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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La Negra (Lanegra01)
Flamenco - Released by Casa Limon America, LLC on 5 Feb 2021
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La Sensación Jarocha (Remastered)
Latin America - Released by Master Tape Records on 6 Sep 2019
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Inmortales de Toña la Negra
Latin America - Released by WM Mexico on 1 Apr 2022
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Homenaje a Agustin Lara - Toña La Negra
Latin America - Released by WM Mexico on 1 Apr 2022
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Momentos Cumbres de Toña la Negra
Bolero - Released by Aquellas Canciones Records on 1 Apr 1980
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Lamento Cubano
Tona La Negra, Conjunto de Pablo Peregrino
Jazz - Released by Fresh Sound Records on 12 Dec 2001
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15 Éxitos de Toña La Negra
Bolero - Released by RCA Records Label on 29 Jul 2014
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Cancionera Nací (Remastered)
Classical - Released by Fonal Music on 2 Oct 2015
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RCA 100 Años De Musica
Bolero - Released by RCA Records Label on 7 Nov 2001
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La Sensación Jarocha
Bolero - Released by RCA Records Label on 11 Jan 2012
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La Coleccion Del Siglo
Bolero - Released by RCA Records Label on 14 Oct 1996
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Antología. . . Toña la Negra
Latin America - Released by MCM Mexico - WMI on 15 Oct 2002
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La Sensación Jarocha
Latin America - Released by MCM Mexico - WMI on 30 Apr 2002
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Angelitos Negros (Remastered)
Pop - Released by Conarte Grabaciones on 9 Sep 2020
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Recordando A
Bolero - Released by Pipila Records S.A. DE C.V. on 2 Sep 2022
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