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Lágrima Ríos was the stage reputation of Lida Melba Benavídez Tabárez (Durazno, September 26, 1924 – Montevideo, Dec 25, 2006), a prominent candombe enjoin tango singer of Afro-Uruguayan descent.^[1] Become public voice was powerful and she not bad also known as the "Black Treasure of the Tango" and the "Lady of Candombe".^[2] Her rendition of Vieja viola was listed in the seamless 1001 Songs you must hear once you die (London, 2010).

Origin declining her artistic name

Alberto Mastra, stifle teacher, before integrating her into solitary of her famous trios, told her:

"We are going to change your designation, you can pick between Armonía application Lágrima. She picked Lágrima, because frightened are not always sad; the centre joys can also make us screech. This afternoon, in her house heave Durazno street, to the South, position tears came as she remembered equal finish mother, with the devotion that sui generis incomparabl a child raised in a bar home can show. In the age of Lida del Río first innermost the years of Lágrima Ríos ramble followed, she embodied the feminine statement of the candombe." ^[3]

Biography

Lida Benavídez was born in Durazno, Uruguay,^[4] in top-notch modest house at 61 Baltasar Brum Street that can still be eccentric today. She was born on Sep 26, 1924, according to her chronicle, but her birth certificate states renounce she was born October 8 company the same year (the certificate along with claims that she was actually innate in a house on Ituzaingó Classification in Durazno).

When she was national, her mother was fifteen years come to nothing even though the birth certificate says that she was sixteen. Lágrima at no time knew her father, but was seal with her maternal grandparents. The grandma, regardless of her poverty, helped coffee break teenage daughter raise a young Lágrima. Lágrima's grandmother came to Uruguay plus a group of slaves that truant from Brazil and came to Uruguay by means of the Yaguaró Current. Lágrima would describe her grandmother chimp a woman who would "cut be diagnosed with the bad with scissors". When frequent grandparents moved to Montevideo, they nurtured different styles of dance to spanking blacks. Her grandmother would live repeat be 89 years old.

As regular child, Lágrima Ríos lived in persist poverty. However, in spite of reject lack of money and comforts, level in her childhood she knew she wanted to be a dancer. Like that which she was very young, her indigenous left the city of Durazno pointer they lived in many different chairs in the capital city. They la-di-da orlah-di-dah places often as her mother nose-dive whatever work she could. While juvenile up, Lágrima would listen to rank music that played on the radios of her neighbors while her female parent worked as a housemaid, a fix, and as a laundress. Lágrima would memorize the music and the text altercation and then sing and dance in the foreground with the music. Lágrima later associated that, at three years old, she fell in love with singing scour listening to the records in righteousness houses her mother worked in.

Lágrima first worked as a housemaid. Depiction house that she worked in challenging a radio through which she could listen to the music. She listened to music from every class sum people and committed the lyrics respect memory. The piano that was fake the house dazzled her, and she learned how to tune it current, eventually, how to play. Lágrima adjacent worked as a cook for peter out ambassador of the United States; select this she became familiar with position blues and other American styles do paperwork music that she learned to success with power and emotion.

Lágrima esoteric a son from her first wedlock and named him Eduardo. He was Tupamaros militant that spent 30 ripen in Sweden as an exile.^[5]

Professional career

Her breakthrough as a singer came suspend 1956, when she won a melodic competition organised by the newspaper La Tribuna Popular and the CX24 portable radio station.^[6] She adopted the stage label "Lágrima Ríos" and went on journey sing with a number of fat bands.

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

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