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34-570: María del Rocío Mohedano Jurado ( Spanish pronunciation: [roˈθi.o xuˈɾaðo] , 18 September 1943 – 1 June 2006), better known as Rocío Jurado , was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona ( Cádiz ) and nicknamed "La más grande" ("The Greatest"). In 2000 in New York City , she won the prize "La voz del Milenio" for best female voice of the 20th century. Rocío Jurado sold more than 16 million records, making her one of

68-624: A dangerous place for shipping and the opening of a navigable river, the Guadalquivir. Chipiona takes its name from the Roman Consul Caepion. This area has also been identified as the site of the legendary Ars Gerionis, the tomb of Geryon, which stood at the end of a narrow cape that jutted into the sea, probably in what is now a reef known as the Stone of Salmedina, near Salmedina, or just Salmedina. These claims are based solely on

102-504: A double LP with the collaboration of two main figures of this genre: the guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar and the singer Juan Peña "Lebrijano". Titled Ven & Sígueme , she discovered that the famous singer also moved with ease on the roads of Cante jondo. In spite of an already well-developed lyric, the multifaceted artist demonstrates her knowledge and her compass in a series of rigorously traditional folk singing and interpreted with great affection. The filmmaker Carlos Saura took notice and used

136-533: A high-risk surgery at the Montepríncipe Hospital ( Madrid ). Later on 17 September, she would announce at a press conference that she had pancreatic cancer. In June 2005, the XIV "Festival de la Yerbabuena" was dedicated to her at Las Cabezas de San Juan, a village from Seville . She accepted with her childhood friend Juan Peña, " El Lebrijano ," the award which was given to her father. After more than

170-500: A show of tribute to Lola Flores in Miami, in which she recorded the duet "Dejándonos la piel".  Nevertheless, the romantic successes of international reach did not remove Rocío from its more Andalusian facet. The most convincing declaration of Rocío Jurado in this sense would arrive years later when already she was an outstanding interpreter of the copla and ballads. In 1982 she applied her extraordinary talents to flamenco singing in

204-548: A year of professional inactivity, Rocío re-appeared in December 2005, with a special programme in the Spanish Public Television ( TVE ) called Rocío, siempre , where she demonstrated her condition. The spectacle, which was filmed in two different sessions included an important part dedicated to the folkloric music and the other to her famous ballads and her other hits. She sang in duet some of the songs with

238-641: Is also home to the lighthouse Punta del Perro . The town is also well known for several varieties of Moscatel . According to the geographers Strabo (Strabo, III, 1, 9) and Pomponius Mela (Mela, III, 4), of Ancient Greece and Rome respectively, a lighthouse existed at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River called Turris Caepionis. This was probably because it was built on the orders of the Roman Consul Quintus Servilius Caepion or his successors. The lighthouse marked

272-711: The Universal Exposition of Seville in 1992 (Expo '92). In 1998, on the occasion of the Festival of Jerez de la Frontera dedicated to flamenco dancing, the Theatre Villamarta had to announce that they were sold out for the Rocío's gala weeks before the spectacle and before any other spectacles. An homage to the singer was made with the adaptation using "bulerías", a Flamenco variety of the song "Se nos rompió el amor" made by Fernando de Utrera. This song

306-721: The White House . She was so popular that her death merited an article in the Billboard website. On 2 April 1988, Rocío received the award "América", which recognised the Best Latin Voice. The ceremony took place at the Caesars Palace Casino ( Las Vegas ). In 2011, the Spanish media group Antena 3 released a TV Movie (mini series) about Rocío's life titled Como alas al viento . In August 2004, she had

340-624: The 60's and early 70's, in part on account of some appearances as an actress in television and film as in the Curro Jiménez series, Rocío made the leap to international stardom by adopting a melodic repertoire of romantic ballad  with orchestral instruments and a personal image (make-up, hairdressing and costumes) in accordance with the European style. Rocío alternated the flamenco tailed dress (bata de cola) with sumptuous evening dresses, sometimes highly commented on for their audacity. In

374-401: The 70's and 80's Rocío recorded her most unmistakable successes: "Como una ola", "Señora", "Como yo te amo", "Ese hombre", "Se nos rompió el amor", "A que no te vas", "Muera el amor", "Vibro"... Many of them composed by Manuel Alejandro and recorded by José Antonio Álvarez Alija. The prolonged celebrity of Rocío lies in the romantic songs rather than in its purely Andalusian folkloric facet. She

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408-663: The Sanctuary Virgen de Regla, she wore a traditional costume with a comb and flounces. They only had one daughter, Rocío Carrasco Mohedano. In private, she sometimes recognized that she did not have time to dedicate to her daughter; she had long tours in Latin America and Europe which separated her from her daughter. After she was divorced in July 1989 and after obtaining the marriage annulment, Rocío married bullfighter José Ortega Cano on 17 February 1995 at her house in

442-570: The Wise. In 1297, King Ferdinand IV granted Guzman el Bueno, founder of the House of Medina Sidonia, the Lordship of Sanlúcar, to which Chipiona belonged. In 1303 the eldest daughter of Guzman el Bueno and Maria Alonso Coronel, Isabel Perez de Guzman, Fernan married Ponce de León, receiving as a dowry the towns of Rota and Chipiona, thereby becoming independent both of the Lordship of Sanlúcar and joining

476-520: The best-selling Spanish female singers. She received 5 platinum and 30 gold discs. Rocío Jurado was born on Calvo Soto Street #11, Chipiona ( Cádiz ) in Andalusia , Spain. Her father, Fernando Mohedano Crespo (died at 36 years old), was a shoemaker and flamenco singer in his spare time; her mother, Rocío Jurado Bernal (died at 52 years old because of pancreatic cancer), was housewife and amateur performer of Andalusian traditional music . Rocío Jurado

510-575: The convent, were overwhelmed by a gunner, who was in it (which did not suffer any damage, having invoked the patronage of Our Holy Image), and fell upon the walls of the convent, and running for their flooded trenches surrounded the Church and its 2 sides to enter through the front door of the Farm, looking to the East. Surprised by this unanticipated boost the ocean, some religious who were outside, and within

544-490: The country Dehesa Yerbabuena, in front of over 2300 guests. The ceremony was broadcast live (and prerecorded) on the main television channels on country. At the end of 1999, the couple adopted two Colombian children, José Fernando and Gloria Camila, who were presented in public in the Spanish magazine ¡Hola! . In Spain Chipiona It is the town of birth of singer Rocío Jurado and where her body now rests. Chipiona

578-782: The evidence of the literature and Roman archaeological findings dating from the second century B.C. Legend relates that the disciples of St. Augustine in Africa, fleeing the invasion of the Vandals, came by sea to Chipiona with the image of the Virgin of Regla. Tombstones have been found near the Shrine of Our Lady of Regla from the time of the Visigoths. After the islamization of the Iberian Peninsula in 711, according to tradition,

612-549: The first of the tablaos period. Being a minor, she had to wear clothes that made her appear older to avoid drawing the attention of the authorities. Her workmate, the flamenco singer and dancer Cañeta de Málaga, who had also arrived in Madrid under age to seek her art and was hired in El Duende, recalls in an interview how the young Rocío sang "sus alegrías , sus tientos y sus cosas de la Piquer ". Rocío had always said that she

646-622: The government gave her an award for her work merits (Medalla al Mérito en el Trabajo), which was announced to her once she landed in Spain. On 1 June 2006, at 4:15 am, Jurado died surrounded by her close relatives in her house in La Moraleja , an affluent residential area located in the municipality of Alcobendas , a northern suburb of Madrid. The cause of death was the pancreatic cancer she had been struggling with. Her brother and manager, Amador Mohedano Jurado, announced her death in front of

680-477: The hermits hid the image in a cistern about thirty paces from the citadel, now a monastery. The picture remained hidden until a member of the Order of St. Augustine found it in the 14th century, according to legend, following a revelation from heaven. A Shrine to Our Lady of Regla was built around the cistern. In 1251 Chipiona was conquered by King Ferdinand III, and again more definitively in 1264 by his son Alfonso X

714-454: The morning it was a serene and peaceful day, still and calm sea, a slight north wind. But, being as 10am, being this Community as a high choir solemnly singing the Terce, it began to feel that the choir, and the church with strange swaying motion and this, as visibly noticeable, that lectern, church lamps, candlesticks from the altar, and all the temple shook and moved like a crib, from one side to

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748-657: The most famous Spanish singers: Raphael , Mónica Naranjo , Paulina Rubio , David Bisbal , Malú and others. In January 2006, Rocío Jurado was hospitalized in the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston ( Texas ), for a check-up and to have a small surgery. An allergic reaction to one of the medicines provoked her hospitalization in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) twice, which delayed her return to Spain until March 2006. The same day she returned to Spain,

782-575: The other, as viewed from the North to the South. We were warned that this was a terrible earthquake, and although it caused a corresponding fright in everybody, and we had the suspicion that the whole building, which [is] of stone, would collapse over us all, we lacked the freedom to leave the choir, all linked by the same superior impulse, and full of sure confidence in Patronage of Our Holy Image, which

816-590: The possessions of the Ponce de León family, descendent of the Arcos House. In 1755, Chipiona was severely hit by the tsunami that was caused by the Andalusian and Portuguese Atlantic coast Lisbon earthquake. The effects of the tsunami came to town about an hour after the earthquake, killing four people and leaving flooded streets and beaches, estimating the actual damage to 238 815. The image of Christ of Mercy

850-467: The precarious family finances. She worked as a shoemaker and as a fruit picker, and still had time to show up at Radio Sevilla contests. She came to be known as "The Girl of the Awards" after winning every radio station contest she entered. A friend of her mother introduced her to Manolo Caracol, her teacher. Pastora Imperio immediately hired Rocío for the tablao (flamenco stage) she ran: El Duende, one of

884-690: The residence at 6 o’clock in the morning. Her body was transferred to the Centro Cultural de la Villa at Plaza de Colón in central Madrid, where the funeral chapel was visited by over 20,000 individuals. Finally, her body was transferred to Chipiona and buried at the local San José cemetery, where a mausoleum was built in her honour. Rocío was the first main Spanish celebrity to abandon the use of typical traditional clothes and replace them with clothes from great international high couturiers and stylists, although she never forgot her origins. On 21 May 1976, when she married Spanish boxer Pedro Carrasco at

918-404: The threatening havoc with such happiness that there is not the least harm experienced in all areas of the convent. Cantóse conventual Mass without the least suspicion, and concluded, was sung the sixth hour on the end of it, it would be like the 11 and fourth, there was a terrible roar of the sea, and found to be elevated both waves, violently throwing water on said bastion, and on the cliffs of

952-580: The voice of Rocío in two feature films: El amor brujo with Cristina Hoyos in 1986 and Sevillanas in 1992 where she plays with such important figures in the flamenco world 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 spectacle Azabache , a musical based on Andalusian copla in which she took part with other artists specialized in this genre, such as Nati Mistral , Juanita Reina , Imperio Argentina and María Vidal. They released this spectacle during

986-492: Was born in 1944 because when she arrived in Madrid to sing in 1960 she was a minor. Until she was 16 she could not sing in the tablaos, so she falsified her date of birth, adding two more years by saying that she was born in 1944 instead of 1946. Professionally, Rocío Jurado emerged with a repertoire mostly of copla , an Andalusian traditional genre that was beginning to lose force which she revitalized with energetic performances, as much in voice as in stage presence. Popular in

1020-539: Was clear to the eye on her majestic throne. At that point we bowed our knees, and straining our devotion, we continued with the canonical time more consistently. The tremor would last for ten to twelve minutes, knowing the land had returned to be quiet, and natural stillness, the Community started to take their seats, each recognising the Divine Mercy, and the patronage of Holy Mary of Rule, Our Lady, we escaped

1054-496: Was famous for these ballads also in Hispano-America, where perhaps she remained in fashion for longer than in Spain, which explains her later scores with Mexican and Caribbean rhythms: "Me ha dicho la luna", "Te cambio mi bulería"...She recorded duets with famous figures from that continent: with José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" the song "Amigo amor" and with Ana Gabriel the ambiguous song "Amor silencio". In 1990 participated in

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1088-650: Was originally composed by Manuel Alejandro but it was Rocío who had made it popular. Rocío's voice was recognised internationally. She was awarded with the Best Female Voice of the 20th century in 2000. This award was conceded in 2000 in New York City by a group of journalists of the spectacle. In addition, in 1985, she sang for the President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan in

1122-595: Was pulled in procession to request the withdrawal of the waters, a procession that is repeated every year in November, from the chapel that bears the name of Christ to the so-called Cross of the Sea (Cruz del Mar). Earthquake Narration by the Community of the Holy Convent of Nuestra Señora Santa María de Regla, on December 6, 1755 On the aforementioned November 1 there wasn't any news from sunrise until 10 o'clock in

1156-428: Was the eldest of 3 children, Gloria (1950) and Amador (1953) and she had 3 nephews and 5 nieces. At home, Rocío Jurado learned to love music; her first public performance was at the age of eight, in a play at Colegio La Divina Pastora. She learned to work hard when she was a girl, She sang in the church, and took part in some festivals organized by her school when she was fifteen. After her father's death, she helped with

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