A Maria Conchita Alonsos song, two female guitarists and damaged fingers!

karenina_loooove

Active Member
Hello!!!

I was told that the final guitar solo of Maria Conchita Alonso’s song “Y es que llegaste tú” damaged the fingers of two women (who were teenagers at that time) when they tried to play it. Those guitarists are Adriana Navarro, who tried it in 1994 - she was 13 years old then; and Alejandra Palacios, who tried it in 2005 - she was 10 years old then. As far as I know, both guitarists never played that solo again, as their fingers were greatly harmed after attempting it!! I wonder if the size of their fingers had to do with their “harmful” performances… or maybe the improper positions of their fingers on the frets???

Anyway, I hope those who want to try the final guitar solo of “Y es que llegaste tú” don’t get hurt!


** Karenina Yanez **

Mexico City, Mexico
 
I'm sorry about the two musicians getting hurt playing he guitar. That's an awful thing to have happen.

“Y es que llegaste tú” was on the MIRAME album. That was the first one I picked up, the Monday after the VIVA MIAMI TV special aired. That was my first experience with Maria, and I was genuinely impressed with her song with Herb Alpert ("Noche De Copas"). Not knowing a single word of Spanish, and not knowing the title of the song Herb and Maria did together, I just took a stab and bought the MIRAME album, but after listening to it (it was a cassette), I knew that this was not the album with the track with Herb.

Still, I was really impressed with the first song, "Ganar O Perder", and I decided to shop around some more to see if I could find the mystery song. On another trip to a record store, I picked up the O ELLA, O YO album (also on cassette). This was 1989, and record stores were still deeply into carrying cassettes and popular vinyl, with CDs making inroads, but in Philadelphia, in 1989, the Latin section of most stores was very small and generally featured cassettes.

Well, it wasn't on O ELLA, O YO either, but I heard more things that I liked. Third time was the charm when I picked up the cassette of MARIA CONCHITA and found that the song I was looking for was "Noche De Copas". Reading along with the lyrics of these albums, I actually started to pick up a few minor tidbits about the Spanish language.

Around the same time as I was perusing the record stores for Maria Conchita Alonso, I also discovered that Lani Hall had a bunch of albums in Spanish that I'd known nothing about, and I picked those up too - also on cassette only. With all of these cassettes, I longed for to find these albums on either LP or CD, and eventually I did, but the search took years. Maria's albums I have on original LPs, with a few compilations on CD. Same with Lani - all of her titles I have on LP, and one or two on CD with compilations on CD.

Welcome to the Forum, Karenina. Nice to talk about the Latin division of A&M.
 
I'm sorry about the two musicians getting hurt playing he guitar. That's an awful thing to have happen.

I’m sorry for these women, too. I think that Adriana took less time to play the guitar again than Alejandra.
Still, I was really impressed with the first song, "Ganar O Perder"

“Ganar o perder” is my favorite Maria Conchita Alonso’s song!! Other songs by her that I like so much are “Tú, mi hombre”, “Hazme sentir”, “Y es que llegaste tú”, “Todo lo que yo pretendo”

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You know, Harry? I also have all Lani’s albums in Spanish on LP and cassette, except “Lo mejor de Lani” (I lost that cassette 5 years ago!)


¡Viva AyM Discos!
 
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