Actor, singer, dancer, presenter… There are many presentations. She became known as ‘Chica ye ye’ and eventually became the great dame of the Spanish stage.They are the same ones who are orphaned now. Concha Velasco He died at the age of 84. He entered a nursing home in February 2022, just a few months after announcing his retirement from the stage. The decision was made in September 2021 due to the devastation caused by both their children and the coronavirus pandemic. His health problems have been the subject of rumors ever since.
Concepción Velasco Varona was born on 29 November 1939 in Valladolid. He debuted on the big screen when he was only 15 years old. With the movie ‘The Moorish Queen’. She studied Classical and Spanish Dance at the National Conservatory of Madrid until the age of 20. She was part of the cast of the La Coruña Opera at its premiere.
Her anointing as an actress came when she co-starred in the film ‘Daughters of the Red Cross’ in 1958, at the age of 19. seven years later Nicknamed ‘Eat you girl’ After performing the song of the same name in the movie ‘Television Stories’. The success of his performance was so great that he became a successful singer and in later years recorded eight albums. In 1990, she performed a new version of the popular song to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its release.
He changed his career as an actor in the 1960s and continued to play ‘wife’ roles With famous directors and actors such as Mariano Ozores, Alfredo Landa or José Luís López Vázquez. During these years, he collaborated musically with Manolo Escobar.
With the advent of Transition, he began to play more serious roles and leave him comedy aside. She played leading roles in productions such as ‘I Couldn’t Find a Rose for My Mother’, Mario Camus’ ‘La Colmena’ and ‘Equilache’, for which she was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1989. Ten years later, he was nominated for this award again for his performance in director Luis García Berlanga’s film ‘Paris-Timbuktu’. Her last roles on the big screen were ‘Enloquecidos’ (2008), ‘Rabia’ (2009) and ‘Malasaña 32’ (2020). In 2012, he received the Goya Honor Award for his entire film career.
passion for theater
His greatest prestige as an actor came from the theater stage. At the show ‘Don Juan Tenorio’ she met the man who would become her future husband and the father of one of her children, actor and theater producer Paco Marsó. He took part in those years greatest theater plays As ‘Las arrecogías del beguinage of Santa María Egipciaca’ with Pilar Bardem and María Luisa Ponte.
in 1986 It attracted great attention thanks to the musical ‘Mom, I want to be an artist’. In the 90s, she changed her track and started playing middle-aged women seeking freedom. Author and poet Antonio Gala wrote ‘The Apples of Friday’ for Concha Velasco and achieved resounding success by voicing the Broadway musical ‘Hello, Dolly’.
In 2014 he was elected an honorary member of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts and in 2016 he received the National Theater Award. His last performances in the theater took place in 2018 with the play ‘El Funeral’, written by his son Manuel Martínez Velasco, and in 2020 with the play ‘María’s room’, also written by his son.
‘Personal reasons’ and ‘Colleagues’
Concha Velasco has combined cinema and theater with television throughout her career. On the small screen, he starred in successful TV series such as ‘Compañeros’ (1998), ‘Personal Reasons’ (2005)., ‘Herederos’ (2008), ‘The Golden Girls’ (2010) or ‘Under Suspicion’, but she rejected the Spanish television big hit ‘Farmacia de Guardia’ due to her other professional commitments. He also participated in productions on streaming platforms such as ‘Velvet’ or ‘Las Chicas del Cable’.
inside that presenter and communicatorHe emphasized that he took part in TVE’s New Year’s special programs as a presenter between 1984 and 1986. In 1999, she replaced Isabel Gemio at the helm of the ‘Sorpresa surprise’ at Antena 3. Her last appearance as a television presenter was in the popular TVE program she. ‘Neighborhood Cinema’, which he took over in 2011, took a break due to illness when he was diagnosed with lymph cancer in 2014, and ended in 2020 when he decided to devote himself entirely to theater and his family.
Concha Velasco left a great heritage and an invaluable contribution to culture of our country.