“La Grande” sought a way to let her loved ones know that she felt her last day was near and was in charge of indicating even the form and place in which she wanted to be buried
Lola Beltrán felt her death close months before it happened (Photo: Twitter/FilmotecaUNAM)
The death of Lola Beltrán, one of the singers of the regional Mexican< /b> most important in the country, surprised his audience as it was expected that he would be able to face the infarction that stopped his heart for a few minutes; However, the also actress for months had already expected her last day alive from her , even, she would have warned some of her friends.
Lucila Beltrán, also known as Lola La Grande, became one of the most famous faces in ranchera music since her youth, Well, thanks to the radio programs, her talent for singing became known throughout the republic.
Lola’s success was so great after Matilde Sánchez < b>The TorcacitaShe discovered it in the media and it was driven by the fact that Beltrán became a source of inspiration for the most important actors of the time, such as Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren.
Among his most remembered songs are Cucurrucucú Paloma, Huapango Torero, Paloma negra, La feria of flowers, among dozens more.
From a very young age, Lola trained her voice, which opened many doors for her when she first asked for an opportunity on the radio (Photo : Twitter/FilmotecaUNAM)
The native of Sinaloa not only triumphed as a singer, but was also a renowned actress. Films such as The Treasure of Death, Caminos de Guanajuato, together with José Alfredo Jiménez b>, or What a beautiful love, with Antonio Aguilar, they witnessed that her talent was not only to interpret songs, but also great characters.
In her last years of life, Lola was diagnosed with heart disease which seriously affected his life, because from then on he began to take great care of his diet, the activities he had and how he would distribute his inheritance once he died.
However, few people knew of the disease he suffered from, only his closest friends. As José Alfredo Jiménez Jr. uncovered in Story behind the myth, her father was one of the only ones who knew that Lola had a problem with her arteries, which could be < b>deadly for the singer if she did not follow a rigorous treatment.
Lola was honored by dozens of artists around the world. There was always someone who dedicated some recognition, book or song to him (Photo: INAH)
It was for this reason that he would have put all his documents in order, changed his lifestyle and even made a last trip to his native Rosario, Sinaloa, where he just wanted to be with his loved ones on his birthday to say goodbye forever.
During that trip, Lola met with some of her friends, with whom she went to the cemetery to show them where she wanted her remains to be buried and how she hoped her body would be buried. rest.
Luis Villegas Murguía, one of his closest friends, recalled that the moment he said goodbye to his loved ones in Rosario, one of them He told her: “Well, we’ll see each other soon”, to which she quickly replied: “No, we’re going to see each other, but in heaven”..
María Elena, her daughter, was one of the last people who lived with the singer. She reported that her mother usually joked about fainting, which is why on the day of her death she could not believe that it was not a game (Photo: Instagram)
Only a few days had passed since his return to the capital when anacute heart attackstopped his heart for several minutes, until doctors managed to revive him. From that moment on, Beltrán’s health became more and more complicated.
According to José Quintín, the singer’s son, recalled two days after his mother suffered a heart attack, they allowed her to enter the intensive care room where she was. Immediately after she saw him, Lola La Grande, on what would be her deathbed, told him: “Son, I can’t die anymore. I saw her very close and I need to be here for you.”.
Despite the fact that the interpreter of Let me look you in the eye did not want to say goodbye to this shot after the heart attack, on March 24, 1996, while eating with his daughter and getting his hair done by his stylist, Beltrán’s body lost strength, as if it had treated for fainting, however, it was a massive pulmonary thromboembolism that took his life.