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Maria Bonita

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Acuerdate de Acapulco
De aquellas noche
Maria bonita, Maria del alma

Acuerdate que en la playa
Con tus manitas las estrellitas
Las enjuagabas

Tu cuerpo del mar juguete
Nave al garete
Venían las olas
Lo columpiaban

Y mientras yo te miraba
Lo digo con sentimiento
Mi pensamiento
Me traicionaba

Te dije muchas palabras de esas bonitas
Con que se arrullan los corazones

Pidiendo que me quisieras
Que convirtieras en realidades
Mis ilusiones

La luna que nos miraba
Ya hacía ratito
Se hizo un poquito desentendida

Y cuando la vi escondida
Me arrodille para besarte
Y así entregarte
Toda mi vida

Amores habras tenido muchos amores
Maria bonita, María del alma

Pero ninguno tan bueno
Ni tan honrado
Como el que hiciste
Que en mi brotara

Lo traigo lleno de flores
Como una ofrenda
Para deajarlo
Bajo tus plantas

Recibelo emocionada
Y juralo que no mientes
Porque te sientes
Idolatrada

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Composer(s)

Agustin Lara
One of Mexico's seminal songwriters during the pre-war era, Agustin Lara wrote favorites including Granada, Solamente Una Vez, Maria Bonita, Farolito, and Palabras de Mujer. Lara excelled in a variety of song styles -- ranchera, bolero, tropical songs, even the occasional tango -- and brought a cosmopolitan flair to the Old West while enervating many early Mexican films with his rich music. Born in 1897 in Mexico City (though he would often place Veracruz as his birthplace), Lara took piano lessons and ended up playing in a bordello until his father sent him to military school. He was soon back in the music world however, playing piano around Mexico City and, by 1928, having his compositions recorded. ("Imposible" was the first, by Adelaido Castelleda's orchestra.) He wrote most of his legendary songs between 1930 and 1939, while touring around South America and performing often on national radio. He also began composing for film, and contributed much to a golden era of Mexican film (basically from the mid-'30s to the late '40s) that roughly paralleled America's. During the '50s and early '60s, Lara cemented his international star status by touring Europe to wide acclaim. Though his popularity diminished in the '60s, he stepped back into the limelight several times before his death from a heart attack in 1970. Dozens of artists have performed Lara's songs, including Xavier Cugat, Desi Arnaz, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Lola Beltran, and Celia Cruz.
-- John Bush, All Music Guide

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Performer(s)

Agustin Lara
One of Mexico's seminal songwriters during the pre-war era, Agustin Lara wrote favorites including Granada, Solamente Una Vez, Maria Bonita, Farolito, and Palabras de Mujer. Lara excelled in a variety of song styles -- ranchera, bolero, tropical songs, even the occasional tango -- and brought a cosmopolitan flair to the Old West while enervating many early Mexican films with his rich music. Born in 1897 in Mexico City (though he would often place Veracruz as his birthplace), Lara took piano lessons and ended up playing in a bordello until his father sent him to military school. He was soon back in the music world however, playing piano around Mexico City and, by 1928, having his compositions recorded. ("Imposible" was the first, by Adelaido Castelleda's orchestra.) He wrote most of his legendary songs between 1930 and 1939, while touring around South America and performing often on national radio. He also began composing for film, and contributed much to a golden era of Mexican film (basically from the mid-'30s to the late '40s) that roughly paralleled America's. During the '50s and early '60s, Lara cemented his international star status by touring Europe to wide acclaim. Though his popularity diminished in the '60s, he stepped back into the limelight several times before his death from a heart attack in 1970. Dozens of artists have performed Lara's songs, including Xavier Cugat, Desi Arnaz, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Lola Beltran, and Celia Cruz.
-- John Bush, All Music Guide

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Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943 in Madrid) is the best-selling Spanish singer of all time, having sold over 250 million records in different languages and released 77 records. While Iglesias rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as a performer of romantic ballads and as an iconically suave Latin gentleman, his success has continued as he crossed musical and linguistic barriers. Thus far, he has performed approximately 5,000 concerts and recorded albums in fourteen different languages.

If not for a car accident, on 22nd September 1963, he may have never had a music career: "I had a car accident, very, very strange car accident," remembers Iglesias. I lost control of the car and rolled it, resulting in what they call paraparexia, which is not a paraplegic. It's a compression in the cord, in the sense of the neck … my spinal cord, and I was very, very ill for three years." Doctors thought the young man would never walk again. But slowly, he started to recover. And to increase dexterity in his hands, he began to play the guitar. Once he recovered, he resumed his studies and he travelled to England to study English, first in Ramsgate and then at Bell Educational Trust's Language School in Cambridge.

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Pedro Vargas
Pedro Vargas (April 29, 1904 - October 30, 1989) was one of the most famous singers of 20th-century in Mexico.

A native of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Vargas was a classically-trained tenor who originally sang opera but gained fame with his renditions of popular songs. He made many musical guest appearances in films from 1936 onward, but also had more substantial acting roles in a few pictures, achieving over 70 screen credits in total.

In 1942, Vargas performed at the White House for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of many honors he received during his long career. He also performed in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Vargas died in Mexico City, Mexico at age 85.

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Trio Los Panchos

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