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"Perfidia" (Spanish for "perfidy", as in faithlessness, treachery or betrayal) is a song written by Alberto Domínguez (1911–1975), a Mexican composer and arranger born in the state of Chiapas, about love and betrayal. Aside from the original Spanish, other renditions exist, including English and instrumental versions. The English lyrics are by Milton Leeds. The song was published in 1939 and became a hit for Xavier Cugat in 1940. Desi Arnaz sings the Spanish version in the 1941 film Father takes a Wife which starred Gloria Swanson. This version was used by director Wong Kar-wai in his films Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046.
"Perfidia" has been recorded by many artists, including Xavier Cugat, Hugo Montenegro, Julie London, the Four Aces, Charlie Parker, Laurel Aitken, Bud Roman and the Toppers, Mel Tormé, Olavi Virta, Café Tacuba, Glenn Miller, Nana Mouskouri, King Tubby, Phyllis Dillon, James Last, the Ventures, the Shadows with and without Cliff Richard, Trini Lopez, Linda Ronstadt (in Spanish and English), Nat King Cole, Sara Montiel, Los Tres Caballeros and Javier Solís (in Spanish), Los Panchos, Lawrence Welk, Luis Miguel, Issac Delgado, mandolinist Dave Apollon, Olivia Molina, Perez Prado, Freddy Fender, Ibrahim Ferrer, Los Rabanes, Andrea Bocelli, Alfredo Sadel, Ray Conniff, Duke Pachanga, Frank Galan, John Altman, Ben E. King, Café Tacvba, Wilbert Alonzo Cabrera, and many others.
An English arrangement of "Perfidia" was also the founding song of the Princeton Nassoons, Princeton University's oldest a cappella group.
Perfidia, published in 1997, was the last novel by Judith Rossner, author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. The book's title, which means "perfidy" in Spanish, references the popular song by the same name. Like the song, the book deals with the issue of betrayal and details the devastating consequences of the emotional abuse that a mother inflicts on her daughter.
" Perfidia" is a popular Mexican song.
It may also refer to:
- Perfidia (Rossner novel), by Judith Rossner
- Perfidia (Ellroy novel), by James Ellroy, published in 2014
- "Perfidia" (Journeyman), an episode of the TV show Journeyman
- The Man in Grey, a 1943 British drama film released in Spain and Portugal as Perfidia
- Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, a 1945 French film released in Italy as Perfidia
- Perfidia (film), a 2009 Bolivian film directed by Rodrigo Bellott, starring Gonzalo Valenzuela
Perfidia is a historical and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Published in 2014, it is the first novel in The Second L.A. Quartet, referring to his four prior novels from the first L.A. Quartet. Ellroy dedicated Perfidia "To LISA STAFFORD". The epigraph is "Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. - Proverbs 3:31". Ellroy also includes the definition of Fifth Column. Janson is the typeface for Perfidia.
Perfidia was released September 9, 2014. A Waterstones exclusive limited edition of Perfidia was released September 11, 2014, and includes an essay by Ellroy himself titled "Ellroy's History – Then and Now." The main characters of Perfidia are Hideo Ashida, a Japanese LAPD chemist, Kay Lake, a young woman looking for adventure, the real life William H. Parker, a gifted LAPD captain with a drinking problem, and Dudley Smith, an LAPD sergeant born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Los Angeles. The novel is told in real-time, covering twenty-three days with the dates and the time the chapters and events are occurring, as well as through Kay Lake's diary. An entry from Kay Lake's diary begins Perfidia, followed by a bootleg transmitter radio broadcast on Friday, December 5, 1941, being broadcast by real life Gerald L. K. Smith. The first chapter introduces the reader to Hideo Ashida, on Saturday, December 6, 1941, at 9:08 a.m. Since many fictional and real life characters appear in Perfidia, many from his prior novels, Ellroy added a Dramatis personæ, which notes the previous appearances of characters in Perfidia, as well as short summaries for some of the characters.