The singer died wrapped in unknowns about his life, with a very closed environment
His last interview, in LOC: "The solidarity posture serves. Going out in the photo compromises you"
At some point in his life, at the end of the 80s, and having made a fortune with his first albums and adventures in the musical theater, Camilo Sesto chose loneliness before public life, seclusion before homage and applause. He never reached the extremes of the writer JD Salinger, locked in a fortress inaccessible and impervious to secrecy, but little was known about his life , and what little was known, he knew badly, especially when he was periodically resurfacing with new songs, records or projects, and gave an occasional interview that, usually, clicked on bone.
And if he didn't speak, Camilo could spend years to protect the gossip in his house in Miami or in the villa in Torrelodones , where he had had his main base since 1975, surrounded by his family memories, his books and his prizes. Perhaps, also, because what he would have been interested in showing an inner world fueled by the presence of objects from the past, as if he were our Liberace, did not correspond many times with the interest of the media , who sought his side from him freak or murky, as if they saw a Michael Jackson in Alicante.
In the mid-90s, Camilo Sesto opened the doors of his house to Javier Cárdenas , at the time when he worked as a joker reporter for his brother-in-law Alfonso Arús -in the Força Cor program , of the regional TV3- and interviewed Histriones like Carlos Jesús or Paco Porras. The visits ended soon: the portrait of Camilo Sesto who offered those interviews was that of a madman, squeaky and splashing in decay, something too humiliating for who had been a mass idol and who still had sentimental journey among fans , because his omnipresence was still to come on the menus of all karaokes and his second life as a pop star thanks to hits like Mola mazo.
Surely, Camilo Sesto saw himself as an Oscar Wilde character, reluctant to grow old - hence his obsession with aesthetic operations - and jealous of his intimacy, it is not known whether because there was something to hide - he held in the few interviews that gave no- or little desire to explain themselves by inconsequential issues, as he preferred to be alone than bearing the weight of existence in company. Thus, his personal life has been largely an enigma , and the data that are known are interrupted traces of a story that is known in broad strokes, but which in many respects will remain incomplete.
He never married, but he is credited with scattered love affairs with third-class actresses - the one who had a closer relationship was Andrea Bronston , a live showgirl and daughter of film producer Samuel Bronston (King of Kings, El Cid) - although it was Lourdes Ornelas who had a central role in his life for having given birth in Mexico to his only son, Camilo Jr. -or Camilín, as he referred to in his teens. In 1984, Camilo Sesto returned to Spain after a while in Mexico and got off the plane with Lourdes, a journalist at the time, and a few-month-old baby in his arms. They never married and the relationship was, above all, utilitarian: it was the way the singer found to have a child by natural means. That was, at least, the portrait that Ornelas drew earlier this year when he agreed to be interviewed on the TV show Save Me .
Camilo Sesto stayed in the custody of his son and lived in his house until the emancipation of the young Camilín , just over a decade ago, with 23 years. The relationship seemed idyllic and happy - it was the image transmitted by those video reports by Javier Cárdenas - but also in the past, the relationship hid its dark spots. Camilo Jr. , On the rare occasions when he has decided to speak with the media, has explained episodes of overprotection and excess control, an isolation from the world in parallel to that of his father, which caused him episodes of depression during his teenage years, and that increased family distance in adulthood.
Beyond this, Camilo Sesto's media presence was limited to his increasingly spaced galas or record releases, to morbid events such as the assault and robbery of his home in Torrelodones at the beginning of the century - he boasted of having no bars in the windows-, the occasional rumor about his possible homosexuality - especially when a shark appeared wanting to collect a set and claimed, without proof, to have been his lover-, and above all the poor health and the fight against physical deterioration that They have marked their last years, from a tibial fracture earlier this year to their two liver transplants in 2001 and 2002, coupled with kidney disease that was ultimately the cause of death.
And, of course, its aesthetic operations, evident since the 90s -stretches of skin, collagen and bone polishing, above all-, which gave it a cerulean and artificial appearance that it wore in its last years, perhaps one more justification for avoid daylight and sustain its state of isolation in an increasingly protected and hermetic environment , and in which he, if we heed his scant testimonies, felt happy among his beloved things, without contact with an outside world that He had ceased to interest him, if he was ever really interested.
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