Víctor Manuel "What do you vote if you want to be Spanish or Catalan? But what the hell is this?"
Album The most intimate photos of the Ana Belén myth
If someone pronounces the name of
María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, it
probably does not sound like anything to them, but things change if it is reduced to two simple words,
Ana Belén (70).
The former child prodigy who, at just 10 years old, left
Bobby Deglané
with his mouth open
on Radio Spain, ended up being one of the
artistic references
in the Spanish language. It is said that when the announcer saw and heard her, he could not repress himself: "Look at her,
daughter of a caretaker
and it seems that her mother was the Duchess of Alba." His mother was the caretaker of the building in which they lived
in the Lavapiés neighborhood
and his father, a cook at the Palace hotel.
Along with
Fernando Rey he
starred in
Zampo y yo
(1966), from whose character he would take his stage name. But after the failure of the film, he immersed himself in the underworld of Narros and the Spanish Theater. That gave her
enough tables
to become one of the most versatile artists of the last half century.
Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel met in A Coruña
in the summer of 1971. He was on tour with
Julio Iglesias
and she was starring in the play
Sabor a miel.
Neither was yet a star.
Ana's partner, Trini Alonso, introduced her to Julio, who knew perfectly well who it was because he had
refused to star in
the film
Life is still the same
(1969) in which
Charo López
took his place.
Ana Bellén and Víctor Manuel were married in 1972.
Believe it or not, the
wedding
of Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel was somewhat
surreal
. In Spain
they could not marry civilly, they
tried to go to Biarritz, but they did not have French nationality and finally they were lucky enough to do so
in Gibraltar
in 1972. There, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had married three years before. Her sister-in-law tried to take the photos, but
she forgot to put the film on,
so the only snapshot that exists from that moment is from outside the courthouse.
Wedding night in Tangier.
Soon came the
children
. Victor was born in 1975, he is a professional musician after dropping out of chemistry and computer science studies and the only one who has made them double grandparents, Olivia (11) and León (6).
Marina came to the world in 1983, she
was a showgirl for her parents and today she is an actress.
The communist militancy
of Ana Belén and her husband took their toll on them even though they called her
"the smile of the PCE."
They came to put
two bombs in their home.
Fortunately, there was no personal injury to regret. "They were people from Fuerza Nueva and their only objective was to destroy," he confessed to
YoDona
a few years ago. With her husband she has achieved great successes, such as
Agapimú
,
La Puerta de Alcalá
or
La muralla
. Unforgettable were his tours with
El gusto es Nuestro
with his intimate friends
Miguel Ríos and Joan Manuel Serrat.
Ana Belén
has always preserved her privacy
so that she was not in the mouths of others, she has never marketed her private life and tends to
pout
when she sees the paparazzi or a journalist wants to pry more than necessary. On one occasion, Víctor Manuel broke a photographer's camera and Ana Belén pulled two others off the motorcycle. Their magical place of disconnection is
their house in Menorca,
where they enjoy pleasant talks with great friends such as Joan Manuel Serrat,
Mercedes Milá or Iñaki Gabilondo
and his wife Lola. They also
adore Cartagena de Indias,
where they usually go at Christmas and then go to the Rosario Islands. Ana Belén hates cooking, she has never been interested. So when they are not on tour,
Víctor is in charge of the shopping
and cooking.
Cinema, theater, series, concerts, recordings ... Nothing has resisted him.
In the collective memory are
Fortunata and Jacinta
(1980),
La corte de Faraón
(1985),
Medea
(2015-2016) and
Antonio and Cleopatra
(2021).
He has
three Ondas awards, the Goya de Honor,
two ACE awards (Association of New York Show Reporters) and four Fotogramas de Plata, among others.
Tonight he goes to
El Hormiguero 3.0
to promote
Eva contra Eva
, a version of the
Bette Davis
classic
,
Eva al Naked
(1950).
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