Music.Juan Valderrama: "My mother lives anchored in the past, her house seems like a museum dedicated to my father"
Culture: Dolores Abril, singer, actress and eternal partner of Juanito Valderrama, dies at 85
One of the most distinctive musical genres of our country is
the copla.
And today he is in mourning.
Dolores Abril died this Sunday
in Seville at the age of 85
(and not at 81, since the date of May 9, 1939 was always given as good).
His son Juan Valderrama published the news a few hours ago on his official Instagram account:
"You are together forever.
DEP Dolores Abril. I love you mom."
She was
a child prodigy.
At the age of five he was already memorizing and singing copla, he started
applause at school
where he refused to collect the coins thrown at him by the public and the legendary announcer Elías Ros Garrigós gave him his first professional opportunity on Radio Albacete.
At that time
La voz kids
did not exist
, but the little ones managed to stand out.
Shortly after he made his debut at the city's Circo Theater.
By chance,
Juanito Valderrama and his company were on a tour
of those lands where they were looking for someone to sing saetas.
While Lolita's siblings filled that gap, that 12-year-old teenager
sneaked into
the big star's
dressing room
.
"I want to be an artist," she snapped at Juanito, who was stunned when he heard her listen to the song Spain of mine by his idol Juanita Reina.
Propética was the photo that Juanito dedicated to her at the time:
"For a future star of the song."
But it was not until her
Madrid debut at the Calderón theater
with
La copla Eternal
in 1954 that Lolita Caballero began to make a name for herself and, above all, a consolidated destiny.
When he met Juanito again, he did not hesitate to hire her, he artistically baptized her changing the Knight for April, and
love arose.
But his thing could not work since the artist - he was the first Spanish singer-songwriter thanks to the song
El emigrante
-
was married to María Vega,
a former dressmaker who had sewn for the army with whom he
had three offspring,
María, Juan and José María .
To avoid suffering, Dolores went
to Mexico because Cantinflas wanted to make movies with her
.
But that decision tortured Juanito's heart, who begged him to come back because he couldn't live without her.
The marriage, in 2003. CONCHITINA
He said yes, but on the condition that he
had to give all his assets to his wife
, which at that time amounted to the astronomical figure of
30 million pesetas.
She gave up her solo success on the other side of the pond for a man almost 20 years older than her and
barely reaching 160 cm in height.
After achieving the marriage annulment, in 1981 they
were married in civil law
and six years later in the church.
At that time, her
two children,
Blanca and Juan Antonio,
had already been born
.
Their beautiful love story was captured in their famous
lie fights
on stage and in the cinema with their unforgettable performances in
Gitana
(1965) and
El padre Coplillas
(1968).
When Juanito Valderrama died in 2004 at the age of 87, a part of Dolores left with him.
His house in Espartinas (Seville)
became a museum
in honor of the man with whom he had lived for five decades.
It went into a loop.
He continually watched the films he had starred in, listened to his vinyls, every day he kissed the large photo that hung in the living room and he walked away from public life.
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