‘Mulholland Drive’ Club Silencio Singer was 57
Rebekah del Rio, a singer-songwriter who reached cinematic legend with her performance of “Llorando” in David Lynch’s Opus “Mulholland Drive”, died in her home in Los Angeles on 23 June. She was 57 years old.
The death of Del Rio was confirmed by the office of the coroner of Los Angeles. There are currently no further details about her death available.
Lynch was first introduced to Del Rio by their mutual CAA agent Brian Loucks in the mid-90s. The singer worked under a pattal agreement in Nashville, Tenn., Whom she had landed from her recording of “Llorando”, a Spanish -language cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying”. During their meeting, Lynch del Rio asked to perform the song and recorded her secretly. The implementation became the basis for the Club Silencio scene, an addition of Lynch to his by-Then-Returne ABC pilot “Mulholland Drive”, which he reworked in a feature film.
The Silencio series marks a reality-cut crescendo for the Lynch and an emotional eruption film, with leads Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring both burst into tears while looking at the performance of Del Rio in the Cavernous Club. While the order ends with the character of Del Rio, and revealed that she had been lip synchronization, the singer aimed the number for every take while filming.
“There were a lot of Takes. And with every take I sang along, because I felt that I had to produce the same feeling with the vibrato in my throat so that the audience could see it,” del Rio told Indiewire in an interview from 2022. I also wanted the beautiful girls on the balcony, [the film’s stars] Laura Harring and Naomi Watts, to experience it live. They were present while I did my scene, so I sang for them. ‘
The short but memorable achievements put del Rio on the map in the film industry. She was called by writer-director Richard Kelly for his stars-lined SCI-Fi Dystopia ‘Southland Tales’ from 2006, in which Del Rio sang ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ during an Apocalyptic final act. Her vocals can also be heard on the soundtracks for ‘Sin City’, ‘Man on Fire’ and ‘Streets of Legend’.
The connection of del Rio with Lynch took place through the rest of the filmmaker’s career. (Lynch died in January at the age of 78.) She played with Moby in one of the delivery-dependent roadhouse sequences of Showtime’s Revival series “Twin Peaks: The Return”. She also became a member of the Touring performances of the Red Room Orchestra, the music of Twin Peaks has been playing in recent years. Less than two weeks before her death, Del Rio played live at a charity event “Mulholland Drive” screening in the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.
Born on July 10, 1967 in Chula Vista, California, del Rio began to perform in San Diego before moving to Los Angeles. She had a sonPhillip C. Demars, in 1986. Demars died in 2009 at the age of 23.
