Lola Beltrán (born María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz, 1932-1996, was one of the gr… Read Full Bio ↴Lola Beltrán (born María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz, 1932-1996, was one of the greatest Mexican ranchera singers, nicknamed Lola la Grande ("Lola the Great").

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.

La noche de mi mal
Lola Beltrán Lyrics

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No quiero ni volver a oír tu nombre
No quiero ni saber a dónde vas
Así me lo dijiste aquella noche
Aquella negra noche de mi mal

Si yo te hubiera dicho no te vayas
Que triste me esperaba el porvenir
Si yo te hubiera dicho no, no me dejes

Mi propio corazón se iba a reír

Por eso fue que me viste tan tranquilo
Caminar serenamente bajo un cielo más que azul
Después ya ves, me aguante hasta donde pude
Termine llorando a mares donde no me vieras tú

Si yo te hubiera dicho no te vayas
Qué triste me esperaba el porvenir
Si yo te hubiera dicho no me dejes
Mi propio corazón se iba a reír

Por eso fue que me viste tan tranquilo
Caminar serenamente bajo un cielo más que azul
Después ya ves, me aguante hasta donde pude
Termine llorando a mares donde no me vieras tú

Si yo te hubiera dicho no te vayas
Qué triste me esperaba el porvenir

Si yo te hubiera dicho no me dejes
Mi propio corazón se iba a reír

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Lola Beltran's song "Mal De Amores" tells the story of a person who has been heartbroken by a lover who left them. The singer expresses their desire to no longer hear the lover's name or know where they are going. They recall the night the lover left and the sadness it caused them.

The singer acknowledges that if they had begged the lover to stay, they would have been left with a bleak future. They would have been left with a sense of betrayal and a broken heart. Thus, they put on a facade of calmness, walking peacefully under the blue sky, hiding their pain until they couldn't take it anymore, and burst out crying in a place where the lover could not see them.

The song beautifully portrays the emotions of a broken heart and the pain of losing someone. It posits that sometimes, holding on to someone who wants to leave can be worse than letting them go. It is a powerful message for anyone who has experienced heartbreak or lost love.

Line by Line Meaning

No quiero ni volver a oír tu nombre
I do not want to hear your name ever again

No quiero ni saber a dónde vas
I do not want to know where you go

Así me lo dijiste aquella noche
That's what you told me that night

Aquella negra noche de mi mal
That dark night of my pain

Si yo te hubiera dicho no te vayas
If I had told you not to go

Que triste me esperaba el porvenir
A sad future would have awaited me

Si yo te hubiera dicho no, no me dejes
If I had told you no, don't leave me

Mi propio corazón se iba a reír
My own heart would have laughed at me

Por eso fue que me viste tan tranquilo
That's why you saw me so calm

Caminar serenamente bajo un cielo más que azul
Walking calmly under a sky bluer than blue

Después ya ves, me aguante hasta donde pude
Afterwards, as you can see, I held on as much as I could

Termine llorando a mares donde no me vieras tú
I ended up crying heavily where you couldn't see me

Si yo te hubiera dicho no te vayas
If I had told you not to go

Qué triste me esperaba el porvenir
A sad future would have awaited me

Si yo te hubiera dicho no me dejes
If I had told you no, don't leave me