Francisca Viveros Barradas, better known as Paquita from the neighborhood, is one of the greatest exponents of Mexican music, especially in genres such as rancher. Its popularity is due unmistakable unique voice and style, where highlights his famous phrase “Are you listening to me uselessly?”, which he recites during his live performances.
This Friday, the successful singer as. Two-legged rat turns 74 years old after being born in Alto Lucero, Veracruz. That’s why we tell you the origin and history of his famous and popular phrase, which more than one person shouted at the top of his lungs.
(…)The origin of the expression “Can you hear me uselessly?” of Paquita the one of the District
The daughter of a single mother, Francisca She was raised by her aunt Lucia. He had several stepbrothers, but none from the same mother and father. He grew up and started working in the civil registry of his municipality. There he met his first love, the treasurer Miguel Gerardo, who was married, then 44 years old when he was 16 years old. 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 separated, arrives in Mexico City. I worked in the restaurant North fire as a singer. There he met Alfonso Martínez, who was the head of the restaurant creek. He used to go 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, started living together and got married and had children a few years later.
Paquita he started climbing the music world, managed to record his first studio album and opened his food business. However, the love between her and her partner began to end. The singer says that her husband cheated on her several times and assures that, after that, she did not fall in love.
During a presentation to your business, Paquita I was on stage performing Blind goal from his album Get me out 1992. “For a change,” she says, her husband had not arrived at the right place.
“He left on Friday … Saturday, and arrived on Sunday (…) Then We would go into the room and sing, I see him and I sang the music of the choir and with that I came ‘Can you hear me useless ?! (…) people started laughing and they saw each other and I was left ”.
In conclusion, the “useless” that Paquita evokes in songs like Two-legged rat, I fooled you three times A I swear I’ll never come back, where he calls the phrase, is Alfonso Martínez. Francisca Viveros states that, after so long, she no longer wants to fall in love.
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