María de los Ángeles Muñoz Rodríguez, known by her stage name La Panchita, was a Mexican singer.
She took her stage name from the song of the same name by
Joaquín Pardavé
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. She began her career singing
ranchera
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s, but after a tour of
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, she brought new songs to her repertoire, such as the Peruvian waltz "Nube gris". In the 1940s and 1950s, she recorded many songs for the
Peerless
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and
RCA Víctor labels, with the
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
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.
She married the Ecuadorian ventriloquist Paco Miller.
She died on 8 November 2014 in
Monterrey
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,
Nuevo León
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,
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.
Partial discography
Peerless
* "La pajarera" (1947)
* "Sabe Dios" (1947)
* "Decepcionado" (1947)
* "La rejega" (1947)
* "Dos luceros" (1948)
* "Las tres "efes"' (1948)
* "El aburrido" (1948)
* "El sauce y la palma" (1948)
RCA Víctor
* "Corazón, no te rajes" (1951)
* "Nube gris" (1951)
* "Estrellita del sur" (1952)
* "El buque fantasma" (1952)
* "La campesina" (1952)
* "En mi pensamiento" (1952)
* "Mi aventura" (1952)
* "Alma, corazón y vida" (1953)
* "Corazón, ¿por qué?" (1953)
* "Corazón" (1953)
* "Nuestro amor" (1953)
* "Desafío" (1954)
* "Los dos perdimos" (1954)
* "Arrieros somos" (1955)
* "El andariego" (1955)
* "La casita blanca" (1955)
Musart
* "Mis noches sin ti"
* "Nube gris" (second version)
* "Si nos dejan"
* "Alma, corazón y vida" (second version)
* "Dime adiós sin llorar"
* "Verdad amarga"
* "Extráñame"
* "Bella sultana"
* "Materia"
* "Estrellita del sur" (second version)
* "Por qué, Dios mío"
* "Destino amargo"
* "Así paso"
* "Hazme morir"
* "Vida vacía"
* "Peligro"
* "Gota a gota"
* "Flor encantada"
* "El roble"
* "Lamparita"
Filmography
* ''La liga de las canciones'' (1941)
References
External links
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Ranchera singers
2014 deaths
20th-century Mexican women singers