Francisca Vivers Barradas, Better known as Paquita la del Barri, Is one of the greatest exponents of Mexican music, especially in genres such as the rancher. Its popularity is due to its unmistakable unique voice and style, where highlights his famous phrase “Are you listening to me, useless?”, Which he recites during his live performances.
This Friday, the hit singer as Two-legged rat turns 74 years old having been born in Alt Estel, Veracruz. That’s why we tell you the origin and history of his famous and popular phrase, which more than one person has called to all lungs.
(…)The origin of the phrase “Are you listening to me useless?” of Paquita the one of the District
Daughter of a single mother, Francisca she was raised by her aunt Lucia. He had several half-brothers, but none of the same mother and father. He grew up and began working in the civil registry of his municipality. There he met his first love, the treasurer Miguel Gerardo, Who was married, then 44 years old when she was 16. With him, he had his son Iván Miguel at 18 and Javier a year and a half later.
In 1970, Paquita la del Barri, Already separated, it arrives at the City of Mexico. He worked in the restaurant The Northern Bonfire as a singer. There it knew Alfonso Martinez, Who was head of the restaurant la Rivera. He used to go to live with his boss, so they met and had “love at first sight,” as he recounted in an interview for Gustavo Adolfo Infant. They started a relationship, started living together and got married and had children a few years later.
Paquita beginning to ascend in the musical field, it was able to record his first album in studio and it opened his business of food. However, the love between her and her partner began to end. The singer relates that her husband cheated on her on several occasions, and says that after that, she did not fall in love again.
During a presentation on your business, Paquita he was on stage performing Blank check from his album Get revenge on me of 1992. “For a change,” she recounts, her husband had not arrived at the place as he came out to do.
“He left on Friday … Saturday, and on Sunday he arrived (…) Then he was entering the room and was singing, I saw him and I played the music of the return and that was what came to mind ‘Are you listening to me useless ?! (…) people started laughing and they saw each other, and I was left. “
In conclusion, the ‘useless’ to what Paquita evokes in songs like Two-legged rat, Three times I tricked you O I swear I will never return, Where he calls his sentence, is Alfonso Martinez. Francisca Vivers states that after so much, she no longer wants to fall in love.
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