LLORONA, LA
Created on 30/01/2003Latest update on 16/02/2024
Artist: Trio Perla De Occidente
Author: Luis Mars
Label: Black & White
Year: 1948
Based upon the legend of a Mexican woman who drowned her three children because the man she loved didn't care about any. When he heard what she had done to be with him, he left her for good. That's when the tears kept rolling.
Covers:
- 1953:
- 1968:
Raphael [hit Sp.]
- 1974:
- 1990:
- 1991:
- 1993:
- 1993:
Chavela Vargas [Costarican singer in Mexico, nicknamed 'la voz aspera de la ternura' (the bitter voice of tenderness); Frida Kahlo was a close friend, to say the least; outed herself at the age of 81]
- 1994:
- 1999:
Lila Downs [new version in film Frida along with Mariachi Juvenil de Tecalitlán, singing other verses than Chavela Vargas]
- 2002:
Chavela Vargas [as the Death in film Frida, dramatic build-up to the killing of Trotsky]
- 2005:
- 2010:
Not to be confused with Atahualpa Yupanqui's La Lloroña.
