if something had Maria Jimenezwho died today, Thursday, September 7, was his “power” when interpreting songs. That strength that came not only from his throat but above all from his soul, and with him he told us and sang to us each verse of the songs that they wrote for him. Dramatic, intense and empowering I knew how few (or very few) were on stage. Because she, he said, I didn’t have anger, I had courage.

No one like her to shout at love and heartbreak, at horns and despair. To sing and shout against the gender violence, that she, as she confessed, also suffered in her own flesh. No one like her to shout It’s over!, the most mythical and vindictive song of all that she sang. Which was not little.

1. It’s over

Premiered in 1976, this song is considered by many to be one of the first feminist anthems, in which Maria raised her voice because she couldn’t take it anymore. Because she’s over. Because she got fed up with suffering “like no one had suffered”. And she suffered so much that her “skin was left empty and alone evicted into oblivion.” But then she rose again like the phoenix. Because “after fighting death, I began to recover a little and I forgot everything I loved you. And now, now my world is another.”

the very Alexia Pulletasconsidered the best soccer player in the world, with two Ballon d’Ors, recovered that cry to raise her voice in favor of her partner Jenni Hermoso after the non-consensual kiss that the former RFEF president, Luis Rubiales, gave her.

2. With two chest blows

This song by the Mexican Vicente Fernández, was another of his mythical and one of his first songs, included for the first time in his debut album, in 1976. In it he sings -like nobody else- to reproach and deceit. “On her knees she kissed the cross, and crying with beatings on her chest, I thought you were praying for me… Who would have thought that you were lying to me”.

3. The shopping list, with The Mechanical Goat

The Lichis group published their third album ‘Vestidos de domingo’ in 2001, produced by Alejo Stivel. For his first single, Shopping list, They had an exceptional collaborator: María Jiménez. The song was number 1 for weeks and we are still singing and dancing to it at every party. Who doesn’t deserve a prince or a dentist? You who are so pretty and so smart… “You stay by my side and the world seems kinder, more humane and less weird.”

4. With two empty beds

Probably one of the best songs by Joaquín Sabina where he confesses that he no longer closes bars, nor does he do so many excesses… It was included on the album Donde más duele, in 2002, where María Jiménez covers some of Sabina’s hits through rumba and bulería and where she also collaborates with Estopa, in El diario no habla de ti; with Lichis, in Black Stockings, and of course, with Joaquín Sabina himself in With two empty beds.

In it he talks about a love that is no longer there and reproaches him for having left with another. “Who will do your work under my skirt, the mouth that was mine whose mouth will it be, the broken part of your navel no longer turns its back on me when I lose the desire to win with you…”.

5. How happy I am

And finally, one of the best versions that the one from Seville has done. Published on her last album, in 2020 La vida a mi manera, in which she reinterpreted Latin American songs, in which she featured an exceptional artist, Miguel Poveda: What happiness is mine! And it is because “what happiness mine to love you with rage!”. Could that verse sound more beautiful in a throat and in a soul different from that of María Jiménez?