Mari Trini
Mari Trini, actually María Trinidad Pérez de Miravete Mille ( born July 12, 1947 Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain, † April 6, 2009, Murcia ), was a Spanish singer and songwriter. With over 10 million records sold, popular in Spanish-speaking South and Central America artist is one of the 15 most successful Spanish musicians. Mari Trini, whose melancholic voice often earned her comparisons with Édith Piaf and Juliette Greco, reached in Germany, especially in the early 1970s, sung in French interpretations of Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas and title of Rina Ketty world success J'attendrai a certain level of recognition.
Life
Soon after her birth, she moved with her parents in the capital Madrid. Due to a chronic kidney disease she was mostly bedridden from 7 to 14 years and associated with their disease corticoid treatment left a lasting mark on her left side of the face. In those years, she read a lot, learned the guitar and dreamed of a singing career. Considered by their physician as incurable, they nevertheless threw himself into life. One night she sang in the Madrid Club Nikka 's director Nicholas Ray ( ... for they know not what they do ). This made her a roll of film in views and sent them to London to study acting. There was, among others, Peter Ustinov their teachers, they work for a year for a radio program and met stars like Roman Polanski, Paul McCartney and Marlene Dietrich.
The hoped-for role did not come, however, and in 1963 she moved to Paris. There, she caught the acquaintance with the music of Jacques Brel and Gilbert Becaud and other protagonists of French music of that era. Soon she called herself nurmehr " Marie Trini " and 1965 was published with Bonne chance, mon amour her first title. Altogether she published in France twelve titles on three extended play singles for the record label EMI. With the self- written main title of their second EP Guitarra published in 1966, she is also in a cameo appearance in the 1967 film produced La nuit infidèle to see.
After her father's death in 1967, she returned to Spain. This was the time of the great European protest movement and its often acting out of personal freedom songs were so in Franco's Spain with open ears. Mari Trini still published in 1967 under the RCA label four more singles. In 1969 their first self-titled LP, but received only limited attention. With his following albums Amores and Escúchame could short the grown singer with the bright blue eyes, which occurred mostly in jeans, but establish and land first hits.
In the 1980s, her style came ever closer to pop with more complex musical arrangements. They made efforts to lighten their existential image. In 1984, she agreed to the publication of sensual shots in the magazine Interviu. Even otherwise, she presented herself feminine and more colorful than before. However, Mari Trini disappeared more and more from the field to the wider public
In 2001 she published a comeback attempt in which they wanted to make CD Mari Trini con Los Panchos with the three - man group Los Panchos their greatest hits with new arrangements a new audience.
Overall, Mari Trini published 25 albums. In 2005 she was sold by the Association Sociedad General de Autores y Editores 10 million records awarded a diamond record. On International Women's Day in March 2008, she gave the regional government of Murcia with the Premio Lucha por la Igualdad, the "fight for equality " award. The eulogy paid tribute to their commitment to women's issues and the emancipation of their songs.
After her final years were marred by illness again - in 2004 one of her kidneys was removed - she passed away on April 6, 2009 in a hospital in Murcia at the age of 61 years, probably due to cancer. She left her partner Claudette Lanza, with which she was associated for over forty years, her mother María Campos Mille, her siblings Paco Luis, Gonzalo and Myriam and their political allies María Cristina Van Meurs, Mayi Etcheverry and Augusto Trujillo.