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The worst summer of my life was 1977, when I was 16 years old.

I was glued to my uncles all day, I almost lived with them. Always with my aunts Tere, Loli and Juanita. With Loli I went that year to spend the summer to Punta Umbría.

And there I fell in love for the first time.

With the wrong person, of course".

The artist Charo Reina thus begins her summer testimony for LOC, a story of love, laughter and the occasional adolescent tear.

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I was a child and he was quite older than me

. He was the son of some friends of my uncles and he also hung himself for me. However, they had the boy like a madman. And since I like the bad guys in the movies , I fell in love. Let's see, at that time being bad meant going out all day partying and being with many women. And my family was very conservative.

We would see each other at the parties that my uncle Eduardo had at home.

We would kiss under the the stairs. We would meet on the beach and we would escape on his boat to go for walks without anyone knowing".

So far, everything normal.

So, Charo was not of legal age and he had to be home soon.

"In theory I went to bed early, but when everyone went to sleep

I jumped out the window and came back before they woke up.

Until one night my grandfather woke up with the cries of my cousin, who slept in the same room as me and had otitis. When he found that I wasn't in my bed he got very angry!

So he stood at the door of the house and waited all night for me to arrive. I

showed up when the sun was rising, my boyfriend He drove by car. As soon as we saw him sitting there, we turned around in a hurry!"

The escape attempt was foiled.

Charo Reina at the José María Forqué Awards 2021.Gtres

"The streets in Punta Umbría are made of sand. My grandfather ran after us shouting: 'stand there, you scoundrel!'

I got out of the car and they locked me in my room.

Since then that summer I could only go out to the the house or sail on my uncle's boat.

But that wasn't the worst thing that happened to him that summer.

"One day when we went out sailing as a family, the engine broke down on the high seas.

We stayed for hours until they came to rescue us.

When we couldn't take any more from the heat and the sun, we jumped into the water."

The thing with her boyfriend did not end there.

"

We saw each other when he passed by the door of my house,

I saw him from the roof. On the beach we also saw each other from afar and if there was no one from my family he would come over and we would talk for a while,

but with the precaution of always looking towards back in case someone came.

One day I stayed in a shadow to wait for him to pass. Hours passed and he didn't come. I was crazy to see him, but it took so long that I fell asleep face down on the towel. The sun went down moving and it burned my legs. They burned! What a pain! I still remember the blisters! I couldn't even sit down, I even had to take medication to relieve the symptoms. A horror."

The summer ended and Charo went to Seville.

He was studying there and they continued the relationship for about another year.

"That I remember, since the following summer I already had another boyfriend in Punta Umbría," says the singer.

"My boyfriend from the summer of '77 was studying Law, but even so, my family did not like him as a person and

considered him a crazy head and a hummingbird

, they did the impossible for me to forget about him. Throughout that winter we saw each other, but he He

ended up leaving me.

We never saw each other again.

A few years ago he asked me for friendship on Facebook, but I didn't accept him. I had a bad time, but not that much. I do remember that he later went out with a cousin of mine who is older than me (...)" .

That summer of 1977, Charo already knew that she was going to be an artist.

"I started acting in Andalusia when I was 14 years old. I was known in the area. I studied dramatic art in Seville. My aunt Loli [apart from her aunt Juanita, a well-known folkloric artist] was also an artist, a great comedian. When she met her husband Eduardo He left everything.

Actually, at home we were all a bit of an artist."

Charo has many projects on the table, many of them awaiting their premiere.

"I start shooting

the film

Intersex

in Andalusia in August , a story that aims to make the public aware of the reality of intersex people."

Also about to be released is the latest film by Chus Gutiérrez,

De Caperucita a Loba

, in which he participated, and which is based on a play written by Marta González de Vega.

"My spoiled child is a short film directed by Santiago Requejo, Votamos.

We were nominated for the Goya. We have already won more than 40 national and international awards, recently they just awarded us one in Canada.

It is a short film that deals with mental health and the little empathy and tolerance

that we show towards the mentally ill. This short is giving us a lot of satisfaction".

As for music, he is recording a new album.

And the rest of the time he has, he dedicates to his two children, now of legal age.

"I'm not a grandmother yet.

Arturo, the oldest, has a degree in biology and the youngest in law, they work together in a business of sports and rehabilitation machines and they are doing very well. I'm alone now, without a partner, divinely."

She wouldn't go back to

Survivors

or anything like that.

"I don't feel like it," she ditches.

You don't need it either.

Work is plenty for her and her children are there for whatever she needs.

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