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The fantastic four of the eighties song: the viral photo with which they remember the greats of romantic music in Spanish

2019-09-30T17:38:21.120Z


An iconic photograph that has circulated in networks in recent days, most recently with the death of José José, the 'prince of the song', recalls a golden age of the…


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(CNN Spanish) - It's a photo for the story. The memory of the greatest performers of the romantic song of the eighties.

An iconic photograph that has circulated in networks in recent days, most recently with the death of José José, the 'prince of the song', recalls a golden age of romantic ballads in Spanish. Juan Gabriel appears in it together, with shorts and sports shoes; José José, smiling with a cigarette in his hand; Camilo Sesto, and Rocío Durcal, with a drink in his hand. Everyone has died today.

The photograph was published four years ago in the official Facebook account of Rocío Dúrcal, who died in 2006: “The four most record sellers in the 80s. Here in a meeting at his record house, Ariola. ”

  • José José died at 71

This image had already circulated just a few weeks ago, at the beginning of September, with the death of Camilo Sesto, who died at age 72 in Madrid, Spain. At that time only the Mexican José José was alive.

But weeks after the death of Camilo Sesto, José José, who sold more than 85 million records throughout his career, died "sleeping" at 71.

The romantic four

Together, Rocío Durcal, Juan Gabriel, Camilo Sesto and José José, were part of a generation of music in Spanish where the romantic ballad was the law. The four were part of Billboard's most important charts in the 80s and 90s, positioning their songs among the most listened to at the time with other artists such as Julio Iglesias, Amanda Miguel, and José Luis Rodríguez, 'El Cougar'.

José José (1948-2019)

José Rómulo Sosa Ortíz, the last to die among those who appear in this iconic photograph, is according to his record label Sony Music "one of the greatest legends of the song in Spanish." He sold more than 85 million records throughout his career and his iconic 1983 production, Secrets, exceeded 6 million copies sold, so he was in the first place of Billboard's Hit Parade for 40 weeks, according to Sony Music.

For his musical career, the 'prince of the song' was awarded in 2004 with the Prize for musical excellence of the Latin Academy of Recording, a distinction that very few artists have received, according to Sony Music. The Spanish Rocío Durcal, who accompanies Sosa Ortíz in this photo, received that same award in 2005, a year before she died. Sosa Ortiz was also recognized as Person of the Year in 2005.

Camilo Sesto (1946-2019)

Camilo Sesto, who died on September 8 at the age of 72 of a cardiac arrest, was also part of this generation, with successes Free Love, Dawning, and My Love, what have you done to me ?, that in the 90s It lasted 18 weeks at number 1 on the Latin Billboard list.

The Spanish artist was the Spanish speaker with the most number of numbers 1 in the world: 52 throughout his career, and recorded more than 600 songs during his artistic life. His success was such that he sold 100 million records worldwide and in 1987 he was chosen as "the most famous Spanish singer in history" by telephone vote, according to Sony Music.

His song The love of my life, was the most sold in Spain in the entire 70's, and between 1970 and 1987, offered more than 6,000 concerts.

Juan Gabriel (1950-2016)

The Divo de Juárez needs no introduction. Throughout his 45-year career he sold more than 100 million copies of his nearly 60 albums where ballads predominated but also rancheras, Latin pop, boleros, mariachis and even flamenco salsa and rumbas. He was also nominated up to 6 times for the Grammy Awards and achieved a record that until the day of his death - on August 28, 2016 - had not been exceeded: 350,000 people attended his concert in the Zocalo of Mexico City in In 2000, he was also the first popular artist to perform at the Palacio de Bellas Artes de México, an exclusive stage for classical music.

Juan Gabriel's music was provided to more than 1,500 artists, including Paul Anka, Isabel Pantoja, Vicente Fernández, Luis Miguel or Rocío Jurado. With the same Rocío Durcal, who appears next to him in the photo, he had several collaborations, including one of the most famous Frente a Frente, of 1997, with songs like “El noa noa”, “Until I met you” and “ Dear".

Juan Gabriel arrived on big stages, including the Palace of Fine Arts, the National Auditorium, the Azteca Stadium and the Viña del Mar Festival and his songs were translated into Japanese, Italian, French and German, and Billboard magazine put him as the # 18 artist with the most earnings in 2015, thanks to the $ 31.8 million he earned on the tour he made that year only in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Rocío Durcal (1944-2006)

By 1977, when Juan Gabriel proposed to record a complete album of rancheras, María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz, who was the real name of the Spanish artist, was already one of the most popular and beloved artists on both sides of the Atlantic .

The "most Mexican Spanish", as Rocío Durcal is known, sold more than 50 million records from more than twenty albums according to her musical house, Sony Music, which combined rancheras, boleros, tangos and ballads.

Among his most popular songs are I like you very much, It was a pleasure to meet you, Like your wife, Desaires, How the years have passed, Eternal love or The cat in the rain, who came for years to the Billboard number 1, according to Sony, and "without renouncing its traditional accent," the Spanish managed to forge a golden stage for ranchera music, which crossed borders and reached the entire audience that sang and felt in Spanish.

Durcal, who in this photo held a glass and smiled with his three friends who marked a generation, would be the first of the four to leave, at age 61, because of cancer.

Today, this photograph reminds us of a golden age of music in Spanish and of a generation of romantic and ranch ballads, and it also leaves us with the memory of four great artists who met again in the afterlife.

Camilo SestoJosé JoséJuan GabrielRocío Durcal

Source: cnnespanol

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