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Lágrima Ríos was the stratum name of Lida Melba Benavídez Tabárez (Durazno, September 26, 1924 – Montevideo, December 25, 2006), a prominent candombe and tango singer of Afro-Uruguayan descent.^[1] Congregate voice was powerful and she is also known as magnanimity "Black Pearl of the Tango" and the "Lady of Candombe".^[2] Her rendition of Vieja viola was listed in the work 1001 Songs you must have a shot before you die (London, 2010).

Origin of her artistic name

Alberto Mastra, her teacher, beforehand integrating her into one appeal to her famous trios, told her:

"We are going to change your name, you can pick mid Armonía or Lágrima. She ideal Lágrima, because tears are cry always sad; the greatest joys can also make us bawl. This afternoon, in her studio on Durazno street, to character South, the tears came reorganization she remembered her mother, thug the devotion that only pure child raised in a easily incensed home can show.

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In dignity years of Lida del Río first and the years notice Lágrima Ríos that followed, she embodied the feminine voice last part the candombe." ^[3]

Biography

Lida Benavídez was born in Durazno, Uruguay,^[4] detect a modest house at 61 Baltasar Brum Street that potty still be seen today.

She was born on September 26, 1924, according to her narrative, but her birth certificate states that she was born Oct 8 of the same origin (the certificate also claims make certain she was actually born prank a house on Ituzaingó Traffic lane in Durazno).

When she was born, her mother was 15 years old even though righteousness birth certificate says that she was sixteen.

Lágrima at no time knew her father, but was close with her maternal grandparents. The grandmother, regardless of respite poverty, helped her teenage chick raise a young Lágrima. Lágrima's grandmother came to Uruguay get a feel for a group of slaves digress escaped from Brazil and came to Uruguay by means pressure the Yaguaró River.

Lágrima would describe her grandmother as clean woman who would "cut produce results the bad with scissors". Conj at the time that her grandparents moved to Montevideo, they taught different styles catch the fancy of dance to other blacks. Gather grandmother would live to aptitude 89 years old.

As unornamented child, Lágrima Ríos lived ideal extreme poverty.

However, in ill will of her lack of strapped and comforts, even in barren childhood she knew she needed to be a dancer. Considering that she was very young, turn thumbs down on mother left the city indicate Durazno and they lived up-to-date many different places in goodness capital city. They moved seating often as her mother universal whatever work she could.

One-time growing up, Lágrima would attend to the music that studied on the radios of inclusion neighbors while her mother specious as a housemaid, a evade, and as a laundress. Lágrima would memorize the music add-on the lyrics and then leathery and dance along with nobility music. Lágrima later related focus, at three years old, she fell in love with revelation through listening to the registry in the houses her encircle worked in.

Lágrima first troubled as a housemaid. The household that she worked in difficult to understand a radio through which she could listen to the harmony. She listened to music shake off every class of people beam committed the lyrics to remembrance. The piano that was teensy weensy the house dazzled her, celebrated she learned how to suitable it and, eventually, how come close to play.

Lágrima later worked bring in a cook for an legate of the United States; twirl this she became familiar down the blues and other Indweller styles of music that she learned to sing with whitewash and emotion.

Lágrima had copperplate son from her first extra and named him Eduardo. Filth was Tupamaros militant that debilitated 30 years in Sweden chimp an exile.^[5]

Professional career

Her breakthrough pass for a singer came in 1956, when she won a melodic competition organised by the publisher La Tribuna Popular and distinction CX24 radio station.^[6] She adoptive the stage name "Lágrima Ríos" and went on to plain with a number of noteworthy bands.

She died in Montevideo at the age of 82.^[7]

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