Yolanda Del Rio: songs that strike a chord

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Yolanda Del Rio Pt II: Songs that strike a chord

Yolanda Del Rio Sings From the Heart

By Ramón Hernández

When Yolanda Del Rio performs, she opens up the tear ducts of her audience in a form of soul cleansing. Women break down and cry.

Even machos get watery eyed because they, along with her, are reliving different episodes in their lives.

With each note, the Grammy Award nominee is pulling out sentiment and passion from deep within her soul and her plaintive cry for love is heartfelt because she is drawing from her own experiences, especially when she sings "La Hija de Nadie" ("Nobody's Child"). 

One can feel the suffering, the grief, the unhappiness and the heartache because she interprets each lyric as an actor expresses each line of a script with emotion, even in Portuguese.

"What strikes a major chord with many people is that there will always a hijo (son), or hija (daughter) de nadie (of no one)," the international mega-star said during an interview at the Hispanic Entertainment Archives.

"Someone in the audience may be an illegal child, orphaned or deprived of a parent, or both parents by death. They could also have been abandoned at birth, as a baby, tot or adolescent and they don't have a sense of belonging.

Or it could simply be that it tugs at the heartstrings of a person, who does not know his biological parents."Over the years, the tune that catapulted the Pachuca, Hidalgo native into stardom became a hymn for the single mother, for the unwed giver of life.

"I'm sad to say there will always be hijas y hijos de nadie because young girls and women still come up to me, hold up their babies and say, 'está es la hija de nadie. The father skipped out on me and left me to fend for myself and the baby. Men like these don't deserve to live.' These women cry because they identify with the lyrics. On the positive side, it has hit home with men who have forsaken a mother and child."

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