LUIS FERNANDO ROMO
Updated Wednesday, January 24, 2024-13:31
Pioneer of pop flamenco, at just turned 85,
Encarnita Polo
is experiencing one of her worst moments as she is broke, has health problems, has had to
get rid of the two cats that have accompanied her
in recent times and lives in Ávila near his daughter Raquel (53) since he could not find another cheaper place.
As reported by
El Español
, the interpreter
sold her jewelry box to survive
, she barely survives on a pension of 900 euros per month and is devastated because practically no one remembers her on television.
Who was going to tell her that she would reach this situation when she ended up in Barcelona
after losing her father,
she performed in various nightclubs where she met Charles Aznavour, Josephine Baker and Gilbert Bécaud.
In 1963 she won the award for best foreign singer at the Naples festival
with the song
La violetera
.
Mina or Rita Pavone had passed through that stage.
In Italy she made her film debut with Domenico Modugno.
In Spain she would touch the sky after marrying in 1969 with the Argentine composer
Adolfo Waitzman
- author of the melody of
Un, dos, tres
and the soundtracks of
La gran familia
(1961) or
Marisol's four weddings
(1967) - thanks to the songs
Pepa Bandera
and
Paco, Paco, Paco
.
She was also
about to represent Spain
in Eurovision while she competed in Passport
to Dublin
(1970), where she was chosen Karina (78).
FALL AND CONTROVERSY
She always defined her husband, whom she divorced in 1978, as a very complicated and jealous man when they addressed him as
'Encarnita Polo's husband'
.
The separation was so hard that it ended with an eviction since the singer had to leave the apartment that she had paid for
by trusting him
when she signed some papers.
The taste of success has been short-lived for Encarnita as she has seen how her life has had to face several adversities.
He lost the 70,000 euros he had saved from Bankia's preferred shares and in 2021 he battled
cancer
that he defeated like a wild boar.
However, she was touched.
In an interview with
La Razón
she commented that "this disease is very treacherous,
it is like a bad boyfriend or a bad husband
."
He also had problems with the LGTBI community when on Telecinco he said that "I like people who are gay but who
don't walk around the street like crazy people
, but rather they are normal people" and "I don't find it normal for two men and two to get married." women, in my opinion. By the Church, of course, then by the Court, let whoever wants to marry."