RIP - Cesaria Evora - Maria Elena [Spanish &English lyrics]

RIP CESARIA EVORA - 27.08.1941 - 17.12.2011

"MARIA ELENA" is a 1932 popular song written by Lorenzo Barcelata (Spanish words and music). It was published by Peer International Corporation of Mexico. The English words by Bob Russell.
The song was dedicated to María Elena, the wife of Mexican President Emilio Portes Gil.
An instrumental version of the song was used for the background theme of the film Bordertown, starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis, in 1935. The next year the words and music were used in the Mexican film María Elena.
Lawrence Welk later introduced the tune in the United States on his radio program, then in 1941 on the Okeh Records label.
The song was a hit for the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra with Bob Eberly doing the vocals. The recording was made on March 19, 1941 by Decca Records as catalog number 3698. The flip side was "Green Eyes." The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on May 16, 1941 and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1 on June 14, 1941. Since "Green Eyes" was also a #1 hit, this was a major double-sided hit recording. In the same year the Wayne King Orchestra also had a #2 hit with "Maria Elena".
An instrumental version was recorded in 1958 and released in the United States in 1962 by Natalico and Antenor Lima, better known as Los Indios Tabajaras. This popular revival hit No.6 in the Billboard pop chart and No.3 on the Billboard easy listening chart in the USA in late 1963, as well as making No.5 on the UK singles chart at the same juncture.
Ry Cooder performed an instrumental version of this song on his 1972 album Boomer's Story. (from Wikipedia)

CESARIA ÉVORA (27 August 1941 - 17.12 2011) was a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."
Cesária Évora was born on 27 August 1941 in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde. When she was seven years old her father died, and at age ten she was placed in an orphanage as her mother could not raise all six childern. Aged 16, she was persuaded by a friend to sing in a sailors' tavern.
In the 1960s, she started singing on Portuguese cruise ships stopping at Mindelo as well as on the local radio. It was only in 1985 when at the invitation of Cape Verdean singer Bana she went to perform in Portugal. In Lisbon she was discovered by the musician José da Silva and invited to record in Paris..
Évora's international success came only in 1988 with the release of her first album La Diva Aux Pieds Nus recorded in France.Her 1992 album Miss Perfumado sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.
Her 1995 album Cesária brought her broader international success and the first Grammy Award nomination. In 1997 she won KORA All African Music Awards in three categories: Best Artist of West Africa, Best Album and Merit of the Jury. In 2003 her album Voz d'Amor was awarded a Grammy in the World music category.
In 2010, Évora did a series of concerts, the last of which was in Lisbon on 8 May. Two days later, after a heart attack, she was operated on at a hospital in Paris. On the morning of 11 May she was taken off artificial pulmonary ventilation, and on 16 May she was discharged from the intensive care unit and transported to a clinic for further treatment. In late September 2011, Évora's agent announced she was ending her career due to poor health
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On 17 December 2011, aged 70, Cesária Évora died in São Vicente, Cape Verde from cardiorespiratory insufficiency and hypertension. (from Wikipedia)
For more about Cesaria Evora's biography, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesária_Évora

ARTWORK by Diego Rivera (1886-1957, prominent Mexican painter and muralist) - Portrait of Natasha Gelman, 1942-43.

Lyrics:

Tuyo es mi corazón
Oh sol de mi querer
Mujer de mi ilusión
Mi amor te consagré

Mi vida la embellece
Una esperanza azul
Mi vida tiene un cielo
Que le diste tú

Tuyo es mi corazón
Oh sol de mi querer
Tuyo es todo mi ser
Tuyo es, mujer

Ya todo el corazón
Te lo entregué
Eres mi fe
Eres mi Dios
Eres mi amor

English translation:

Yours is my heart
Oh sun of my love
My dream woman
My love consecrated you

My life embellishes
Blue Hope
My life has a sky
That you gave me

Yours is my heart
Oh sun of my love
Yours is my whole being
Yours is, woman

And the whole heart
I gave you
You are my faith
You are my God
You are my love

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[Maskedman46]

Nice picture...song and music...

[PedroZarateFeliu]

hermosa,la mejor version.grandiosa voz.