary and secondary schooling was in Caracas and New York City. In New York Méndez studied plastic arts at the Art Student's and music in the New School of Music. During the 1920s she returned to Caracas, and collaborated as a writer and caricaturist in different magazines and newspapers, including El Nuevo Diario, Elite and Nosotras. These cartoons were collected in the work Bistury: Album de caricaturas (1931).

In 1946 Méndez founded the Christian Metaphysics movement in Venezuela, under the influence of Count Saint-Germain. During the first years of the 1950s, she worked as an actress in Camas separadas of Terence Rattingam, directed by Horacio Peterson at the Caracas Theater Club. In 1955 she published her autobiography titled Memorias de una loca (Memories of a crazy woman) and in 1967 her book Del guayuco al quepis. However it was in the field of composition and musical interpretation, where she did her more fruitful work. Her folk 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 topic, among them: Metafísica al alcance de todos (1977) and Misterios develados (1979).

Conny Méndez died in Miami, 26 November 1979.

Bibliography

• Metafísica al Alcance de Todos (English title: Metaphysics for Everyone)
• Te Regalo lo que Se Te Antoje
• El Maravilloso Número 7
• ¿Quién es y Quién Fue el Conde de Saint Germain?
• Piensa Lo Bueno y Se Te Dará
• Metafísica 4 en 1 (English title: Power through Metaphysics)
• El Nuevo Pensamiento
• ¿Qué es la Metafísica?
• El Librito Azul
• Un Tesoro Más para Ti
• La Voz del "Yo Soy"
• La Carrera de Un Átomo
• Numerologìa 22

See also

• Venezuela
• Venezuelan music
• Metaphysics
• Rubén Cedeño
• 100 años de amor y luz (album)

External links

• Metafísica by Conny Méndez
• AudioBooks by Fonolibro
• Conny Méndez's Biography in YouTube.com
• Conny Méndez
• Libros y audiolibros de Conny Méndez
• Page of the movement she founded (Metafísica Renovada Ray Sol)
• In the memory of Conny Méndez

Persondata
Name	Méndez, Conny
Alternative names	Juana María de la Concepción
Short description	Venezuelan composer, singer, writer, caricaturist and actress
Date of birth	11 April 1898
Place of birth	Caracas, Venezuela
Date of death	26 November 1979
Place of death	Miami, United States