An unlikely biography of carmen sevilla could be titled The thousand lives of Kola’s daughter (That was the nickname of his father, the lyricist José García Padilla). Like all the myths of popular culture, the gift of ubiquity belonged to her, of constant presence in any of the imaginations of the generation from the 50s to the present day.
From the dictatorship to the Transition through Mediaset; from Mexico, France and the United States to the Spain that called itself eternal; from cinema to copla without forgetting the Telecoupon, neighborhood cinema or, much further back, the Phillips ad; from the most evident folklore to the threat of breaking with almost everything that the director Eloy de la Iglesia rehearsed in the 70s; from Carmen to Seville, carmen sevilla it was always there for more than half a century.
Carmen Sevilla has died this Tuesday in Madrid at the age of 92. On Monday she was admitted. The news of her hospitalization barely left room for the irremediable. Suffering from Alzheimer’s since 2009, The actress lived away from the noise of things for eight years.
He has died and his legacy seems both eternal and, why not, in a country as prone to forgetfulness as this one, something unfair. There will be someone who only remembers her for her phrases, easily convertible into trending topic. And yet, she was so much more, she was everything. She and sarah montiel they were perhaps the first two modern and world stars that our cinema was capable of.
The biography doubts about the year of birth. They say that it was in 1930 when it really seems that it was a little later, 12 months later, due to the age required to work.