Chords for Voice Teacher Reacts to Angela Aguilar - La Llorona

Hi everyone.
Andy Davis here again from Master of Voice, a channel with reactions
to performers from across the world.
In this episode, by big request from you all,
a Mexican-American singer Angela Aguilar.
She's the daughter of Pepe Aguilar,
a very popular Mexican singer, songwriter, and actor and several of you wanted me
to react to La Llorona, a very famous Mexican folk song, so I'm happy to do so.
This is her performance from the Latin Grammy Awards back in 2018.
Let's jump right in. _
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[G] _ [Cm] _ [E] _ [Am] _ [Gm] _ _
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Love the guitars.
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_ [Gm] _ _ [N] _ Beautiful.
I love her dress as well.
That's really cool.
I know this song is
popular around this time of year for celebrations for the Day of the Dead in
Mexico and it is a rather long song with a lot of verses but I looked up that
she was doing a shortened version here during this performance and the
translation is, the weeping woman or sometimes called the crier.
This story
has a lot of lore.
It has been passed down through generations but basically
deals with a woman who had been left by her husband who drowned her children as
a part of that grief and now has been doomed to walk around maybe as a ghost
looking for those children and she sort of brings bad luck to people that come
in close contact with her.
That's just some of the things I've been reading
about this story so you all can help me out on that in the comments.
But, here's a
rough translation of the lyrics we're hearing in this version.
You left the temple one day, Lorona.
When I passed by, I saw you. _
_ Beautiful wickle you wore,
Lorona, that the Virgin believed you. _
So, I am excited to hear how this unfolds
even further and I'm enjoying her voice right off the bat even though she's just
kind of getting started but I like the traditional guitars playing with her so far.
It's really cool.
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Nice chest voice.
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Oh, _ _ [F] _ _
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I like that.
_ [D] Flip into her head [Gm] voice.
How about the yodel quality?
_ _ _ [Cm] De mi lloro, _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] de un [Gb] canto _ lindo.
_ [N] So, these lyrics are,
Woe to me, Lorona.
Lorona or the Weeping Woman, if you will. _
Lorona of the Lily Field and it closes out,
He who does not know about loves the Weeping Woman.
He does not know what martyrdom is.
So, obviously these lyrics are very traditional, steeped in history of the
lore of this story but her performance is so cool.
I really like the control she has over her voice.
Nice in her upper chest voice but, as I was just mentioning, those flips at the ends of the [D] phrases
go up into her head voice a little but there's a little bit of that mixed sound that she lets go of
just a little bit.
Let's go with the control.
It almost has a yodel quality to it and I really enjoy it.
It's really nice.
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_ De [Cm] mi lloro, _
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[Gm] _ [Bb] de un [D] canto lindo.
_ _ [Gm] El que no _ _ _ _ [F] _
eres, [G] Llorona, [Eb] no sabes. Nice!
_ Lo que [Am] es [D] martirio.
_ [Gm] El que no sabes.
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Wow!
Lo que [Am] es _
[D] _ martirio.
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I love [Gm] it! _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Oh, oh, [D]
oh.
_ Oh, [Gm] oh, _
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_ [Cm] _ [Gm] _ [A] oh.
[Bb] Oh, oh, oh.
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Wow!
_ She went from a very controlled chest voice sound there, nicely done, displaying some differences
in dynamics in this song which takes some great control and then floating right up into that
focused head voice there at the end.
This was beautifully done.
I know there's a different
version of this song with two other singers that she performed on the Grammy Awards and I may react
to that very soon as well but I just wanted to get a first impression of her and her voice
and of this song in a bit of a shorter performance and I'm impressed.
This was beautifully done
in such a hauntingly beautiful song with a lot of cultural traditions behind it.
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