Rebekah del Río, the iconic singer of the Silence Club scene in ‘Mulholland Drive’, has died at age 57. This has been confirmed by Variety, who has also specified that the artist and composer died last Monday, June 23 at her home in Los Angeles. The cause of death has not been revealed.
For many, the emotional climax of David Lynch’s masterpiece, ‘Mulholland Drive’, is the scene in which the characters of Naomi Watts and Laura Harring visit the silence Club and witness the beautiful and chilling performance of Rebekah of the river. This sings a Spanish version of the song ‘Crying’ by Roy Orbison to Capela, until revealing with a fainting that was actually a playback.
Del Río was living in Nashville until he received his agent’s call warning him that David Lynch wanted to meet her in Los Angeles. The artist had in a 2018 interview that Lynch asked him to sing ‘crying’ without preparation, that she recorded the performance and that in the end she praised her talent.
The singer was the perfect person for the role of ‘Mulholland Drive’, having interpreted the song on numerous occasions during the 90s. Most of these, also without instruments. During the filming of the movie, the late director asked Rebekah to do playback, but she refused: “I told her that I could not gesture my own theme, because I was not going to capture the vibrato,” so in each shot he sang the song in a rigorous direct.
It was not the last time of Rebekah in a Lynch project, returning in 2017 for the last part of ‘Twin Peaks’, in which he played the song ‘No Stars’ next to Moby, which was responsible for playing the guitar in one of the road bar scan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi8c3esikqy
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