Baptized as Felipe Antonio Pirela Moron, was the eighth one of the children… Read Full Bio ↴Baptized as Felipe Antonio Pirela Moron, was the eighth one of the children of the marriage conformed by Felipe Pirela Monsalve who was bricklayer and Lucia Moron de Pirela, who was housewife and merchant, besides fan to the artistic expressions. From boy, the future interpreter already showed interest in the song being supported by its so much mother in the musical learning, as in its first actions in radio. In fact, at the age of 13 of age, next to two of his brothers and neighbors of the neighborhood marabino The Empedrao, conforms the group The Happy Boys that touched in diverse localities of Maracaibo boleros fashionable positions by interpreters such as the Alfredo Sadel and the Chilean Lucho Gatica.

In 1957 he works in the radial spaces of a radio station marabina and he enters in a space of fans in a television show that then he transmitted the televisora Radio Caracas Television, obtaining the third place. The fact that the businesses televisoras Venezuelan even to lack video recording teams, he impeded that his first actions remained registered for the posterity. To the following year, is one of the first artists that acted in the first one televisora regional Venezuelan, the zuliana Waves of the Lago TV of ephemeral existence. It is presented in a space of fans with the orchestra of the musician and Venezuelan composer Juanito Arteta and its action is worth the to be hired as part of the artistic team of the televisora and of the radio station linked to this. He returns to Caracas, in July of 1958 and acts in nightspots, besides the issuing Radio Caracas Radio. Fortunately, these radial incursions yes were so much engravings by the radial radio station, as by fans. Said recordings would see the public light in the year 2006.

Upon returning to Maracaibo, is hired for the orchestra The Pennies, with which is initiated like the professional. Nevertheless, its traffic by this orchestra did not have greater importance recording barely two songs in the engraved only album with this group in 1960, titled Carnival with The Pennies. It is understood that did not have many opportunities in that group, since was one more than the five singers of that orchestra and that complicated its possibilities of to be kept in mind.
Felipe was recognized as the "Bolero Voice" of the famed Orchestra Billo's Caracas Boys, where other singers like El Puma got the opportunity to go on their own as independent singers. Sadly, Felipe was killed in Puerto Rico in what it was considered a Drug Involved Crime.

No Me Quieras Tanto
Felipe Pirela Lyrics

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Yo siento en el alma
Tener que decirte
Que mi amor se extingue como una pavesa
Y poquito a poco se queda sin luz

Yo se que te mueres
Cual pálido cirio
Y se que me quieres, que soy tu delirio

Y que en esta vida he sido tu cruz

Ay amor ya no me quieras tanto
Ay amor no sufras mas por mi
Si no mas puedo causarte llanto
Ay amor olvidate de mi

Me da pena que sigas sufriendo tu amor desesperado
Yo quisiera que tu te encontraras de nuevo otro querer

Otro ser que te brinde la dicha que yo no te he brindado
Y poder alejarme de ti para nunca mas volver

Ay amor ya no me quieras tanto
Ay amor no sufras mas por mi
Si no mas puedo causarte llanto
Ay amor olvidate de mi

Me da pena que sigas sufriendo tu amor desesperado
Yo quisiera que tu te encontraras de nuevo otro querer

Otro ser que te brinde la dicha que yo no te he brindado
Y poder alejarme de ti para nunca mas volver

Ay amor ya no me quieras tanto
Ay amor no sufras mas por mi

Si no mas puedo causarte llanto
Ay amor olvidate de mi

Overall Meaning

The song "No Me Quieras Tanto" by Felipe Pirela is a poignant and emotional plea from the singer to his lover to let him go. The song portrays the sadness and turmoil that he experiences knowing that his love for her is fading away. He compares his love to "pavesa" which means embers in Spanish, which represent the fading and extinguishing of his love. He tells her that he understands her pain and how much she loves him, but it is time to let go as his heart cannot take the pressure of her love anymore.

The singer acknowledges that he has been her burden and her suffering in life. He feels sorry for her and wishes that she finds happiness with someone else. Through the song, he repeatedly urges her to forget him, to move on, and to release herself from the agony of loving someone who cannot love her back. He genuinely wants her to find someone who can give her the joy and satisfaction that he was unable to offer.

The song showcases the power of love, its depth, and its complexities. The lyrics are heart-wrenching and honest, and the music is soulful and melodic. This song is a beautiful reminder that sometimes the greatest act of love is to let go.

Line by Line Meaning

Yo siento en el alma
I feel in my soul

Tener que decirte
To have to tell you

Que mi amor se extingue como una pavesa
That my love is extinguishing like a dying ember

Y poquito a poco se queda sin luz
And little by little, it's losing its light

Yo se que te mueres
I know that you're dying

Cual pálido cirio
Like a pale candle

Y se que me quieres, que soy tu delirio
And I know that you love me, that I'm your obsession

Y que en esta vida he sido tu cruz
And in this life, I've been your burden

Ay amor ya no me quieras tanto
Oh love, don't love me so much anymore

Ay amor no sufras mas por mi
Oh love, don't suffer for me anymore

Si no mas puedo causarte llanto
If all I can do is make you cry