For Del Rio’s return to Lynch country, they featured the song “No Stars,” which began as a poem by Lynch that he then turned into a song with his longtime engineer John Neff and Del Rio. I started performing the song in Spanish, a capella, and it became my signature song,” Del Rio said.įifteen years after “Mulholland Drive,” Del Rio re-teamed with Lynch to perform (starring as herself) in Episode 10 of “Twin Peaks: The Return” at the fictional Roadhouse, where each week musicians like (“The”) Nine Inch Nails and Sharon Van Etten performed at the end of the installment. “I met this wonderful singer-songwriter from Venezuela named Thania Sans and asked her if she would help write the translation for me. The Spanish version of “Crying” came out of a tribute to Queen of Tejano music Selena after she was murdered by her former manager in 1995. Unknown to Del Rio, Lynch recorded her that very day, and with that recording was inspired to build the Silencio scene, which ultimately launched the by-then-debunked ABC pilot that was “Mulholland Drive” into the feature film it now is. Our mutual agent, Brian Loucks, introduced me to David and asked me to sing for him.” I landed my record deal by singing ‘Crying’ in Spanish years before I met the director. He’s always listening.”ĭel Rio, a loquacious interview who’s still chuffed all these years later to be talking about David Lynch at all, first met the director in what he calls a “happy accident,” but she said, “I call it money in my karmic bank! When I met David Lynch, I had a country record deal in Nashville. David uses live mics when he’s filming, by the way. They were present while I was doing my scene, so I sang to them. I also wanted the beautiful girls in the balcony, Laura Harring and Naomi Watts, to experience it live. And with every take, I sang along, because I felt I had to produce that same feeling with the vibrato in my throat so the audience could see it.
But for a scene about the performative nature of singing and lip-syncing, Del Rio, as she explained during a recent IndieWire interview, actually sung the song in camera. At the downtown Los Angeles “Club Silencio” (in reality, the still-standing historic Tower Theatre), Del Rio croons “Llorando” onstage before collapsing unconscious, her vocals continuing. The three-octave singer from Chula Vista, California, famously renders Roy Orbison’s wallowing breakup ballad “Crying” as a glorious a capella epic in Spanish, “Llorando,” during a pivotal “Mulholland Drive” scene that serves as the bridge from fantasy to reality nightmare. And so, more than 20 years later, we’re still talking about movies like “ Mulholland Drive.” While actresses like Dern, Naomi Watts, Grace Zabriskie, and Sheryl Lee are often thought of as Lynch’s muses, there’s one woman without whom the entire David Lynch universe wouldn’t be the same: Rebekah Del Rio. Ask any artist who’s worked with him, from Laura Dern to Patricia Arquette, they’ll tell you the Missoula native and Eagle Scout is a master filmmaker and an empathetic collaborator, with anyone he hires willing to follow his strange star down the rabbit hole together.
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