“We are reconciling, little by little.” An acid attack brought musician María Elena Ríos to the brink of death in 2019. It also left her with conflicted feelings about her saxophone, which she once blamed for the attack.
Maria Elena Ríos holds her saxophone at the end of a rehearsal at the National Autonomous University of Mexico music department, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Ríos, 29, thought her career as a musician and her devotion to hersaxwas what ledherformer boyfriend and politician to hire the men who splashed acid into her faceand body, disfiguring her in 2019. Later, she learned that he simply couldn't accept that she had broken off their relationship.
MEXICO CITY — María Elena Ríos has conflicting feelings about her saxophone: She once blamed the instrument for bringing her to the brink of death — but it also has been her salvation. Ríos, 29, thought her career as a musician and her devotion to her saxophone was what led her former boyfriend - an influential politician - to hire the men who splashed acid onto her face and body, disfiguring her. Later, she learned he simply couldn’t accept that she had broken off their relationship.
Some of the attackers and the ex-boyfriend are in jail, but Ríos still had to come to terms with her instrument. Her love of the saxophone, in the end, is helping heal the psychological scars left by the terrifying attack. “We are reconciling, little by little,” Ríos said of the musical instrument. “I hated it, because I thought it was responsible” for the 2019 attack in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca. She’s performed live since then, but still wears a mask covering her lower face.“It bothered my attacker a lot that I was a musician,” Ríos recounts, “because he said we musicians were vagrants, poverty stricken, that we just took drugs and that when I went to concerts I probably participated in orgies.
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