I believe in happy endings.
And after a harsh winter, although not very cold, March caresses us with wonderful news.
Isabel Pantoja has been invited to the Baile de la Rosa in Monte Carlo.
This Saturday, probably, while some are reading these lines, La Pantoja, one of the founding myths of democratic and modern Spain, is reaching that paradise of low taxes, tall buildings and strong emotions.
In the extensive and, why not?, historic interview in
Hello!
breaks a noisy silence of four years.
He declares that the illusion is immense.
Although he initially thought they had the wrong person when he received the invitation in another paradise, Puerto Rico, where Ricky Martin is from, in his day very close to Alberto de Monaco.
Pantoja, who is also celebrating 50 years of musical career, tells us that she has always felt very identified with Princess Carolina.
Parallel lives.
Not only are they the same age (66 years old), but both leaders, at different times, have gone through the same trance, the same pain, the loss of a husband, father of their children.
Pantoja, the undisputed queen of the copla and the national passion, believes that everything is united.
She and Carolina, who don't know each other yet, have actually lived together in that common house that is
Hello!.
You have to get that photo together, a sea and a mountain.
We all deserve it.
glamor
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All the melodrama that the Mediterranean can host and offer.
Isabel Pantoja, a myth that she feels through every pore of her, speaks in the interview that she was once in the gardens that Grace Kelly designed and bequeathed to her adopted city.
The singer faced the public death of her husband two years after her and that would make her the widow of Spain, a kind of country-chic and racial Jackie Kennedy, shortly after her.
Pantoja now declares that during that visit she "felt" Grace present to her, accompanying her.
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Pantoja does not talk about his son, nor his daughter, nor about Cantora, as if he were happily allying himself with Telecinco's new code of ethics, which he prefers not to mention any of these three realities.
She does expand on acknowledging the panic suffered during the pandemic.
"Don't open the windows," she dictated in her territory in the most Lorca-esque way possible.
The exclusive is not wasted on her, it was worth keeping quiet and waiting these four years.
Dressed in a series of beautiful dresses that speak of a new impulse with vibrant colors, green, purple, coral, very Saint Laurent, she appears, of course!, the inevitable blouse.
Very El Rocio.
Pantoja emerges as an uncensored emotion, an individual and coherent reply to the tuneless chorus of the motion of censure and Ramón Tamames' speech in Congress.
A speech that adds aspirations,
From left to right, Mario Vaquerizo, Alaska, Pedro Almodóvar and Bibiana Fernández, at the Baile de la Rosa in 2008. Alain BENAINOUS (Gamma-Rapho via Getty)
I can't help but remember my personal experience at the Baile de la Rosa dedicated to the Movida in 2008. Karl Lagerfeld then orchestrated each delivery in the company of Carolina.
I helped convince Eduardo Sánchez Junco, Sr., that I was the ideal person to write that chronicle.
"Because I have grown up seeing it in the magazine and I feel like the son of La Movida and
¡Hola!".
He approved the idea and there I slipped.
I will never forget Ernesto de Hannover, then married to Carolina, telling Bibiana Fernández, David Delfín and me that we had turned out to be fresh air for a dance that “has many vampires around”.
Carolina was fun, close, falling in love with Paco Clavel.
“I want her to stay here,” she said without thinking twice.
Well, now that I extend the same invitation to Pantoja.
Although she won't be performing at the gala, her status allows her to attend as a guest and she slips that Shirley Bassey will also be there.
They have to act together!
Only James Bond is missing.
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