Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón Lara … Read Full Bio ↴Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón Lara y Aguirre del Pino (30 October 1897 – 6 November 1970) was a famous Mexican composer who is also considered a musical poet. Beter known as Agustín Lara, he was born in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico. Later, the Lara family had to move again to the capital, establishing their house in the borough of Coyoacán. After their mother died, Agustín and his siblings lived in a hospice run by her older sister, Refugio Aguirre del Pino. It was there that he had his first contact with music.

Lara's first musical composition was "Marucha," written in honour of one of his first loves. In 1927 he already was working in cabarets. He subsequently moved to Puebla, but returned to the capital in 1929. That same year he started working for the tenor Juan Arvizu as composer and accompanist. In September 1930, he began a successful radio career. At the same time he acted and composed songs for such films as Santa (1931).

In 1933 Lara's first tour in Cuba was a failure because of political turmoil on the island. Later, more successful tours in South America, as well as such new compositions as "Solamente Una Vez" (composed in Buenos Aires and dedicated to José Mujica), "Veracruz", "Tropicana", and "Pecadora" increased his fame. Lara was also known for his love affairs with various women, among them María Félix, who became one of his many wives, and to whom he dedicated his most famous compositions, such as "María Bonita", "Aquel Amor" and "Noche de Ronda." He wrote more than 700 songs.

By the beginning of the 1940s, Lara was well-known in Spain. In 1965, the Spanish Caudillo Francisco Franco gave him a beautiful house in Granada in appreciation of his songs with Spanish themes, such as "Toledo", "Granada", "Seville", and "Madrid". He received additional honors and decorations from around the world.

It is said that Lara never learned musical notation.

In 1968 Lara's health began to decline rapidly; an accident that fractured his pelvis further aggravated his condition. On November 6, 1970, the musician-poet died. He was buried in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres of the Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City.

Nowadays, in the port of Veracruz, there is a nostalgic place for El Flaco de Oro’s followers: La Casita Blanca ("The Little White House"). From this museum and bohemian corner, the ocean waves can be heard, and the romantic sense of the Veracruzans is evident. Younger and older generations express their emotion while singing "Piensa en mí" ("Think about me") in homage to one who always loved his country.

Agustín Lara sang for his cousin Edward Lara's wedding to Graciela Chabolla Garcia (who then became Graciela Chabolla de Lara) in Mexico City in 1964.

He is survived and celebrated by his extensive family. The Lara family and its musical roots now extend from southern and central Mexico to California. (His cousin Francisco Lara (+), Trinidad Lara (+) nephew Armando Lara Sr,(Coroba Veracruz) (+) niece Arminda Paula Lara DeHoyos (Laredo TX), Adolfo Lara (+), Gelacio Lara (+), Roberto Lara, Herminia Lara, Zenon Lara, Socorro Lara, Antonio Lara, Lesvia Lara, Victor Lara( (NL MEX) Manuel Lara, Edward Lara, Rocio Lara, Eduardo Alejandro Lara, Gerardo Lara) and Wisconsin (Edward Manuel Lara and his wife Mary Lou Lara) in the U.S.

a tus pies
Agustín Lara Lyrics

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Es tu pie menudito
Como un alfiletero
En cuya felpa rosa
Prendí mi amor entero

Y tu pie chiquitito
Tiene tal distinción
Que por eso yo quiero

Dejar a tus pies mi corazón

Alfombra de rosas, quisiera poner a tus plantas
Regar tu sendero florido de cosas muy santas
Amarte con fervor hasta la muerte
Ser un príncipe azul
Para quererte

Poner en tus noches divinas regueros de estrellas
Buscar en la paz de mi huerto las rosas más bellas
Y como un pecador arrepentido
Implorar a tus pies
Perdón y olvido

Buscar en la paz de mi huerto las rosas más bellas
Poner en tus noches divinas regueros de estrellas
Y como un pecador arrepentido

Implorar a tus pies
Perdón y olvido

Overall Meaning

In Agustín Lara's beautiful love song "A Tus Pies," the singer is expressing his deep devotion to his lover by worshipping her feet. He describes her small, delicate feet as being like a pincushion, into which he has pinned all of his love. He admires the elegance and grace of her tiny feet so much that he wishes to lay his heart at her feet as a symbol of his love and submission to her. The singer longs to be the perfect love partner for his beloved, promising to cover her path with roses and fill her nights with stars, and even to be a prince charming if she would have him. He wants to offer her the most beautiful roses from his garden, and in return, he asks for her forgiveness and absolution at his feet.

Line by Line Meaning

Es tu pie menudito
Your petite foot is like a pincushion

Como un alfiletero
With a pink velvet that captured my entire love

En cuya felpa rosa
And your tiny foot has such distinction

Prendí mi amor entero
That's why I want to leave my heart at your feet

Y tu pie chiquitito
Your small foot has such distinction

Tiene tal distinción
That's why I want to leave my heart at your feet

Que por eso yo quiero
A carpet of roses, I want to put at your feet

Dejar a tus pies mi corazón
To water your path with sacred things

Alfombra de rosas, quisiera poner a tus plantas
To love you fiercely until death

Regar tu sendero florido de cosas muy santas
To be a prince charming and love you

Amarte con fervor hasta la muerte
To put paths of stars in your divine nights

Ser un príncipe azul
To search for the most beautiful roses in my garden

Para quererte
To repent like a sinner

Buscar en la paz de mi huerto las rosas más bellas
To implore your feet for forgiveness and forgetfulness

Y como un pecador arrepentido
To search for the most beautiful roses in my garden

Implorar a tus pies
To put paths of stars in your divine nights

Perdón y olvido
To repent like a sinner

Writer(s): Agustin Lara

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@AbrahamPureco

5y↑13

Letra:
Es tu pie menudito, como un alfiletero
en cuya felpa rosa prendí mi amor entero.
Y tú pie chiquitito, tiene tal distinción
que por eso yo quiero dejar a tus pies mi corazón.

Alfombra de rosas, quisiera pone a tus plantas.
Regar tu sendero florido de cosas muy santas .
Amarte con fervor hasta la muerte,
Ser un príncipe azul, para quererte

Poner en tus noches divinas regueros de estrellas.
Buscar en la paz de mi huerto, las rosas más bellas.
Y como un pecador arrepentido,
implorar a tus pies perdón y olvido.

Buscar en la paz de mi huerto las rosas más bellas .
Poner en tus noches divinas, regueros de estrellas .
Y como un pecador arrepentido,
implorar a tus pies, perdón y olvido

All comments from YouTube:

@rodolfocruz9917

51w

Hola buenos días me gusta escuchar musica soy muy romantica sin amor pero estoy enamorada del amor porque la música es un bálsamo para mí ser feliz en la vida con melodías hermosas 😊