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The song "La Llorona" is featured in the 2017 Disney-Pixar film Coco; it is performed by Alanna Ubach as Imelda Rivera and Antonio Sol in a guest appearance as Ernesto de la Cruz in the English version and Angelica Vale and Marco Antonio Solis in the Spanish version. In the film, Imelda sings the song during the sunrise concert as she attempts ...
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
Alejandro Sela, Lhasa's father, received his doctorate on literature of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and taught her of the legend of La Llorona. [1] This is the folktale of the crying woman, resembled the mythological wife of Quetzalcoatl who has lost her children. For Lhasa, La Llorona comes from the omen of conquerors.
She was discovered via a casting call by Jayro Bustamante, [3] [5] and acted in two of Bustamante's films, Ixcanul and La Llorona. [5] At the 2019 Venice Film Festival, she wore a typical Quetzaltenango costume. [8] In 2022, she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe by appearing in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever where she played Namor's mother. [9]
Lhasa de Sela (September 27, 1972 – January 1, 2010), also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-Canadian singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France. Her first album, La Llorona, went Platinum in Canada and brought Lhasa a Félix Award and a Juno Award.
The monstrous sentient house where Sir Andrés and Alebrije are held resembles the monster house that the two defeated in the Doll Island in Xochimilco, during the search for La Llorona. A puppet resembling Papa Pickles , a puppet brought to life by La Llorona's tears and defeated by Sir Andrés and Alebrije, appears as an announcer to the ...
"Historia de un Amor" (Spanish for "Love Story") is a song about a man's old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It was written after the death of his brother's wife. It is also part of the soundtrack of a 1956 Mexican film of the same name starring Libertad Lamarque. The song tells of a man's suffering after his love ...
The word coco is used in colloquial speech to refer to the human head in Spanish. [3] Coco also means " skull ". [ 4 ] The words cocuruto in Portuguese and cocorota in Spanish both means "the crown of the head" or "the highest place" [ 5 ] and with the same etymology in Galicia, crouca means "head", [ 6 ] from proto-Celtic *krowkā- , [ 7 ...