She started her career as an actress, working in the theatre and in some of the most famous Spanish movies from the 1940 decade.
During the 1950s, she started singing professionaly, eventually abandoning her career as an actress in the 1960s. Since then, she has recorded more than 35 albums.
As a singer, she is specialized in traditional Spanish and Latin American music: bolero, copla, ballad, ronda, vals, and folk music (Peruvian, Argentinian, Mexican, and Venezuelan). Her voice tone is clear and slightly low, and she has an extremely proper Spanish pronunciation. She typically sings with the only company of guitars, requintos, and drums.
She singed for close to 30 years with the same group, Los Gemelos, formed by two twin brothers, Santiago López Hernández and Julián López Hernández, until the death of Santiago in the early 1990s.
Tu Me Acostumbraste
Maria Dolores Pradera Lyrics
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a todas esas cosas
y tú me ensañaste
que son maravillosas
Sutil llegaste a mí como la tentación
llenando de ansiedad
mi corazón
Y yo no concevía
como se quería
en tu mundo raro
y por ti aprendí
Ahora me pregunto
al ver que me olvidaste
por qué no me enseñaste?
como se vive
sin ti
The lyrics to María Dolores Pradera's song Tu Me Acostumbraste are about a person lamenting the loss of their significant other who had introduced them to a world of wonder and love but has now left them. The song starts off by acknowledging how the other person had become a big part of their life and how they had been taught to appreciate the beauty in everything. The person is grateful for this and acknowledges that the other person came into their life subtly like a temptation and had filled them with excitement and anxiety.
However, the song then takes a sad turn as the person realizes that they had become so accustomed to the other person's love and their world that they don't know how to move on without them. They question how they can now live without the other person and wonder why they were never taught how to live without them. The song ends on a sad note, with the person lamenting the fact that they are now alone and missing the one who taught them how to love.
The lyrics convey a sense of loss, longing, and regret for not being able to hold onto the love that they had once found. They also touch on the importance of having someone who can guide us through life and teach us new things about ourselves and the world around us.
Line by Line Meaning
Tú me acostumbraste
You got me accustomed
a todas esas cosas
to all of those things
y tú me ensañaste
and you taught me
que son maravillosas
that they are marvelous
Sutil llegaste a mí como la tentación
You came to me subtly like temptation
llenando de ansiedad mi corazón
filling my heart with anxiety
Y yo no concevía
I couldn't conceive
como se quería
how to love
en tu mundo raro
in your strange world
y por ti aprendí
and because of you, I learned
Ahora me pregunto
Now I wonder
al ver que me olvidaste
as I see that you forgot me
por qué no me enseñaste?
why didn't you teach me?
como se vive sin ti
how to live without you
Writer(s): Frank Dominguez
Contributed by Madelyn R. Suggest a correction in the comments below.