As a child, she danced for the International Ballet of San Francisco, California as part of a Tahitian Revue.

Tongolele boosted the success of the "Exoticas", a group of vedettes that caused sensation in Mexico in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Yolanda was baptized by Mexican journalist Carlos Estrada Lang as "The Queen of Tahitian Dances", as each night she congregated a wide male audience who adored her perfect silhouette and feline movements that marked an era in Mexico.

The plot of the film was located on a small island in the middle of the ocean where some beautiful young women are transformed into blue-faced man-eating zombies.

[6] In 2012, the vedette returned to the cinema with a brief appearance in the film El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol.

[citation needed] In 1956, she married Cuban Joaquin Gonzalez in New York City, who accompanied her until his death.