The singers became one of the most important partners in regional Mexican music with songs like “Si nos dejan”
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José Alfredo Jiménez and Lucha Villa allegedly had a short romance (Photos: INAH Media Library)
Lucha Villa< /b> She was one of the most important singers of the Mexican regional, but she also became a muse for many of her colleagues, including José Alfredo Jiménez.
Since Luz Elena Ruiz, better known as Lucha Villa, became one of the most famous performers of the palenques, she became one of the singers who most suitors she had.
Her voice, her unmistakable style and her beauty captivated thousands of people in Mexico, including José Alfredo Jiménez, with whom she had a strong friendship that could have reached something more.
At the beginning of his career, Lucha only performed songs by Ferrusquilla and José Alfredo Jiménez (Photo: Twitter/@AidaCuevas)
At the beginning of her career, Lucha dedicated herself to singing songs composed by different artists, mainly by the Son of the People, which led her to meet him in person.
The singers would not only have become friends from the beginning of their relationship, but thanks to the fact that they shared a passion for ranchera music, they also became one of the most important couplets< /b> of the time.
La Grandota de Camargo began to share the stage with José Alfredo in the early 1960s. Some of the songs they sang together wereSi nos dejan, El Siete Mares, When no one loves you, among others.
Lucha Villa and José Alfredo Jiménez became the best couple in the Mexican folklore, according to some music experts (Photo: screenshot/YouTube)
Due to the chemistry they had being together, the rumor began to spread that they would keep a secret affair, since he was married to Mary Medel, with whom he had four children and at that time she was one of his greatest muses.
However, it was an open secret that the also singer on many occasions looked for beautiful women to be inspired by them for his songs, and having Lucha as his main dumbbell singing was one of those chosen to be his motivation.
Jiménez would have written some of her greatest hits for her friend and colleague, among them La mediavuelta. At the time it was alleged that it was only a topic dedicated to the affection they shared as friends, but the children of both interpreters uncovered that possiblythere was a love relationshipbetween the two.
José Alfredo considered Lucha one of his best partners on stage (Photo: IMER)
Rosa Elena Miller, daughter of Lucha, revealed during an interview that the song I heard your voice would have been composed for her mother after a José Alfredo had an intense telephone conversation with Villa.
And it is that while she was in the United States he was in Mexico and they had constant talks at a distance, but on that occasion love would have forced them to meet again, so she took the first plane to see her lover. /p>
In an interview for Sale el Sol, José Alfredo Jr. revealed that there is a song that his father used to sing and the that little was known due to the suspicion with which he kept the details of the subject secret.
Lucha Villa became one of José Alfredo’s last muses (Photo: screenshot/YouTube)
I woke up in your arms, another of the successes of theSon of the People, was a mystery to his children, because despite the fact that the composer always spoke openly about of what had inspired him to make his songs, with this one it was not the same.
On several occasions José Alfredo Jr. asked his father for whom he had written Amanecí en your arms, or what motivated him to do it, but the interpreter of If they leave us evaded the subject.
However, the day came when he told her that it had been for “a girl who married a very dear friend from the middle”, what he would have believed was for Lucha Villa.