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We see Héctor (voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal) playing the song to Coco as a child – here it’s not a bawdy showstopper but a tender lullaby.

Along the way, we discover that “Remember Me” was actually a song written by Héctor for his daughter, Coco, and stolen by Ernesto. Miguel can see his skeletal dead relatives and decides to seek a blessing from Ernesto. Not only that, but he is now cursed and needs a family blessing to return to the Land of the Living. The problem is that, once he plays the guitar, Miguel becomes invisible to all living people. The boy’s grandmother destroys his guitar, and Miguel breaks into de la Cruz’s mausoleum to steal the famous instrument. Listen to “Remember Me” from the Coco soundtrack.Īfter discovering a photograph of his great-great-grandfather Héctor holding de la Cruz’s guitar, Miguel is convinced that he and his idol are related and tells his family he is going to become a musician. The problem is that Miguel’s family is fundamentally opposed to the idea, largely because Miguel’s great-great-grandmother Imelda’s husband left her to pursue a career in music. Miguel is smitten with the performance and has his heart set on following in de la Cruz’s footsteps and becoming a musician. Ironically, given the title of the song, it’s the performance that kills the singer, as a giant bell falls on him at the song’s ending. We first come across “Remember Me” as performed by de la Cruz in a showbizzy, mariachi style. “Remember Me” is the emotional core of Coco, performed a total of four times throughout the film and linking generations of family together.Ĭoco tells the story of Miguel, a Mexican boy who idolizes the late singer, Ernesto de la Cruz. Four years after Frozen and “Let It Go,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez worked their songwriting magic again with “Remember Me,” the song that runs throughout Pixar’s 2017 classic, Coco.