Cachito

The story behind

The song Cachito, created by the Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez in 1957, holds a story that goes from family tenderness to an unexpected ban. Consuelo Velázquez wrote the music and lyrics dedicating it to her second son, Mariano Rivera Velázquez, whom she had with Mariano Rivera Conde. The title, which evokes a "little piece of me" or "my little thing," reflects that maternal bond. Curiously, despite the softness of its lyrics, the song was banned in Spain by the Francoist regime, a situation it shared with another of Velázquez's works, B