Carmen Jara, copla singer and famous radio collaborator, dies

• Books The generous Encarna Sánchez spent a lot on gifts to her wives and left the rest to an heiress with whom she did not speak

As a child,

had a

This is attested to by the photographic studio prints in which she posed with her brother or the portrait that was made of her while she was studying at the Nuestra Señora de la Cinta school in

where she was always a

Art began to run through her veins, perhaps, before its time.

But she knew how to take advantage.

One of her most beloved possessions was

and that she would put on at the slightest opportunity to delight, with her natural grace, family and friends.

Carmen's two great passions were

for which she broke her back, taking

her shows of fandangos, coplas and boleros to

Like all artists from an arid and poor Andalusia, her beginnings in her artistic world were

that she overcame with grace.

She didn't have it easy, but she clung to destiny to fulfill

In those 50s he already

the stage with what would be one of the great divos of the song,

.

They both went from town to town

to get a few pennies.

If they were lucky, they each received up to 600.

In Libertad Digital, the journalist Manuel Román recalls a quote by the artist from Linares about his close friend and

-in-law : "It was at the academy of

where we met, on the Madrid slope of Santo Domingo

Mia and the whole family. Her sister, Soledad Jara, later married my manager, Paco Gordillo."

This became

Spanish representative.

Carmen published

a decade after the creation of the Belter label, where the songs

or

Since then, her name has been inscribed in golden letters in the second half of the 20th century in the cultural field.

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Over the years he shared the stage with

and even Doña

wanted him to perform in February 1969 at the Teatro Apolo in Valencia in the presentation of his daughter Conchita as a major fallera.

never went unnoticed, especially since in many images she appears

as if she were straight out of Romero de Torres's paintings.

He also stood out for

in an altruistic way, such as the Leper Association, which at that time was actively presided over by the Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón.

In a matter of love, it can be said that

that of former boxer

who shortly after chose the Jury to share his life until their love ran out.

Neither of them ever clarified the reason for that break.

when Raquel Mosquera whined on television that Carrasco had been her great love, on the program esRadio by Federico Jiménez Losantos she commented that "so much so that you say that Pedro sang to you

, I tell you that this is a very popular fandango from Huelva and,

then to the Jury and then you came rebounding".

Carmen loved

It is in this facet where she also

especially as a result of her participation in the popular gathering

of the program

, by Encarna Sánchez that she shared with

And in recent years, she collaborated on the

program in

One of his last statements was made for the recently published book

(The sphere of books), by Pedro Pérez and Juan Luis Galiacho.

Retired from public life a few months ago,

to face the serious illness that was taking her by leaps and bounds.

She was

with her brother.

She with the unique grace of her entertained the old people with a multitude of

of a dream life.

She has died two weeks before her

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