Rocio Jurado

María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado, known as Rocío Jurado (Chipiona, Cádiz, September 18, 1944 - La Moraleja, Alcobendas, Madrid, 1 June 2006) was a Spanish singer and actress, who specialized in musical genres such as the Andalusian copla and flamenco, as well as in the romantic ballad and the bolero, a facet with which she achieved relevance in Spain and Latin America.

Biography

Childhood and youth

He was born at number 115 Calle Larga in Chipiona (Cádiz), into a middle-class family. His father, Fernando Mohedano Crespo, was a shoemaker and flamenco singer in his spare time; Her mother, Rosario Jurado Bernal, was a housewife and an amateur singer of Spanish music. He had two younger siblings, Gloria (1950) and Amador (1953), and seven nephews, Fernando, Rosario, Salvador and Amador (Amador's children) and María Eugenia, Gloria and Rocío (Gloria's daughters).^{[citation required]}

At home he learned to love music; The first presentation of her in public was made at the age of eight, in a play of hers at her Colegio de La Divina Pastora. She also learned to work hard from the age of fifteen, since after the premature death of her father, she had to support the family economy that had been affected. She sang at masses, participated in festivals at her school, worked as a shoemaker, fruit picker and still had time to appear in Radio Sevilla contests. ^{[citation needed ]}

Rocío was called The prize girl, since she won all the prizes from the radio stations in which she participated. In 1958, she received her first prize on Radio Sevilla, at the Álvarez Quintero theater, which consisted of 200 pesetas, a bottle of soda and a pair of socks, as she herself confessed to a gossip magazine. Hand in hand with her mother, she traveled to Madrid, without having reached the age of majority, where a friend of hers introduced her to La Niña de los Peines and the maestro Manolo Caracol. However, her unstoppable artistic career did not begin until her first meeting with singer Pastora Imperio. ^{[citation needed ]}

Pastora Imperio hired Rocío for the tablao she ran, El Duende, one of the first tablaos from the era. Being a minor, she had to wear clothes that made her look older so as not to attract the attention of the authorities. Her partner, the Málaga-born cantaora and bailaora Cañeta de Málaga, who had also come to Madrid while still young to seek her fortune with her art and was hired by El Duende, recalls in an interview how the young Rocío sang «his alegrías, his tientos and his things from La Piquer». Ella Rocío had always said that she was born in 1944 since when she came to Madrid to sing in 1960 she was a minor. Until she was sixteen she couldn't sing in tablaos, for this reason she falsified her date of birth, adding two more years and saying that she was born in 1944 instead of 1946. ^{[ citation required ]}

In 1967, Rocío participated in the Lady Europa beauty pageant, placing second, ahead of future actress Edwige Fenech.^{[citation needed]}

Rocío was the first to replace the typical ruffled and polka-dot dress of the tonadilleras with elegant evening gowns and an international appearance, but she never forgot her origins.

Artistic Life

Coal premiered by Rocío Jurado at Gala Expo 92 held at the Teatro de la Maestranza in April 1991, in Seville.

Professionally, Rocío Jurado stood out with a mostly copla repertoire, a genre that was beginning to lose its validity and that she revitalized with energetic performances, both in voice and stage presence.

Already popular in the 1960s and early 1970s, partly due to some appearances as an actress on television and in movies such as in the series Curro Jiménez, Rocío made the leap to international star status by leaning to a melodic repertoire, of a romantic ballad, with orchestral instrumentation and a personal image (make-up, hairdressing and wardrobe) to the European taste. Rocío alternated the bata de cola with sumptuous evening dresses, sometimes highly commented on for her audacity. From the seventies and eighties are his most unmistakable hits: "Si amanece", "Como una ola", "Lo siento mi amor", "Señora& #34;, "As I love you", "That man", "Love broke us", "Dont you go away", "Muera el amor", "Vibro"... Many of them due to Manuel Alejandro and recorded by José Antonio Álvarez Alija.

Rocío's long-standing celebrity lies in romantic songs rather than in her purely Spanish folkloric side. She was famous for these ballads in Spanish America as well, where she perhaps remained in fashion for longer than in Spain, which explains her later experiments with Mexican and Caribbean rhythms: "Me ha dicho la luna", &# 34;Te cambio mi bulería"... He recorded duets with famous figures from that continent: with José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" the song "Friend love" and with Ana Gabriel the ambiguous song "Amor callado". In 1990 she participated in a show of tribute to Lola Flores in Miami, with which she recorded the duet & # 34; Dejándonos la piel & # 34;.

However, the romantic successes of international scope did not distance Rocío from her most Andalusian facet. Rocío Jurado's most forceful statement in this sense would come years later when she was already an outstanding interpreter of the copla and ballads. In 1982 she applied her extraordinary talents to flamenco singing in a double LP with the collaboration of two top figures of this genre: the guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar and the singer Juan Peña & # 34; Lebrijano & # 34;. Entitled Come and follow me , she discovered that the famous singer also moved with ease along the paths of flamenco. Despite an already perfectly developed lyrical saying, the multifaceted artist demonstrates her knowledge and her compás in a series of rigorously traditional cantes and interpreted with great affection. The filmmaker Carlos Saura took note and used the voice of Rocío in two feature films: El amor brujo with Cristina Hoyos in 1986 and Sevillanas in 1992 where she interprets alongside figures as relevant in the flamenco scene such as Paco de Lucía, Camarón de la Isla, Tomatito, Lola Flores, Manuela Carrasco or Matilde Coral among many others.

Rocío Jurado was one of the protagonists of the show Azabache, an Andalusian copla musical that she performed for the Universal Exposition of 1992 (Expo Seville).

In the 1998 edition of the Festival de Jerez dedicated to flamenco dancing, the Teatro Villamarta had to hang the "sold out" sign for Rocío's gala weeks before any other show. A one-person tribute to the singer came with Fernanda de Utrera's bulerías adaptation of "Se nos rompó el amor", a song by Manuel Alejandro made popular by Rocío.

The voice of Rocío Jurado was recognized internationally. Proof of this is the award for Best Female Voice of the XX century, which was awarded to her in 2000 in the city of New York by a group of entertainment journalists. In addition, in 1985 he came to sing at the White House for the -at that time- president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. He maintained such fame that his death deserved an article on the Billboard website. On April 2, 1988, Rocío Jurado received the América Award for Best Latin Voice. The event took place at Caesars Palace Casino in Las Vegas.

In 2011, Antena 3 announced the filming of a miniseries on the life of Rocío Jurado with the title Como alas al viento. It was fully recorded in 2013 and, after several changes in the Antena 3 programming, it was finally broadcast for the first time on the "FlixOlé" platform.

Illness and fleeting reappearance

In August 2004, she underwent a complicated operation at the Montepríncipe Hospital in Madrid and later, on September 17, 2004, she would announce that she had pancreatic cancer at a press conference. In June 2005, the XIV Yerbabuena Festival in Las Cabezas de San Juan (Seville) was dedicated to her. With her lifelong friend, Juan Peña & # 34; El Lebrijano & # 34; Next to her, Rocío Jurado emotionally accepted the award that she gave to her father and to all the fans.

After more than a year of professional inactivity, Rocío reappeared in December 2005 with the TVE special Rocío...siempre, with an unexpected display that demonstrated her state of form. The show, recorded in two sessions, included a part of folk singing and another with her famous ballads and her other melodic hits. Some songs she sang as a duet with the greatest of Hispanic music: Raphael, Mónica Naranjo, Paulina Rubio, David Bisbal, Chayanne and Malú, among others.

In January 2006, Rocío Jurado was admitted to the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas, to undergo a check-up and minor surgery. An allergic reaction to one of the medicines he was given led him to enter the Intensive Care Unit a couple of times, delaying his return to Spain until the end of March 2006. The same day Rocío Jurado returned to Spain, the Government awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit at Work, of which he was notified immediately when he stepped on land.

Death

Mausoleum of the artist in Chipiona, Cadiz.

On June 1, 2006, he died at quarter past five in the morning at his home in the La Moraleja urbanization, Alcobendas, near Madrid. He died of pancreatic cancer, at the age of sixty-one, as reported at the gates of the family residence at 6 in the morning by his brother and his manager, Amador Mohedano Jurado. His body was transferred to the Cultural Center of the Villa in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid, where a burning chapel was installed for his public wake. Finally his body was transferred to Chipiona where more than 20,000 people were arriving throughout the early morning of June 2 to say goodbye. There his remains rest in peace in the San José cemetery.

She was always so closely linked to the world of bullfighting, through her second husband and through the songs she sang, that on the day of her burial in the Las Ventas bullring, a minute of silence was observed in her memory after the paseíllo That day the penultimate bullfight of the San Isidro fair was celebrated and the right-handers who were fighting that afternoon, Javier Conde, Uceda Leal and Andrés Palacios, wore black bracelets as a sign of mourning for her death.

Up to 3,000 people gathered at the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid for the funeral held on June 14, 2006.

The mayor of her homeland, Chipiona, has built a mausoleum in her honor, in the municipal cemetery where she was buried.

Since 2007, the "International Day of Rocío Jurado" which is attended by people from all over the world, family, friends and admirers of the artist from Chipiona. A mass and a floral offering are some of the acts that are organized that day in homage to Rocío Jurado.

Private life

She was romantically linked to the Valencian businessman Enrique García Vernetta, from whom she separated after twelve years of relationship. On May 21, 1976, she married boxer Pedro Carrasco at the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Regla, wearing a tailed gown, comb and ruffles. The couple only had one daughter, Rocío Carrasco Mohedano. In private, she once recognized that she did not have enough time to dedicate herself to being a mother; her long tours of America and her Europe kept her away from her daughter longer than she would have liked. After her divorce in July 1989, and after obtaining the annulment of the marriage, Rocío Jurado married the bullfighter José Ortega Cano on February 17, 1995 at the farm owned by her, Dehesa Yerbabuena, in front of more than 2,300 guests.. The ceremony was broadcast live (and deferred) by all television networks. At the end of 1999, the couple adopted two Colombian children, José Fernando and Gloria Camila, who were later presented in public through a report in Hola! magazine.

Discography

• Process to a Star (1966)
• My friend (1969)
• A keyword (1971)
• I am from Spain (1973)
• Gypsies (1974)
• Rocío (1975)
• Love sailor (1976)
• You're not leaving (1976)
• Don't warn me. /Columbia (1976)
• Fandangos de Isla Cristina (1976)
• Rocío Interprets Alberto Bourbon (1976)
• Don Golondón (1978)
• From now on (1978) ESP: Gold (50 000 copies)
• By right (1979)
• Song with mariachi (Canta to Mexico) (1979)
• Madam ESP (1979) Platinum (100 000 copies)
• Songs of Spain ESP (1981): Gold (50 000 copies)
• Come and follow me. (1982)
• Like a wave (1982) ESP: Gold (50 000 copies)
• And yet I love you (Canciones de España 2) (1983)
• From inside (1984)
• Sigh of love (1986)
• The brute love (1986)
• Paloma brava ESP (1985): Gold (50 000 copies)
• Where are you love? (1987) ESP: Gold (50 000 copies)
• Songs of Spain...to my dear Rafael de León (Unpublished Songs) (1988)
• Starting point ESP (1989): Gold (50 000 copies)
• Until the last drop ESP (1989): Gold (50 000 copies)
• New Christmas (1990)
• White moon (1990) ESP: Gold (50 000 copies)
• Sevilla (1991)
• The Lola goes to the ports (1993)
• Like wings in the wind (1993)
• Word of honor (1994) ESP: Gold (50 000 copies)
• With my five senses (1998) ESP: Gold (50 000 copies)
• The biggest (2001) ESP: Platinum (100 000 copies)
• Yerbabuena and nopal (2003)
• Lady (full anthology) (2006) ESP: Gold (40 000 copies)
• Rocío Siempre (2006) ESP: Platinum (80 000 copies)
• Flamenco (2007) ESP: Gold (40 000 copies)
• The copla (2007)
• 30 songs of love (2007)
• Unique (2009)

EP

• Villancicos (1962)
• In the most sailboat (1962)
• The guerrillas (1962)
• Pink and air (1962)
• Saetas (1962)
• What happens to me with you (1963)
• Why are you wearing gold? (1963)
• The majors are coming. (1963)
• Rocío (1964)
• Hundreds of sight that pulls (1964)
• Tiny (1965)
• Gloria Ramírez (1965)
• Toro manso (1965)
• Fandangos de Isla Cristina (1966)
• Don't call me Dolores. (1966)
• Hundreds of your black eyes (1966)
• Carmen de España (1967)
• Gold jail (1967)
• Moreno and well seemed (1967)
• Forget the bread, baker (1967)
• Even if I give you the same (1968)
• Gypsies (1968)
• My friend (1968)
• Don't warn me. (1968)
• The sun is a tourist (1969)

Filmography

National

International

• The prodigious shoemaker (Argentina)
• From Spain to Heaven (Argentina)
• Lola Montes (Argentina)
• Those times (Argentina), candidate for the Martin Fierro Award

Awards

In Spain

• Premio Nacional al cante Flamenco de Jerez de la Frontera - (Premio que logrado con 15 años).
• Trophy Al Andalus.
• Leading the year with Montserrat Caballé, in the Luis Del Olmo (1982).
• Spanish National Radio named it "The most popular Andalusian of the year", as well as "The best interpreter". This last recognition was due to the success of his song "I am afraid", which for several months occupied the first positions of the Spanish song's success lists.
• Lady Spain 1967.
• Predilecta daughter of Chipiona in 1968.
• Gold Parra of the historic Moscatel Festival (1968).
• In 1984, it was awarded by the City of Chipiona the Gold Merit to the Tourist Merit.
• Andaluza Universal (1984).
• Medalla de Plata de Andalucía (1986).
• In 1986, he received a Placa Empresa De Castilla, for beating the ticket office record both in public assistance and in collection, at the Monumental Theatre of Madrid, with his series of recitals 'Rocío Jurado Brava'.
• ABC Gold Prize (1987).
• In 1991 he received the lemon prize and years later in 1994 he received the orange, for his good relationship with the press, being to date the only person who has both.
• In 1992 at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, he received the Humanity Award, awarded by ASPACE (Spanish Confederation of Federations and Associations of Attention to People with Cerebral Palsy and Afines).
• In 1995, he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts by Juan Carlos I, King of Spain.
• Ambassador of Cadiz (1996).
• In 1999, he received the prize 'Pimiento de Oro' City of Murcia.
• In 1999, she is named Hija Predilecta of the province of Cadiz.
• Predilect daughter of Chiclana (2001).
• Since July 2002, an honorary member of the Ibero-American Arts Forum.
• Shanghai Prize for its professional career (2004).
• Gold Star of the Press (2004).
• Premio yerbabuena de plata (2005).
• Adoptive daughter of the City of Cadiz (2006).
• Gold Medal to the Work Merit (2006).
• Adoptive daughter of the province of Seville (2007).
• Estrella Music Award for the career of Rocío Jurado - Tenerife - (2010).
• Homenaje, in 2018, in the fourth edition of the Radiolé Awards of the PRISA Group chain, when 12 years of his death are fulfilled. The award in memorian the little daughter, Gloria Camila Ortega.

In America

• Rocío Jurado is named the Best Female Voice of the CenturyXX. - "The Voice of the Millennium Award" in 2000 in New York City.
• Rocío Jurado has been one of the most awarded foreign artists by the ACE, Association of Foreign Chronicles, has been Premied as:

Best international show (1988).

Best international interpreter (1982).

Best female interpreter (1984).

Best album of the year. Premied on two occasions, by the albums:

Madam.

Paloma brava.

Song of the year, on different occasions by the topics:

"Miss."

"Like a wave."

"Why did you kiss me?"

"We broke love."

Extraordinary Prize for Distinction and Merit in 1989.

Recognition of artistic career (1989).

• In 1985 he came to sing at the White House, for the then president of the United States, Ronald Reagan and later would do the same with George W. Bush.
• 'Guaicapuro de Oro' of Venezuela (1985).
• In 1986, she was named queen of the Miami carnival.
• In 1987 she received the 'Quijote de Oro' to the artist who had the closest links between the Old and the New Continent.
• In 1988, for the first time a Spanish-speaking artist is rewarded with the trophy "AMÉRICA" This award had been vetoed for Hispanics, this award was delivered in Las Vegas (Nevada) at the Caesar Palace hotel. Rocío broke schematics and opened the doors to all the Spanish-speaking artists with this award that was given to him thanks to some apotheosic recitals that Rocío offered in that room, so much so that he was hired for several more weeks with absolute fullness.
• International artist of the year in Puerto Rico (3 times).
• International artist of the Dominican Republic (2 times).
• In 1990 he was awarded a Star on 8th Street in Miami.
• Super Q Award to the artist of the Decade (1990).
• Predilect daughter of Miami (1991).
• The day of Rocío Jurado is declared in the city that falls on the 19th of October.
• Hispanic singer of the decade in Miami (1991).
• In 1992 he received the “Applause 92” Award in Miami.
• 'The Great Apple' New York Award (2001).
• Professional career in New York (2003).
• In 2003, he received an award in recognition of his artistic work in Miami at the OPI 2003 award.

Tributes

At the beginning of 2022, Rocío Carrasco, daughter of Rocío Jurado, in collaboration with Green Cow Music organized the charity concert Mujeres cantan a Rocío Jurado coinciding with International Women's Day, and bringing together different female personalities from the world of music. music, television, literature and the performing arts of Spain. Among them: Pastora Soler, Rigoberta Bandini, Mercedes Milá, Tanxugueiras, Ana Guerra, Lorena Gómez, Edurne, Beatriz Luengo, Carlota Corredera, Melani Olivares, Sole Giménez or Noemí Casquet, among others. The concert is held in favor of equality education and the fight against gender violence.

In May there was a second concert, this time held at the Cartuja Center CITE in Seville.