Camilo Sesto, the idol of the masses who chose solitude and ended up confined in his fortress

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Camilo Sesto's career was so triumphant -at least until the health problems arrived and he almost had to retire permanently-, and

, some happy and others clearly sad, that it is not possible to explain what it was.

in a single idea.

Camilo Blanes

, who was called that when he came to this world, was not only an idol of young people, nor a famous eccentric, nor a sickly timid person, but a

who had to live with the contradictions and benefits that all these circumstances contributed.

So he

;

he was loved by many, but unknown by all;

and he enjoyed success, at the same time that he was a

Born on September 16, 1942 in Alcoy (Alicante)

, Camilo was one of so many young Spaniards in his adolescence who, in the 1960s, and enjoying the very slight opening that the dictatorship was beginning to allow, was

.

He was

-a high, strong, heroic voice-, and also to compose songs, and at the end of the decade he began to discover his vocation in

seduced by ye-yé fashion.

But it was not until 1971, after having started his

on the safe ground of melodic song - his first single was signed with the stage name of Camilo Sexto, which later changed to the more Roman "Sesto" - , when he knew what true fame was.

Camilo Sesto in one of his last public appearances, in 2018.

He published his first album,

, supported by

,

who was at the time one of the most solid composers and producers on the Spanish scene

- however, many songs were Camilo's own creations;

He was never a product, but an artist with good gifts and some limitations, and from there the madness broke out.

, he had the necessary characteristics to infiltrate the elite of the romantic song - here it was also called "light song" - that was dominated by

seemed like the improved synthesis of the alpha singer of those epic years.

When in 1975 he was chosen to star in the Spanish version of the musical

, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's great success of rock opera, his pact with stardom at the highest level was certified.

From that moment,

and, by extension, the famous man.

And when fame broke through, so did speculation.

Did you have a partner?

How much money did you earn?

And if not, how many girls had he met?

At that moment, too,

began

and in his secret.

With the first successes he bought a house on the outskirts of Madrid - in which he almost always lived, until the date of his death, a little over a year ago - and began to separate public life - records, concerts, some promotional interviews - of private life, increasingly inaccessible and mysterious.

The

was surely the one that led to the birth of his only son, Camilo Blanes, better known as Camilín.

In the early 1980s, the wave of success carried Camilo Sesto to Spanish-speaking America, and he worked extensively in Mexico.

From there he returned in 1984 with a newborn son in his arms.

However, he had never been married, and

It was said that he had had relationships with different actresses of little level -sometimes a tentative name would surface, but almost always the "some" was used, without specifying it-, and one of the couples that was cited the most was

, who had She was a showgirl in her band and was the daughter of producer Samuel Bronston, a regular from Spain who had shot in Peñíscola, with Charlton Heston and Sofía Loren, the historical blockbuster

.

Camilo Blanes and his mother, Lourdes Ornelas.GTRES

However,

was an unknown person,

and it was never known for sure how she entered Camilo Sesto's life, if at all, because when he returned to Spain with his son, Camilo came alone.

In later interviews, Ornelas explained that her relationship with Camilo Sesto was solely out

: it was convenient for him to have a child - at a time when there was not even remotely the option of surrogacy - and it was good for her to lend herself to the exchange.

, and one of the reasons that could explain

drift

- today a rich man thanks to his father's inheritance, but

- would be that maternal uprooting and the fact that that, little by little, Camilo Sesto turned his house in Madrid into a

, practically closed to the outside world.

The 90s were the beginning of the

After the

, Camilo Sesto continued to publish songs - some of them successful - but

as popular music entered new territories.

Occasionally he regained the pulse of the times - as with that humorous novelty, Mola mazo, which was surely his last massive tail, as well as

-, but what remained was the character, instead of the artist.

In the mid-1990s, when journalist

managed to enter his house to conduct interviews that were broadcast on the comedy programs that Alfonso Arús was presenting at the time, the portrait of Camilo that emerged from that experience was highly damaging, as if he was a

.

That made him hide even more.

His

were marked by

, only broken with a specific song, a tour or an interview, like when at the end of his life he wanted to launch the

project

, which reinterpreted his greatest hits with orchestra.

They were also marked by speculation derived from his physical change -modeled from numerous aesthetic operations- and by his

, such as the liver transplant that he underwent in 2000, and the kidney failures that took him back to the operating room. on several occasions, between 2012 and 2014. Finally, the body did not resist any more, and died on September 8, 2019. What remained, however, was important:

their songs have quality so that they survive us. all-, and the irresistible attraction of its mystery

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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