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Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-02:05

With more than

ten million albums

sold, hits like

Amores

,

Yo no soy esa,

Yo confesso

or

Una Estrella en mi Jardín

swept Europe, Latin America, the USA and

even Japan

in the 70s and 80s. Currently,

they are returning to heard,

which makes

Mari Trini

one of the most outstanding singer-songwriters inside and outside our borders. Despite this, her existence was no

bed of roses

for a woman ahead of her time, who

paid dearly for her rebellion and authenticity.

He was born on July 12, 1947 into

an aristocratic family from Murcia;

His father, Gonzalo Pérez Miravete, a descendant of the sculptor Francisco Salzillo, was

the grandson of the Marquises

of Peñacerrada, and his mother, Maria Mille,

Duchess of la Torre

. The firstborn of four siblings, her childhood was marked by a

serious kidney disease

, which kept her in bed from the ages of 6 to 14. "I went to bed a girl and woke up a woman," she would confess.

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A drama that

marked his vocation,

since his godmother, Trinidad, gave him a guitar, thanks to which he began to

write his first poems

and set them to music. At the age of 17, he moved with his family to

Madrid

, where despite the opposition of his mother, with whom he had a difficult relationship, he began to

perform at the Nika pub,

on Cartagena Street. It was owned by Nicholas Ray, the famous filmmaker who directed

Rebel Without a Cause

with James Dean, and he convinced her to

go to London

, in the midst of

Beatlemania

. But pop was not her thing and she preferred

to emigrate to the bohemian and existentialist Paris

of the mid-60s, where she enrolled in

Philosophy and Letters at the Sorbonne,

studies that she abandoned for song. It was a time when

Jacques Brel

triumphed with his dramatic

Ne me quitte pas

, which became a classic in Mari Trini's repertoire.

In the early 70s

she returned to late-Franco Spain

, where the message of her songs

resonated with the public,

especially women. If Mari Trini had been born 30 years after her, she would have gone down in posterity, in addition to her music, as an

icon of feminism and LGTBI rights.

His romantic partner for more than 40 years was

a woman, Claudette Lanza,

a French woman who

abandoned her husband and son

for the singer, although in the public eye she appeared

as her representative,

since this relationship was always kept private.

"My privacy is mine,"

said the singer.

Furthermore, her personality and image clashed with the current feminine ideal:

she always wore long pants and skirts,

she smoked Gauloises, very strong black French tobacco, and she had a license to

drive Formula 1,

her passion. She was the first woman to appear on Spanish television in

jeans

and singing "I am not that one that you imagine, a calm and simple lady, who always forgives and never abandons..." considered one of the

first feminist anthems,

which before the The prevailing machismo earned him cruel nicknames such as

"tomboy" or "peg leg."

They said she was missing a leg, that's why she wore long skirts, until she got fed up and in 1984

she posed on the cover of

Interviú

with a blouse that showed off her breasts and aired out her legs, quite well by the way. turned.

The singer, in the 70s.GTRES

The boom of singer-songwriters in the transition led to the

overwhelming success of Mari Trini

in the 70s and mid-80s, so much so that her album

Amores

was the second most successful after

Mediterranean

by Serrat. But from there

its decline began

, as Movida hit hard and record companies

preferred Alaska or Nacha Pop.

She returned in 2001, the year in which she recorded an album with the

bolero trio Los Panchos,

to which the singer contributed her money and royalties, but

ended up being scammed by her partner,

with whom she had a

long lawsuit in court

although she could not get your money back. It was her last album, because shortly after

she was diagnosed with cancer

and in her last years she returned to her

native Murcia

where she was offered to live in an urbanization in exchange for using her name to promote it. .

He died on April 6, 2009 at the age of 61

without being able to say goodbye to the public

at a concert, as was his dream.

A sad end

for a valuable artist who, 15 years after her death, sees her music recognized, because, as the poem that Gloria Fuertes wrote to her says, "When she sings, lovers cry, lovers love, the verses light up, the prose goes out."