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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Lateinamerika - Erschienen bei MCM Mexico - WMI am 15.01.2002
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Las Canciones de Toña La Negra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Digital Enterprises am 15.04.1945
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Sabor Afro-Latino - Toña La Negra Expresión Femenina
Lateinamerika - Erschienen bei Leyendas am 07.07.2023
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Oración Negra
World Music - Erschienen bei Amor Indiano am 17.06.2022
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Caleidoscopio Musical
Bolero - Erschienen bei RCA Records Label am 11.01.2012
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Toña la Negra
Bolero - Erschienen bei Vintage 2015 am 05.04.2015
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Vereda Tropical (Remastered)
Pop - Erschienen bei Conarte Grabaciones am 03.09.2020
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Toña la Negra
Lateinamerika - Erschienen bei Piros - Artyvoz am 21.04.2015
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La Hora Intima
Agustin Lara, Tona La Negra, Pedro Vargas
World Music - Erschienen bei Vintage Masters Inc. am 01.12.2011
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Imprescindibles
Bolero - Erschienen bei E. N Digital am 22.09.2020
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Noche Criolla
Lateinamerika - Erschienen bei WM Mexico am 11.11.1992
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Arráncame la vida (Remastered)
Pop - Erschienen bei Conarte Grabaciones am 03.09.2020
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La Sensación Jarocha Canta a Lara y Hernández
Klassik - Erschienen bei MCM am 06.10.2015
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Toña La Negra
World Music - Erschienen bei Soundbox am 01.01.2018
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Con El Alma En Los Labios
World Music - Erschienen bei TLN Records am 14.09.2023
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