Rebekah Del Rio has died aged 57.
The singer-songwriter, who made a quick however memorable look in David Lynch’s iconic 2001 film Mulholland Drive, died on June 23 at her house in Los Angeles.
Her nephew Dan Coronado confirmed the information on Fb, as he wrote: ‘Simply discovered my Tia Becky handed away, and we actually simply noticed her on Father’s Day.
‘So grateful the youngsters acquired to listen to her sing, and likewise that I didn’t take heed to her and secretly recorded the second.’
He paid tribute to her ‘God-given expertise’ for music and thanked his late aunt for sharing her ‘present’.
He added in his tearful put up: ‘Her most well-known tune is titled Llorando which is known as after Roy Orbison’s tune Crying which I’m doing proper now as I sort this out.
‘Thanks for sharing your lovely present with the world Tia. We love you.’
Her Spanish model of Crying appeared in an iconic scene in Mulholland Drive.
She is singing dwell at Membership Silencio, however her character’s voice can nonetheless be heard even after she faints and drops to the ground.
She beforehand revealed that regardless of the model within the movie being a secret recording from her first assembly with Lynch, who died aged 78 earlier this yr, she had sung together with every take.
The singer instructed IndieWire: ‘There have been many takes. And with each take, I sang alongside, as a result of I felt I needed to produce that very same feeling with the vibrato in my throat so the viewers might see it.
‘I additionally wished the attractive women within the balcony, [the film’s stars] Laura Harring and Naomi Watts, to expertise it dwell. They had been current whereas I used to be doing my scene, so I sang to them.’
She once more labored with Lynch in Showtime’s Twin Peaks: The Return revival collection, performing her tune No Stars which relies on a poem by the filmmaker.
Elsewhere, she has appeared on the soundtracks for the likes of Sin Metropolis, Streets of Legend and Man on Hearth.
Her son Phillip DeMares died from most cancers aged simply 23 in 2009, and Del Rio beforehand opened up on how ‘grief’ has impacted her music.
She instructed The Guardian: ‘My voice lends itself to that disappointment as a result of I carry quite a lot of that grief inside.’
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