Mari Trini | |
Background: | solo_singer |
Birth Name: | María Trinidad Pérez de Miravete-Mille y Pascual del Riquelme |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1947 |
Birth Place: | Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia), Spain |
Death Place: | Murcia, Spain |
Occupation: | Singer-songwriter |
María Trinidad Pérez de Miravete-Mille y Pascual del Riquelme (12 July 1947 – 6 April 2009), better known as Mari Trini, was a Spanish singer-songwriter and from Caravaca de la Cruz.
She learned to play guitar as a youngster and wrote songs from an early age. Trini met producer Nicholas Ray in the 1960s, and he encouraged her to move to London; soon after she left for Paris, where she eventually signed to a record label.[1] Her debut album was released in 1969, and through the 1970s and 1980s was a popular figure in Spanish pop music.
Mari Trini died in Murcia in 2009, from lung cancer.[2]