Francisca Viveros Barradas, better known as Paquita from the neighborhood, is one of the greatest exponents of Mexican music, especially in genres such as RancheroIts popularity is due to its unmistakably unique voice and style, true emphasizes his famous phrase “Are you listening to me, useless?”, which he recites during his live performances.
This Friday, the popular singer Two-legged rat celebrates 74 years born in Alto Lucero, Veracruz. That’s why we tell you the origin and history of its famous and popular phrase, which has called out more than one person.
The origin of the phrase “Can you hear me uselessly?” by Paquita la del Barrio
Daughter of a single mother, Francisca She was raised by her Aunt Lucia. He had several half-siblings, but none of the same mother and father. He grew up and started working in the registry office of his municipality. There he met his first love, the treasurer Miguel Gerardo, who was married when 44 when she was 16. With him, she had her son Iván Miguel at 18 and Javier a year and a half later
In 1970 Paquita from the neighborhood, already divorced, arrives in Mexico City. Worked in the restaurant The Northern Bonfire as a singer. There he met Alfonso Martínez, who was the head of the restaurant The brookHe went to live with his boss, so they met and had “love at first sight,” as he said in an interview with Gustavo Adolfo Infante. They started a relationship, moved in together, got married and had children a few years later.
Paquita began to rise in the musical realm, managed to record his first studio album and opened his food business. Nevertheless, the love between her and her partner began to endThe singer says that her husband cheated on her several times and assures that she did not fall in love afterwards.
During a presentation at your company, Paquita I was on stage performing Blank check from his album You can count on me 1992. “For a change,” she says, her husband had not arrived at the scene the way he should.
“He left Friday … Saturday, and Sunday came (…) then I entered the room and I sang, I see it and I played the chorus music and it was what I came up with ‘Do you hear me useless ?! (…) people started to laugh and they saw each other, and it stayed with me ”.
Finally, the “useless” who Paquita calls in numbers like Two-legged rat, I fooled you three times O I swear I will never go back, where his sentence screams is Alfonso Martínez. Francisca Viveros confirms that she doesn’t want to fall in love after so much time.
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