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Almost 15 years of absence from the cameras allowed

Emilio Aragón (62) to

shake off stress, enjoy family and develop new projects such as

BSO

.

broadcast by Movistar +, where the interviewees answer the questions based on

the songs

that have impacted them the most.

As a Renaissance man in a postmodern version, there is

a figure in his life who is still sacred

.

We talk about

his mother, Rita Violeta Álvarez,

the fundamental pillar for children of various generations to have dreams, laughter and illusion.

Rita Violeta Álvarez and her son, Emilio Aragón, inside a car.

She has always been distinguished for being

a woman who did not like to stand out.

He met Emilio Aragón

'Miliki' when he was 12 years old

and after cultivating their friendship in

his native Cuba,

the thing resulted in an immeasurable

love that ended in a wedding

in 1953 and with the birth of five children,

Rita, María Pilar and Emilio

(born in La Habana) and

María Amparo,

who saw the light in Chicago.

The family left the island a year after

Fidel Castro came

to power

.

Emilio Aragón, Miliki, and his wife, Rita Violeta Álvarez, met during childhood.

From the shadow,

at 87 years old

Rita continues to enjoy the success of her children and grandchildren while

missing the love of her life,

who died of pneumonia almost ten years ago. Rita and Miliki had turned their home kitchen into the epicenter of

family gatherings

where they ate, drank and, above all, chatted. Lately, the mother-child love between Rita and her son Emilio has materialized with the publication in 2019 of the album

Bebo San Juan, around the world

-Emilio's grandchildren call him Bebo in private- for which he has composed the

homage-songs

to the Caribbean island that is so present in its daily life.

As he wrote on his website, "as a child the fabada coexisted perfectly with the Congrí, the guaracha with the sevillanas, Beny Moré with Miguel de Molina. These songs take

a promise to be

fulfilled

with my mother Rita and with Aruca".

In his new program, Emilio and his alter ego,

Bebo San Juan,

play the piano, the accordion or the ukulele with very Cuban rhythms.

That album also emerged in the kitchen: "Listen to me, you have composed songs for Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino and all these people, but you have never done anything to sing yourself."

At first, Emilio felt some misgivings, but he

complied with his mother's request.

The couple and their daughters Rita, María Pilar and María Amparo.GTRES

Despite her advanced age, Rita's blood boils because she

wiggles her hips like no one else

to the rhythms of guaracha and merengue and rocks her grandchildren between lullabies and syncopations. As Emilio confessed to

XLSemanal,

the multifaceted artist was moved when he heard her in his rocking chair that of "fall asleep, my child; fall asleep, my love; fall asleep, piece of my heart."

The matriarch sweats 'Cubanism'

from every pore on her skin. If he hears music from his land, he starts dancing anywhere, even in restaurants. It is still attached to the island where it was born. Although

she feels like a pro from Madrid,

Cuban things are always on the surface.

Rita uses social media to communicate with family members who are still on the island and still speak in the present of deceased artists.

And

beans and plantains

always

fall

every week

.

Due to the Aragon's work with the circus, the family lived in

San Juan de Puerto Rico, Buenos Aires, Mexico City,

Caracas, Miami, Chicago ... "Wherever you go, do what you see," Rita and Miliki used to tell them. to his children;

therefore, music was

the best vehicle

to adapt to new cultures.

The Aragón-Álvarezes are proud of their legacy.

In 1948, Miliki and her brothers Gaby and Fofó starred in Cuba's first Spanish-language television show for children, shortly after its inauguration in the United States.

When his father and uncles first recorded

El gran circo de TVE

, the

whole family settled in Spain.

Emilio Aragón Álvarez stepped on it for the first time when he was 14 years old.

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