The Mexican singer Paquita The Del Barrio occurs during the 14th Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Paquita la Del Barrio, singer Ranchera and Bolero who targeted machismo as if it were a piñata, died at her home in Veracruz, Mexico. She was 77 years old. His team Shared the news On his official Instagram page. No cause of death has been provided.
The Mexico Culture Department has published a statement Celebrating her life and her inheritance: “(she) left an indelible mark with her unmistakable voice and her unique style (her music) has transcended generations and has become hymns of female empowerment and social criticism.”
In the 1980s, Paquita la Del Barrio – which translated informally in Paquita of the Bloc – has become a familiar name in Mexico, where she was embraced for the disdain with which she wrote and sang on the men who have her broken the heart. In one of his greatest successes, “Una rata from Patas back“She compared an ex-lover to a two-legged rat, a cursed leech and a toxic snake.
The biting lyricism – sometimes bitter of Paquita was born from what she described as a personal experience. Née Francisca Viveros Barradas in 1947, she was still a teenager when she fled with a man over 20 years of her elder. After giving birth to two of her sons, Barradas said that she had learned that her husband was hiding a second woman and a second family.
“I suffered a lot. It’s difficult because the heart goes where it wants,” it said USA today In 2021. “These feelings are what guides people to my music.”
She began to perform in Cantinas around Mexico City in the 1970s. Initially, she sang with her sister in the Las Golondrinas duo, then made her debut as a solo artist under a new artistic name: Paquita la del Barrio. She then recorded more than 30 albums and a tour widely in South America, Spain and the United States.
We, Mexicans have this situation of machismo. Women are always injured by what men do to them: “She said Miami Herald In 2008. “I do not sing what others sing. I sing the truth, even if the gentlemen do not like it. ”
During her career, Paquita la Del Barrio received two nominations in Grammy Latin, five entries on Display panelThe high table of Latin albums and a life prize for life at the Latin Music Awards 2021 Billboard.
In feminist hymns like “Very veces you engage“Paquita has powerfully transformed her pain into the words of a full -bodied rage. Automization too. In the choir, she sang:” Three times I have cheated on you. The first time by anger. The second time on a whim. The third time for my pleasure. “The shameless nature of its music and its public image was cemented by another line of the same song, “Me Estás Oyendo, Inútil?” He would become the Slogan of Paquita La Del Barrio. In English, it means “Are you listening to me, good for nothing?”
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