Soon, she taught everything she knew about shoemaking to her daughter, brothers, and son-in-law, and Coco taught her own daughters in turn. Needing to support her daughter, Imelda turned to shoemaking as Coco grew up, often making shoes for her own daughter and becoming very good at it. Angered at Héctor for leaving their family (unaware that Hector wanted to return home, but was murdered by Ernesto), Imelda tore his picture off the family portrait, obscuring his identity in the family, and decreed music forbidden from then on, blaming it on his disappearance. However, he never returned, leaving Imelda to take care of Coco alone. While Imelda was ready to settle down and raise Coco, Héctor wanted to give his music to the world, so he set out on tour with his friend Ernesto de la Cruz. Their romance soon developed into a marriage, and at eighteen to nineteen years old, Imelda gave birth to a daughter named Coco. As she matured, she eventually fell in love with an aspiring musician named Héctor, partially due to their shared talent in music. Imelda was born in 1899 in Santa Cecilia, living there with her younger brothers, Felipe and Óscar. She died way before I was born.” ―Miguel, opening narration You see, that woman was my great-great-grandmother, Mamá Imelda. “ Music had torn her family apart, but shoes held them all together.
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