Besando la cruz lola beltran biography

Born Maria Lucia Beltrán Alcayaga on March 7, , in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico; died on March 25, , in Mexico City; married Alfredo Leal; children: one daughter, María Elena Leal.

Education: Secretarial degree, s.

Known for perfecting the art of the Mexican ranchera, a genre akin to American country-and-western music, Lola Beltrán was perhaps Mexico's best-loved singer.

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Mexican music refers to the music of Mexico and its people.

Upon her death in , the entire country went into mourning, with her body lying in state in Mexico City, her songs played endlessly on the radio, and her musical films shown back-to-back on television.

Beltrán, born Maria Lucia Beltrán Alcayaga, was raised in the rural town of Rosario, one of seven children of Maria de Los Angeles Ruíz del Beltrán, a homemaker, and Pedro Beltrán Felix, a miner.

As a child she sang at mass and in the church choir, where her director introduced her to the romantic ballads of Pedro Infante and Agustin Lara. In , after graduat