Guzmán is the daughter of Mexican actress Silvia Pinal and Venezuelan-born Mexican rock and roll singer Enrique Guzmán. She is the half-sister of actresses Sylvia Pasquel and Viridiana Alatriste. Her niece Stephanie Salas is also a well known entertainer in Mexico.
After travelling with her mother's theatre troupe, Guzmán decided she wanted to focus on singing and recorded her début album Bye Mama in 1988, which yielded "La plaga", the first of many hits.
In 1990, Guzmán scored one of the biggest hits of her career, the song "Eternamente Bella" ("Eternally Beautiful"), which became a number one hit in Mexico and other Latin countries. The song is considered a classic by many Spanish rock fans.
In 1991 she released Flor de Papel. One of the album singles, "Hacer El Amor Con Otro", became a smash hit for Guzmán, not only in Latin America and México, but also in the U.S. The album was well received by critics and fans, and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Pop Album in 1992. The albums Libre and Enorme followed in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Her musical output in the late 1990s was often overshadowed by the many controversies she was involved in.
In 2002, Guzmán won her first Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album for Soy.
In 2006, she released Indeleble. The first single was Volverte a amar, which became one of her biggest hits in Mexico and hit the Top 10 in the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks, peaking number #6 and number #1 in Hot Latin Pop Airplay chart. The album (which reached the #1 spot in Mexico) has been certified double-platinum and won two awards at the Premios Oye! 2006 (Mexico's most important music awards), including Best Album of the Year and Pop Vocal Female. She was also nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Album Indeleble and Best Rock Song for "Volverte a amar".
Matame
Alejandra Guzmán Lyrics
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Que me explota el corazón
Mátame en tus brazos
Pero mátame de amor
Revuelves mi pelo, calientas mi cama
Y en medio de un beso te vas, te me escapas
Te escondes, te busco y cuando te encuentro
Arcángel, demonio, odio y amor
Violencia y ternura, placer y dolor
Me subes al cielo y luego me estrellas
Porque junto a ti todo es una fiesta
Mátame deespacio
Y todo es posible en tu compañia
De día es de noche, de noche es de día
Llorar de aleggría, reír de dolor
No hay nada imposible aquí en este amor
Mi angustia, mi calma, mi droga, mi alma
Me enfermas, me curas, mi loca locura
Jugando, sudando, tomados, serenos
Te tengo, te pierdo, el cielo, el infierno
Mátame despacio
Así nos amamos, así nos sufrimos
Y siempre me escapo, y siempre me encuentro
Porque esta locura la llevo tan dentro
Te vivo dormida, te sueño despierto
Mátame despacio
En tus brazos vivo, en tus brazos muero
De tus brazos huyo, a tus brazos vuelvo
Como el río al mar, como el aire al viento
Para explicarte como te quiero
The lyrics of Alejandra Guzmán's song "Matame" talk about a passionate and intense love between two individuals, where one is willing to be killed by the other, but in a slow and loving way. The first verse sets the tone for the rest of the song, where the singer asks her lover to kill her slowly because her heart is about to explode. She then asks him to kill her in his arms, but with love. This creates an image of a fiery love that is both destructive and fulfilling at the same time.
The rest of the song describes the roller coaster ride of emotions the singer goes through in the relationship with her lover. She talks about how he plays with her emotions and disappears after a kiss, only to come back later with more passion and intensity. She compares him to both an angel and a demon, and their relationship to both love and hate, violence and tenderness, pleasure, and pain. She says that everything is possible in their love, and there is no impossible situation when they are together. The singer also talks about how her lover is her drug, her addiction, and her crazy love. The song ends with her saying that she lives and dies in his arms, and even though she tries to run away, she always comes back to him because she loves him so much.
Line by Line Meaning
Mátame despacio
Kill me slowly
Que me explota el corazón
My heart is exploding
Mátame en tus brazos
Kill me in your arms
Pero mátame de amor
But kill me with love
Revuelves mi pelo, calientas mi cama
You mess up my hair, warm my bed
Y en medio de un beso te vas, te me escapas
And in the middle of a kiss you leave, you escape from me
Te escondes, te busco y cuando te encuentro
You hide, I look for you and when I find you
Qué cosas que inventas!, qué cosas que pasan!
What things you invent, what things happen!
Arcángel, demonio, odio y amor
Angel, demon, hate and love
Violencia y ternura, placer y dolor
Violence and tenderness, pleasure and pain
Me subes al cielo y luego me estrellas
You lift me up to the sky and then crash me down
Porque junto a ti todo es una fiesta
Because with you everything is a party
Y todo es posible en tu compañia
And everything is possible in your company
De día es de noche, de noche es de día
Day is night, night is day
Llorar de alegría, reír de dolor
Cry with happiness, laugh with pain
No hay nada imposible aquí en este amor
There is nothing impossible in this love
Mi angustia, mi calma, mi droga, mi alma
My anxiety, my calmness, my drug, my soul
Me enfermas, me curas, mi loca locura
You make me sick, you cure me, my crazy craziness
Jugando, sudando, tomados, serenos
Playing, sweating, drunk, sober
Te tengo, te pierdo, el cielo, el infierno
I have you, I lose you, heaven, hell
Así nos amamos, así nos sufrimos
That's how we love each other, that's how we suffer
Y siempre me escapo, y siempre me encuentro
And I always escape, and I always find myself
Porque esta locura la llevo tan dentro
Because this madness is inside me
Te vivo dormida, te sueño despierto
I live you asleep, I dream you awake
En tus brazos vivo, en tus brazos muero
I live in your arms, I die in your arms
De tus brazos huyo, a tus brazos vuelvo
I run away from your arms, I come back to your arms
Como el río al mar, como el aire al viento
Like the river to the sea, like the air to the wind
Para explicarte como te quiero
To explain how much I love you
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