Tona La Negra
b. María Antonia del Carmen Peregrino, 1912, Veracruz, Mexico, d. November 1982, Mexico City, Mexico. Toña ‘La Negra’ is to the bolero what Billie Holiday is to the jazz ballad. Like the mambo, danzón, and other song types, the bolero originated in Cuba. The Mexico City film and music boom of the 40s and 50s drew many of the Cuba’s great artists across the Gulf with their music, however, and it was amid all this musical interchange that a young Mexican contralto came to reign supreme in the golden age of the bolero. Coming from an impoverished family, Toña never had any formal musical training, but instead got her start at the age of nine singing at family occasions. As a young woman she made her way to the capital in 1932, where she soon began a vital artistic partnership with Mexico’s great songwriter and singer, Agustín Lara. One account of their meeting tells how Lara sat transfixed upon hearing Toña for the first time as she sang the song ‘Enamorada’. Merely days later, he composed the trenchant ‘Lamento Jarocho’ to be recorded specifically by her as an homage to the people of her coastal hometown. The passage of years yielded other Lara tunes to be rendered into radio classics by Toña, such as ‘Oració’, ‘Noche Criolla’, ‘Caríbe’ and ‘Veracruz’. With her quiet way of articulating beauty and tragedy, she continues to be regarded as the greatest female interpreter of Lara’s music. Toña ‘La Negra’ died in 1982, but she remains a national musical icon, immortalized by a statue in the main plaza of Veracruz and the inclusion of her visage in the Mexican Postal Service’s 1995 ‘Legends of the Radio’ stamp series.
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Imágenes
Latin America - Released by MCM Mexico - WMI on 15 Jan 2002
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Las Canciones de Toña La Negra
Classical - Released by Universal Digital Enterprises on 15 Apr 1945
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Sabor Afro-Latino - Toña La Negra Expresión Femenina
Latin America - Released by Leyendas on 7 Jul 2023
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Caleidoscopio Musical
Bolero - Released by RCA Records Label on 11 Jan 2012
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Vereda Tropical (Remastered)
Pop - Released by Conarte Grabaciones on 3 Sep 2020
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Toña la Negra
Latin America - Released by Piros - Artyvoz on 21 Apr 2015
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La Hora Intima
Agustin Lara, Tona La Negra, Pedro Vargas
World - Released by Vintage Masters Inc. on 1 Dec 2011
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Imprescindibles
Bolero - Released by E. N Digital on 22 Sep 2020
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Noche Criolla
Latin America - Released by WM Mexico on 11 Nov 1992
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Arráncame la vida (Remastered)
Pop - Released by Conarte Grabaciones on 3 Sep 2020
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La Sensación Jarocha Canta a Lara y Hernández
Classical - Released by MCM on 6 Oct 2015
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