1908, November 24 – BIRTH OF LIBERTAD LAMARQUE
Singer (Sagittarius) – by the age of 18 she was already a professional actress on radio and theater, had made her first recording, had married, given birth to a daughter and was in the middle of a difficult divorce;…she was to have a long, highly successful career becoming the first female super star of tango and along the way enduring a series of seemingly never-ending mishaps…in 1935 she may have tried to commit suicide by jumping from a building, luckily an awning broke her fall and saved her life…born in Rosario Argentina, she was the daughter Gaudencio, a son of French immigrants (originally to Uruguay), who married a woman with six children; Libertad was their only mutual child…Gaudencio was a tinsmith by day and a cultured fiery political anarchist by night; in fact Libertad grew up in a household full of music, literature and fashionable ideas…
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Gaudencio started his daughter in theater at the age of seven where she frequently acted in his own plays full of provocative ideas…Libertad was beloved by the public and when she was 12, Gaudencio decided that she was ready for Buenos Aires and so he moved the tinsmith shop and the whole family there…with a letter of introduction in hand from a journalist she was given a small role in the famous Teatro Nacional; she never stopped working…she married a theater promoter with whom she had a daughter but quite soon she realized it was a mistake and she would seek a divorce…during the shooting of the film “La Cabalgata del Circo” she got into a argument with actress Eva Duarte “Evita” whom myth states that she slapped and which resulted in Libertad being blackballed…Libertad, in her autobiography, would deny that she had ever slapped Evita and Evita woul later denied any involvement in her being ostracized but nevertheless all avenues in
Argentina were inexplicably closed to her….Liberta emigrated to Mexico where she was eventually adored and worship to such a degree that Mexicans considered her one of their own; in fact it was from this venue that she would become an internationally beloved star…the output in her career is mind-boggling, over 800 recordings, 65 films and even the screenwriter for her film “Ayudame a Vivir”…she died at the age of 92 in Mexico City while performing in a “telenovela”
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- CLICK HERE – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-tkQK7Igc&feature=related to hear Libertad Lamarque sing “Cantando” written by Simone Anado alon with a series of photos at different stages of her life
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HOLA QUE LASTIMA QUE YA NO TENEMOS MAS A ESA GRAM BUENA ATRIZ Y CANTANTE COMO ERA LIBERTA. MI MADRE QUE HOY TIENE 82 ANOS AMABA A LIBERTAD Y ADORABA SUS PELICULAS. PERO LA VIDA ES HACI TODOS NOS TENEMOS QUE IR A UNA MEJOR VIDA. ESPERO QUE DIOS LA TENGA EN LA GLORIA. AMEN.
gracias por tu commento….yo tambien me recuerdo che mi gran tia en mexico una vez me hablo de Libertad y el tango…era muy amada en mexico tal vez hasta mas que en argentina….te digo que la mia preferida cantante en espanol, que veramente me da emocion come ninguna, es Rocio Durcal…bueno, gracias de nuevo y haber cuando nos visitas en Roma