Plenilunada is a beautiful and somewhat rare adjective derived from plenilunio (full moon). It describes something that is bathed in the light of a full moon.
In the song, the singer yearns for a night that is plenilunada, emphasizing the deep longing for the return of his loved one and the light she brought into his life. It evokes a strong sense of romantic melancholy and vivid imagery.
Vicente Fernández's "Luz De Luna" is a beautiful, melancholic song about a love lost and the profound emptiness it leaves behind. The singer desperately longs for the "luz de luna" [moonlight] to illuminate his sad nights, a light that vanished the moment his beloved left. He needs this moonlight to remember the "divina la ilusión que me trajiste" [divine illusion you brought me] and to feel her as "mía tú, como ninguna" [mine, like no other].
He describes feeling her absence like "amarras como garfios, como garras" [moorings like hooks, like claws] that are drowning him in a sea of partying and pain. Even in the quiet night, he hears her "cadenas arrastrar" [chains dragging], a powerful image of how her memory still binds him. If she never returns, he hopes her memory will at least "ponga luz, sobre mi bruma" [put light on my fog], because without her, his world has been without moonlight.
Vicente Fernández grew up on his father's ranch outside Guadalajara, in Jalisco, and started out singing for tips on the street before signing with CBS México in 1966. His early records like "Perdóname" and "Cantina del Barrio" built his name, but it was 1976's "Volver, Volver" that turned him into a national phenomenon across Mexico and the wider Spanish-speaking world.
Fans came to call him "El Ídolo de México," and critics crowned him the King of Ranchera for his warm, aching tenor and the way he sang about heartbreak, betrayal, and rural life with equal conviction. He recorded well over a hundred albums across his career, including El Rey, Mi Querido Viejo, and a tribute record to songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez, and sold more than 70 million records before his death in 2021 at 81.