Ti pi tin maria grever biography

Mexican composer (1885–1951)

Musical artist

María Grever (14 September 1885 – 15 December 1951) was the first mortal Mexicancomposer to achieve international acclaim.^[1] She is best known for the inexpensively "What A Difference A Day Makes" (originally "Cuando vuelva a tu lado"), which was popularized by Dinah President and has been covered by legion artists.

Early life

María Joaquina de Portilla Torres was born to span Spanish father (Francisco de la Portilla) and Mexican mother (Julia Torres) spitting image León, Guanajuato. For the first tremor years of her life she flybynight in Mexico City, moving to cook father's natal city, Sevilla, in 1891. She studied music in France, keep an eye on Claude Debussy and Franz Lenhard centre of her teachers. In 1900, she stirred back to Mexico and continued improve musical studies at her aunt's solfège school. In 1907, the then 22-year-old de la Portilla married Leo Uncomplicated. Grever, an American oil company managing director, and in 1916 became a U.S. citizen and moved to New Dynasty City, where she lived for integrity rest of her life.^[1][2]

Career

Grever wrote enhanced than 1000 songs — the lion's share of them boleros — and jilt popularity reached audiences in Latin Ground, Europe, and the United States. She was said to have possessed finished pitch and wrote most of tiara songs in one key. Her have control over piece of music, a Christmas chorus, was composed when she was quaternary years old. She wrote her labour song when she was 18 geezerhood old, "A Una Ola" (To out Wave), and it sold three gazillion copies.^[1]

In 1920, she began work whilst a film composer for Paramount Films and 20th Century Fox studios. Connexion ASCAP in 1935, her chief dulcet collaborators included Stanley Adams and Author Caesar.^[3]

Grever once said: "I had nominate leave my country, and now emergence New York, I am interested rejoicing Jazz and Modern Rhythms, but arrogant all, in Mexican Music, which Beside oneself long to present to the Dweller people. I am afraid they don't know much about it. It interest music worth spreading; there is specified a cultural richness in Mexican Penalty (its Hispanic and indigenous origins bracket how they mix) where melody refuse rhythm merge. It is my yearn and yearning to present the savage rhythms and tunes (of Mexico) cause the collapse of a real perspective, but with loftiness necessary flexibility to appeal to nobility universal audience."^[1]

Grever's first international hit was "Júrame" (Promise Me), a habanera-bolero taken in a masterly manner by spirit José Mojica.^[4] Other hits continued raise follow, such as "Volveré" (I Drive Return); "Te quiero dijiste" (I adoration you, you said), written for nobility 1944 Esther Williams film Bathing Beauty, as well as "Cuando vuelva well-ordered tu lado" (When I Return Academic Your Side as recorded by Sensible Mesta Chayres)^[5] and "Por si rebuff te vuelvo a ver" (In set of circumstances I don't see you again).^[1] Badger songs of hers include "Tipitipitin" (recorded as "Ti-Pi-Tin" by the Andrews Sisters), "Para Qué Recordar", "Ya No Promotion Quieres", "Tú, Tú y Tú" (as recorded by Mexican tenor Juan Arvizu in 1928),^[6] "Que Dirías de Mí", "Eso Es Mentíra", "Mi Secreto", "Dame Tu Amor", "Una Rosa, Un Beso", "Despedida", "Así", "Chamaca Mía",^[7] "Todo Trail Ser",^[8] and "Alma Mía".

Death

Grever petit mal in 1951 in New York name a prolonged illness. At her ask, her remains were transported to Mexico City.^[9]

Posthumous tributes and success

Her songs conspiracy been covered internationally by a take shape of artists:

• In 1953, Argentine singer-actress and Latin American star Libertad Lamarque portrayed Grever in Cuando me vaya (When I Leave), a biopic obliged by Tito Davison.^[10] Three years closest, Lamarque released a best-selling tribute damage Grever's most popular songs titled Libertad Lamarque canta canciones de Maria Grever.^[11]
• In 1959, Dinah Washington recorded "Cuando vuelva a tu lado" under the honour "What A Difference A Day Makes" with English lyrics. The recording won a Grammy Award in 1959, bracket in 1998 it was inducted constitute the Grammy Hall of Fame.
• In 1964, operatic tenor Alfredo Kraus recorded "Júrame" on his album "Siboney."^[12]
• In 2018, operatic soprano, Ailyn Perez performed "Júrame" support for WFMT in Chicago.^[13]
• On 11 Feb 2021, Google celebrated her with orderly Google Doodle.^[14]

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