When Rocío Jurado died 14 years ago, a hecatomb occurred in Spain almost of the same magnitude as with Lola Flores. He had such a privileged throat that had he been born in the United States, he would have been the counterpoint to Frank Sinatra, aka The Voice.
The Telecinco Hormigas Blancas space remembers the life and work of one of the most genius artists and figure in the history of Spain. And one ahead of its time. One of his great scandals while Franco was still living he starred in the TVE program Change your luck - presented by Joaquín Prat and José Luis Pécker - where he went on stage with some transparencies. That night of April 2, 1974, Georges Pompidou, President of the French Republic, died, but everyone talked about Hurricane Jurado. The Church and El Pardo had shouted to heaven.
Not bad for someone who started from the deepest of miseries. In 1958 he won a contest on Radio Sevilla where he took a bottle of soda, 200 pesetas, some glass stockings and a suit cut. That art earned her that Pastora Imperio hired her in Madrid at her tablao El Duende. But since being a minor she could not sing in public places, it was decided to falsify her date of birth. Instead of being 1946, she always said she was born in 1944.
When in 1968 the businessman Enrique García Vernetta saw the chipionera in the theater, he fell in love with her charms. He began an eight-year love affair - some say they were fourteen - and became his representative, launching it across the Atlantic. Up to three occasions the Jury asked her to marry him, something unheard of at the time, but Vernetta postponed it.
In the end, out of spite, he went down the aisle in May 1976 with boxer Pedro Carrasco (world lightweight champion), with whom he had a daughter Roci-Hito, as the great Maruja Torres ironically renamed her . That multimedia link would remain in the annals of history as those of Isabel Pantoja and Paquirri and Lolita and Guillermo Furiase (both in 1983).
When his mother died of pancreatic cancer when he was only 51 years old (the same one that would feed on Rocío), Manuel Alejandro wrote his most emblematic album, Señora (1979), and his career took off completely. When he died, he had sold more than 30 million records, he was awarded 150 gold and 63 platinum records, they gave him the Gold medal for Merit in Work or the Gold medal for Fine Arts.
The vast majority were envious of her. And Rocío knew it. She had such a big ego that she only loved herself, but she won everyone's hearts with her fine irony and her enormous anger. It was not spoken with another great voice, Concha Piquer; in the dressing rooms of TVE there were shawls to cover her if she exceeded her wardrobe and had the occasional run-in with the paparazzi whom she called "destroyers."
It was very bad for Pedro Carrasco to cheat on him during his absences, so they divorced in 1989. The couple lived in the luxurious Monteclaro urbanization (Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid), where they were neighbors of Joaquín Prat, and there they went Pedro's father will live, because little Rocío felt adoration for her grandfather who, together with Juan de la Rosa (the artist's right hand), took care of the girl as a gold cloth. Later her mansion in La Moraleja was bought.
When she married the bullfighter José Ortega Cano in February 1995, she fought against rumors that said the bullfighter was homosexual (urban legend claimed that he had an affair with former minister Josep Borrell). The largest had no problems with sexual identity as she always advocated for the rights and visibility of gays, her main fans.
The right-hander was dying to be a father and few know the great secret of marriage. The Jury became pregnant, but suffered a miscarriage. Rocío Carrasco had a hard time conceiving and giving birth again when she was over 50 years old was a high risk. That is why they adopted Gloria Camila and José Fernando.
Rocío was always the family pillar. Everything was brewing around her. For this reason, when on September 17, 2004, he announced that he suffered from pancreatic cancer at a press conference in the garden of his home in La Moraleja, that same day he wrote his last wishes. On June 1, 2006, he died in his home and, from that moment, an earthquake occurred in the Mohedano-Jurado clan that lasts until today.
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