Rocío Jurado

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Mohedano and the second or maternal family name is Jurado.
Rocío Jurado
Birth name María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado
Also known as La más grande (The Greatest)
Born 18 September 1946
Chipiona, Andalucia, Spain
Died 1 June 2006 (aged 59)
Madrid, Spain
Genres Copla, Spanish Chanson (Canción española)
Occupation(s) Singer, actress
Years active 1950–2006

María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈθi.o xuˈɾaðo], born 18 September 1944 – died 1 June 2006) was a Spanish singer and actress.[1] She was born in Chipiona, Cádiz and nicknamed "La más grande" ("The Greatest").

She was once married to boxer Pedro Carrasco, with whom she had a daughter, Rocío Carrasco. Divorced, she married bullfighter José Ortega Cano,[2] and they adopted two children, Gloria Camila Ortega Mohedano and José Fernando Ortega Mohedano.[3][4][5]

Childhood and youth

She was born to an artisanal family in 1944. Her father, Fernando Mohedano, was a shoemaker and flamenco singer in his spare time; her mother, Rosario Jurado, was a housewife and amateur performer of Spanish music.

At home, Rocío learned to love music; her first public performance was at the age of eight, in a work at Colegio La Divina Pastora. After her father's death, she helped the precarious family finances. She worked as a shoemaker and as a fruit picker, and still had time to show up to Radio Sevilla contests. She came to be known as the "The Girl of the Awards" after winning every radio-station contest she entered. A friend of her mother introduced her to teacher Manolo Caracol.

Marriages

On 21 May 1976, she married boxer Pedro Carrasco. The couple had a daughter, Rocío Carrasco Mohedano.[6] After their divorce in July 1989, and getting an annulment, Jurado married bullfighter José Ortega Cano on 17 February 1995 at "Dehesa Yerbabuena" with more than 1,600 guests. In late 1999, the couple adopted two children in Colombia, José Fernando Ortega Mohedano, and Gloria Camila Ortega Mohedano.[3]

Illness and death

In 2004, Jurado was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and treated in Houston, Texas.[2][6] In April 2006, she was treated for acute liver failure in a hospital in Madrid. On 26 May 2006, Spain's Culture Minister Carmen Calvo announced that Jurado had suffered a stroke, an assertion denied by Jurado's personal physician as well as her own brother/manager, Amador Mohedano.[7]

On 1 June 2006 she died, aged 61, at 5:15 a.m. at her home in La Moraleja Alcobendas, Madrid. Her body was taken to the Centro Cultural de la Villa in the Plaza de Colón in a Madrid chapel for a public viewing. Eventually her body was transferred to her native Chipiona, where it remains in the local cemetery of San José.[8]

Discography

Filmography

Awards

External links

References

  1. ↑ Obituary, elmundo.es; accessed 18 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Rocío Jurado confiesa que tuvo cáncer y anuncia su recuperación". El Mundo. 17 September 2004. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Rocio Jurado - Lo mas grande". Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Jose Fernando, el hijo descarriado". ABC. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "La herencia maldita de Rocío Jurado". AB. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Rocío Jurado regresa a España tras dos meses en Houston y es ingresada en una clínica madrileña". El Mundo. 24 March 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  7. ↑ Rocío Jurado's brother denies she died of a stroke, canada.com; accessed 18 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Muere Rocío Jurado en su casa de Madrid". El Mundo. 1 June 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
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