Mari Trini

Mari Trini

María Trinidad Pérez de Miravete Mille (born July 12, 1947 in Caravaca de la Cruz , Murcia , Spain , † April 6, 2009 in Murcia ) was a Spanish singer and songwriter . With over 10 million records sold, the artist, who is also popular in Spanish-speaking South and Central America, is one of the 15 most successful Spanish musicians. Mari Trini achieved a certain level of awareness in Germany, especially in the early 1970s, with interpretations of Jacques Brel's title Ne me quitte pas and Rina Ketty's global success J'attendrai, sung in French ; also Escúchame ( Ecoute-moi ) was often played on the radio.

Life

Soon after she was born, her parents moved to Madrid with her . From the age of 7 to 14, she was bedridden for long periods of time due to chronic kidney disease, and the corticoid treatment associated with her illness left permanent marks on the left side of her face. In those years she read a lot, learned the guitar and dreamed of a career as a singer. Regarded by her doctor as incurable, she plunged into life. One night she sang in the Madrid club Nikka's directed by Nicholas Ray ( ... because they don't know what they're doing ). He offered her a film role and sent her to London to study acting. Her teacher there was Peter Ustinov , she worked for a year for a radio program and met stars like Roman Polański , Paul McCartney and Marlene Dietrich .

The role she had hoped for did not materialize, and in 1963 she moved to Paris. There she became acquainted with the music of Jacques Brel and Gilbert Bécaud and other protagonists of the French chanson of that era. Soon she called herself just "Marie Trini", and in 1965 her first song was released, Bonne chance, mon amour . She released a total of twelve songs on three extended play singles in France for the record company EMI . With the self-written main title of her second EP, Guitarra , released in 1966, she can be seen in a cameo in the 1967 film La nuit infidèle .

After the death of her father, she returned to Spain in 1967. This was the time of the great protest movements, and their songs, often about personal freedom, met with open ears in dictator Franco's Spain . Mari Trini released four more singles under the RCA label in 1967 . In 1969 she made her first LP with her own songs, but received little attention. With the following albums, Amores and Escúchame , the short singer with the bright blue eyes, who mostly appeared in jeans, was finally able to establish herself on the music market and land her first hits.

In the 1980s, their style approached pop with more elaborate musical arrangements. She made efforts to loosen up her existentialist image. In 1984 she agreed to publish erotic recordings in Interviú magazine . Otherwise she presented herself more feminine and colorful than before. Nevertheless, Mari Trini gradually disappeared from the sight of a wider public

In 2001 she released the CD Mari Trini con Los Panchos as a comeback attempt , on which she wanted to make her greatest hits accessible to a new audience in new arrangements with the Trio Los Panchos .

Mari Trini released a total of 25 albums. In 2005 she was awarded by the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores association for selling ten million records. On International Women's Day in March 2008, the regional administration of Murcia awarded her the Premio Lucha por la Igualdad , a prize for the fight for gender equality. The laudation honored her musical advocacy for women's issues and emancipation.

After the last years of her life were overshadowed by illness (she had a kidney removed in 2004), she died on April 6, 2009 in a hospital in Murcia at the age of 61 (presumably of cancer). She left behind her partner Claudette Lanza, with whom she had been connected for over 40 years, her mother María Mille Campos, her siblings Paco Luis, Gonzalo and Myriam and her political companions María Cristina Van-Meurs, Mayi Etcheverry and Augusto Trujillo.

Discography

• 1969: Mari Trini ("Ne me quitte pas", "Daniel", "Guitarra" ...)
• 1970: Amores ("J'attendrai", "Vive", "Un hombre marcho", "Amores" ...) (ES: platinum)
• 1971: Escúchame ("La Fanette", "Milord", "Me marcharé" ...) (ES:platinum)
• 1972: Ventanas ("Un hombre gris", "No", "Quizas" ...)
• 1973: L'automne ("L'automne", "Quand tu me caresses", "Un homme est parti", "Laisse-moi rêver", "Les amours deviennent folles" ...)
• 1974: ¿Quién? ("Mi tercer amor", "Le robare", "Al fin y al cabo" ...)
• 1975: Mari Trini en français ("Qui", "Mon troisième amour", "La bouteille à la mort", "Je confesse", "L'amour quotidien", "Je volerai" ...)
• 1975: Transparencias ("Querida enemiga", "No te preocupes amor", "Los amantes callados" ...)
• 1976: Como el rocío ("La chanson des vieux amants", "Márchate", "Por ti, por ti" ...)
• 1977: El tiempo y yo ("Le temps des cerises", "El verbo amar", "Acércate", "La liberdad" ...)
• 1978: Solo para ti ("La star", " Non, je ne regrette rien ", "Porqué", "Palabras" ...) (ES:gold)
• 1979: A mi aire ("El desertor", "El poeta", "Ayúdala" ...) (ES:gold)
• 1980: Compilation française Polydor ("L'automne", "Quand tu me caresses", "Mon troisième amour", "Un homme est parti" ...)
• 1981: Oraciones de amor ("Mírame", "Amor que estás en la tierra", "Guárdate" ...) (ES:gold)
• 1982: Una estrella en mi jardín ("Una estrella en mi jardín", "Tu y tu dios", "Amor mío", "A ese hombre" ...) (ES:gold)
• 1984: Mari Trini / Mari Trini interpreta grandes autores mexicanos ("Contigo aprendí", "No", "Noche de Ronda", "Cuando vuelva a tu lado" ...)
• 1984: Diario de una mujer ("Hombre marinero", "Solo es una mujer", "Diario de una mujer", "Aniversario" ...)
• 1985: En vivo live album ("Yo confieso", "Un hombre marcho", "Amores", "Ne me quitte pas", "Hombre marinero" ...)
• 1986: ¿Quién me venderá? ("La carta", "Un canto de amor", "Ay dios mío", "Hazme un favor" ...)
• 1987: En tu piel ("Parlez-moi d'amour", "La soledad", "Por una vez", "Te jure", "Arriba el ánimo" ...)
• 1990: Espejismos ("Andalucía", "Sobre la arena", "Déjalo correr", "La verdad", "Dos errantes" ...)
• 1993: Sus grandes éxitos double album ("Mi tercer amor", "Ne me quitte pas", "Milord", "Un hombre marcho", "Mírame", "Me marcharé" ...) (ES:gold)
• 1995: Sin Barreras ("Sin un adios", "Las sombras nos acosan al amañecer", "Para quererse", "Corazón de Madrid", "Amores, versión 95" ...)
• 1996: Alas de cristal ("Avec le temps", "Mira", "Lunas de papel", "Como una isla tu cuerpo", "Vuelve", "No pasa nada" ...)
• 1998: Mari Trini ("Por una vez", "Pero ellos no son", "El recuerdo de una isla", "Canción vieja", "Soy un caso perdido" ...)
• 2001: Mari Trini con Los Panchos double album ("La Paloma", "Tuya", "La corriente", "Quizas", "Nosotros", "La barca", "Caminemos" ...)
• 2005: Una estrella en mi jardín Set: 2 CD / 1 DVD (anthology of your successes)

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Spain (Promusicae)	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2	450,000	elportaldemusica.es ES1 ES2
All in all	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2

Web links

• Mari Trini (Official Website), 2007 (accessed October 28, 2013)
• The Guardian: Obituary - Mari Trini
• Europopmusic: Mari Trini
• La página de Mari Trini

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audio: Bonne chance, mon amour ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (complete, 3:07), Mari Trini (Official Website), accessed October 28, 2013
2. ↑ Video: La nuit infidèle on YouTube (excerpt, 3:08)
3. ↑ 35 años de portadas históricas: De María Esteve (la hija de Marisol) a Paula Vázquez , Interviú (accessed on October 28, 2013)