In her native town of Rosario, Sinaloa, Beltrán completed her secretarial studies while she participated in many singing competitions. She then moved to Mexico City where she was discovered while working at the radio station XEW, and never went back to Rosario again.
She married Alfredo Leal, a matador and film actor, and with him had two children: María Elena Leal, who is also a singer, and José Leal. She entered the world of film in 1954 starring in El tesoro de la muerte. After participating in dozens of films, most of them musicals, she obtained a role in the telenovela Mi rival with Saby Kamalich. In 1976 and 1984 she hosted the musical shows Noches tapatías and El estudio de Lola Beltrán respectively.
Beltrán is still considered with Lucha Reyes the most successful ranchera-music singer of all time. She was the first ranchera singer to perform at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She also performed at the Olympia music hall in Paris, the Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow and the Conservatory of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the former Soviet Union.
Soon after recording Disco del Siglo with Lucha Villa and Amalia Mendoza "La Tariácuri" (produced by Juan Gabriel) she died of a massive pulmonary embolism at the Ángeles hospital of Mexico City.
Ella
Lola Beltrán Lyrics
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Me cansé de decirle
Que yo sin ella
De pena muero.
Ya no quiso escucharme
Si sus labios se abrieron
Fue pa'decirme
Ya no te quiero
Se perdía en un abismo
Profundo y negro
Como mi suerte
Quise hayar el olvido
Al estilo Jalisco
Pero aquellos mariachis
Y aquél tequila
Me hicieron llorar.
The lyrics of Lola Beltrán's song "Ella" reveal the pain and desperation of a man who has been rejected by the woman he loves. The first two lines express his weariness in begging and pleading with her to stay, which is highlighted by the repetition of "me cansé." He confesses that "without her, he dies from sorrow." However, his pleas fall on deaf ears as "she no longer wants to hear him," and when she finally opens her mouth it is just to say that she no longer loves him. The man's feelings are compared to a "deep and dark abyss," indicating the deep sadness he feels. He decides to try and forget her by drowning his sorrows in tequila, but instead finds himself crying at the sound of mariachis.
Line by Line Meaning
Me cansé de rogarle
I grew tired of begging her
Me cansé de decirle
I grew tired of telling her
Que yo sin ella
That without her
De pena muero.
I die from sadness.
Ya no quiso escucharme
She no longer wanted to listen to me
Si sus labios se abrieron
If her lips opened
Fue pa'decirme
It was to tell me
Ya no te quiero
I no longer love you
Yo sentía que mi vida
I felt that my life
Se perdía en un abismo
Was lost in an abyss
Profundo y negro
Deep and dark
Como mi suerte
Like my luck
Quise hayar el olvido
I tried to find forgetfulness
Al estilo Jalisco
In the Jalisco style
Pero aquellos mariachis
But those mariachis
Y aquél tequila
And that tequila
Me hicieron llorar.
Made me cry.
Writer(s): Domingo Casanova
Contributed by Riley G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
María teresa Kibiak
Que bonito canta la Gran Lola Beltrán, es un deleite escuchar esta canción con su voz eternamente presente, nos da ganas de llorar al oír está canción preciosa con el sentimiento que le da
María CB
Que interpretación.... lloré al recordar a mi papá, le gustaba mucho esta canción.... gracias por compartir❤
Alma lilia Rodriguez hernandex
De lo mejor grande lola cantarme desde el cielo reyna