She sang in public for the first time in a radio contest at the age of ten. She didn't win that year, but won the next year. Her early singing caught the attention of a movie producer who introduced her to the cinema audiences as "Ana Belen" in the movie "Zampo y Yo" when she was thirteen.
Ana didn't want to become a child-star and focused on her studying. It wasn't until she finished drama school that she went back performing in public, being theater her prefered way to do so. She did small incursions in movies till she was offered major parts.
In 1973 she was cast opposite Víctor Manuel in Morbo and he became her husband as well as the composer of the songs included in her first album. In 1982 she released "Ana en Rio", an album with Brazilian music that included the song "Balance" and became an instant hit.
In 1986, took one more step and became one of the first female movie directors in Spain with the movie "Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento" which earned her the Gold Medal of Spanish Cinematographic Academy. That year concluded with another major success, a tour with Victor Manuel and many special guests of which they released a live album: "Mucho mas que dos". The success of this tour lead to a new one, "El Gusto es Nuestro" with Miguel Rios, Joan Manuel Serrat y Victor Manuel.
She releases several albums through the 90's that achieve great success like "Veneno para el Corazon" that included Spanish versions of Cole Porter songs among others, "Mirame" full of duets with the most important Spanish voices or "Lorquiana", a double CD with popular songs and poems of Federico García Lorca.
The new century finds her busy with filming and recording songs. Albums "Peces de Ciudad" or "Viva L'Italia" are released as she appears on stage plays and her name is on some of the most acclaimed films of the moment.
In 2006, she is currently touring with her husband Víctor Manuel across Spain with "Una Cancion me Trajo Aqui", a CD+DVD has been released of their very first performance in Segovia.She also has a new album in the works and a new movie pending.
Lady Laura
Ana Belén Lyrics
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Al cimbrear su cuerpo no le responde
Por eso casi siempre sale de noche
Y a veces busca apoyo sobre algún coche.
Tuvo un amor en guerra con milicianos
Un amor imposible pero tan tierno
Que sin quererlo un día perdió el gobierno
Lady Laura, Lady Laura...
Los amores se olvidan con la partida
Siempre llevo en la carne filosofía
Para que dé las cinco y alguna amiga
Virgen, fondona, triste y arrepentida.
Se le agrietan las carnes cuando recuerda
Aquella oveja negra que pretendiera
Huir de madrugada hacia otras tierras
Sin tener tan siquiera un papel en regla.
Como vivió murió siempre previniendo
Envolviendo sus joyas en un pañuelo
Con su mejor vestido, firme la espalda
Se llevó despacito a la funeraria.
Y ordenó: me preparan la mejor caja,
Sabía que en dos horas se moriría
Se metió en una tumba húmeda y fría
Que ella adornó por dentro con serpentinas.
The song Lady Laura by Ana Belén tells the story of a woman named Lady Laura who walks down Gran Vía, but her body does not respond correctly as she seems to be frail and weak. Therefore, she tends to go out at night and sometimes leans on a car for support. Lady Laura had a love affair that was impossible due to the war with the military. Despite its impossibility, their love was so tender that one day, the government lost control, and it all went down by the sad wall of a cemetery. Lady Laura remembers her past, and her body cracks under the pressure of thinking about the black sheep who wanted to escape to another land without permission.
The song tells the story of a woman who lived her life cautiously, always preparing for the worst. Lady Laura took preparedness to the extreme when she ordered the best casket and adorned the inside of her humid and cold grave with streamers. Lady Laura's life is a reminder to live life to the fullest without regrets, to love wholly and without reservation.
Line by Line Meaning
La verás caminando por la Gran Vía
You will see her walking on Gran Vía
Al cimbrear su cuerpo no le responde
Her body doesn't respond when she trembles
Por eso casi siempre sale de noche
That's why she almost always goes out at night
Y a veces busca apoyo sobre algún coche.
And sometimes she looks for support on a car.
Tuvo un amor en guerra con milicianos
She had a love in war with militiamen
Un amor imposible pero tan tierno
An impossible love but so tender
Que sin quererlo un día perdió el gobierno
That unintentionally one day lost the government
Junto a la triste tapia de un cementerio.
Next to the sad wall of a cemetery.
Lady Laura, Lady Laura...
Lady Laura, Lady Laura...
Los amores se olvidan con la partida
Loves are forgotten with departure
Siempre llevo en la carne filosofía
I always carry philosophy in my flesh
Para que dé las cinco y alguna amiga
So that it's five o'clock and some friend
Virgen, fondona, triste y arrepentida.
Virgin, round, sad and repentant.
Se le agrietan las carnes cuando recuerda
Her flesh cracks when she remembers
Aquella oveja negra que pretendiera
That black sheep that tried to
Huir de madrugada hacia otras tierras
Escape early in the morning to other lands
Sin tener tan siquiera un papel en regla.
Without even having a valid document.
Como vivió murió siempre previniendo
As she lived, she died always preparing
Envolviendo sus joyas en un pañuelo
Wrapping her jewelry in a handkerchief
Con su mejor vestido, firme la espalda
Wearing her best dress, her back straight
Se llevó despacito a la funeraria.
She took herself slowly to the funeral home.
Y ordenó: me preparan la mejor caja,
And she ordered: prepare the best coffin for me,
Sabía que en dos horas se moriría
She knew that she would die in two hours
Se metió en una tumba húmeda y fría
She went into a cold and damp tomb
Que ella adornó por dentro con serpentinas.
That she decorated inside with streamers.
Contributed by Daniel B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@ainhoitaa3893
Esta canción la escuche por primera vez en la cantina de la mili allá por el 75.y me encanto esa gran voz de Ana belén.
@maritab3568
No la conocìa.