The singer of copla, pop flamenco and popular music and actress of La Paz origin Manuela Otilia Pulgarín, better known as Rosa Morena , has died on the night of this past Tuesday in the city of Badajoz at 78 years of age.

Considered one of the precursors of Spanish pop flamenco of the 70s , Rosa Morena was born in Felipe Checa de Badajoz street daughter of a miner and member of a large family, began singing in her land at age 5, and began to become known through performances in Radio Extremadura.

At age 8 he appeared in the theatrical show 'Los nardos Extremadura', and at 12 he debuted in Madrid next to Maestro Millán. With just 15 years began a journey that took her through France, Belgium , Japan, Latin America or the United States, where she came to act with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin or Ella Fitzgerald , among other artists.

Named 'The best artist in the City of Skyscrapers' by the artistic critics of the New York city, being the first Spanish-speaking singer to get this award , after her subsequent return to Spain she began a popular career conquering the Spanish people in the years 70 of the last century, reaping successes, among other topics, with the famous Échale cherries to the turkey .

Speaking to Europa Press, the chronicler of Badajoz and Rosa Morena's personal friend, Alberto González, has confirmed that a few years ago he had a cancer and had a series of operations and "more or less resisted it because she had a very open character , very vital ", although" in the end the thing has been twisted "and has been admitted for about a month until he died last night from this same disease.

About Rosa Morena, she recalled that 10 years ago she was put on a street in Badajoz in memory of this artist, which she has defined as "a very vitalist woman" and "a very small figure on the outside, because she was tiny", but that " he had a vitalism and grew from the inside "when he went on stage.

"She was a folkloric woman very involved in the world of copla with a great activity, not only outside of Badajoz", she recalled, while emphasizing that "she never denied her Badajocense origin" and in her relations with the capital of La Paz, to which he dedicated the song 'Badajoz, my land' , "a magnificent precious pasodoble" that was his "sign of identification".

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