Loves that became song
Loves that became song and screen. Selena and Chris Pérez, Johnny Cash and June Carter, the legend of La Llorona: stories that live forever in a record, a bolero or a screen.
The elephant and the dove
The two great artists of post-revolutionary Mexico, bound by art and politics and divided by infidelity, who loved and wounded each other until Frida's death.
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Amor prohibido, the Tejano anthem
The Queen of Tejano and her band's guitarist defied her father Abraham's disapproval and eloped on April 2, 1992; she was murdered on March 31, 1995, at 23.
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The greatest love letter ever written
They met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1956; he proposed onstage in 1968 before 7,000 people. She helped him beat his addiction.
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Don't cry for her, Argentina
The colonel and the radio actress who became Argentina's most powerful political couple; Evita championed the descamisados and women's suffrage, and died of cancer at 33.
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An impossible love between geniuses
Lorca fell in love with Dalí at Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes; the painter did not reciprocate physically, but the bond was intense and inspired the "Ode to Salvador Dalí" (1926).
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From Hollywood to a royal throne
The Oscar-winning actress who left Hollywood to become Princess of Monaco: the 20th century's fairy tale come true.
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The legend of betrayed love
The woman who, betrayed by her lover, drowns her children and herself and wanders weeping "Oh, my children!": the legend of love turned to damnation that all of Latin America knows.
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The muse who signed his paintings
Gala left the poet Paul Éluard for Dalí and became his absolute muse, manager and obsession; he often signed "Gala-Salvador Dalí."
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Make love, not war
The Beatle and the conceptual artist whose love became peace activism, their "bed-ins" a worldwide political performance.
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"Mi negro lindo": 41 years of sugar
The Queen of Salsa and her trumpeter Pedro Knight, married 41 years until her death; he gave up his career to be her director, manager and protector — her "negro lindo."
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"María Bonita", an eternal bolero
The greatest diva of Mexican cinema and the bolero composer who adored her: though the marriage was brief, he dedicated "María Bonita" to her, one of the most famous love songs in Spanish.
Read the storyThe samba reborn by love
The great poet of samba, founder of the Mangueira school, and Eusébia "Dona Zica," the cook who had loved him since youth: they reunited as mature widowers, and she pulled him out of obscurity and drink to give him back his song.
Read the storySelena, the Queen of Tejano, eloped in 1992 with her band's guitarist, Chris Pérez, against her father's wishes. Her album "Amor Prohibido" turned that story into an anthem.