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Lágrima Ríos was the stage name of Lida Melba Benavídez Tabárez (Durazno, September 26, 1924 – Montevideo, December 25, 2006), a prominent candombe and tango singer of Afro-Uruguayan descent.^[1] Her voice was powerful and she is also known as the "Black Pearl of the Tango" and the "Lady of Candombe".^[2] Her rendition of Vieja viola was listed in the book 1001 Songs you must hear before you die (London, 2010).

Origin of her artistic name

Alberto Mastra, her teacher, before integrating her into one of her famous trios, told her:

"We are going to change your name, you can pick between Armonía or Lágrima.

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She picked Lágrima, because tears are not always sad; the greatest joys can also make us cry. This afternoon, in her house on Durazno street, to the South, the tears came as she remembered her mother, with the devotion that only a child raised in a loving home can show.

In the years of Lida del Río first and the years of Lágri