The singer-songwriter Rebekah Del Rio, who achieved cinematic immortality in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, has died on the age of 57 in Los Angeles.
The performer, whose albums embody 1994’s No person’s Angel and 2011’s Love Hurts Love Heals, first met Lynch within the Nineteen Nineties. Her efficiency of “Llorando” in Lynch’s 2001 surreal fantasy happened after the long-lasting director heard her privately carry out the Spanish-language cowl of Roy Orbison’s “Crying,” resulting in a scene Lynch conceived throughout Mulholland Drive’s transition from failed ABC TV pilot to Oscar-nominated movie. (Watch it beneath.)
Following Del Rio’s look in Mulholland Drive, director Richard Kelly enlisted her to carry out “The Star-Spangled Banner” as “Vanessa Vera Cruz” in his wild 2006 opus Southland Tales. She moreover performed the function of Pinky within the 2016 sci-fi movie 2307: Winter’s Dream, may very well be heard performing in 2005’s Sin Metropolis, and composed music for the 2010 movie Earlier than We Say Goodbye, which featured one other efficiency of “Llorando.”
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Del Rio additionally appeared in Twin Peaks: The Return for a roadhouse efficiency alongside Moby, and continued making Lynch-themed appearances up till her loss of life, together with touring with The Purple Room Orchestra Performs the Music of Twin Peaks for a number of years. She was additionally a mainstay at Lynch’s Competition of Disruption, performing in each 2016 and 2017.