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places often as her mother accepted whatever work she could. While growing up, Lágrima would listen to the music that played on the radios of her neighbors while her mother worked as a housemaid, a cook, and as a laundress. Lágrima would memorize the music and the lyrics and then sing and dance along with the music. Lágrima later related that, at three years old, she fell in love with singing through listening to the records in the houses her mother worked in.
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Lágrima first worked as a housemaid. The house that she worked in had a radio through which she could listen to the music. She listened to music from every class of people and committed the lyrics to memory. The piano that was in the house dazzled her, and she learned how to tune it and, eventually,
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As a child, Lágrima Ríos lived in extreme poverty. However, in spite of her lack of money and comforts, even in her childhood she knew she wanted to be a dancer. When she was very young, her mother left the city of
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When she was born, her mother was fifteen years old even though the birth certificate says that she was sixteen. Lágrima never knew her father, but was close with her maternal grandparents. The grandmother, regardless of her poverty, helped her teenage daughter raise a young Lágrima. Lágrima's
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River. Lágrima would describe her grandmother as a woman who would "cut through the bad with scissors". When her grandparents moved to
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how to play. Lágrima later worked as a cook for an ambassador of the United States; through this she became familiar with the
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radio station. She adopted the stage name "Lágrima Ríos" and went on to sing with a number of well-known bands.
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militant that spent 30 years in Sweden as an exile.
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