Personal and professional life Concha Velasco (Valladolid, 1939), Noted for his endless energy and renowned talent, he is good for much more than a movie script.
The artist has appeared in more than 80 films, countless theater plays, musicals and popular television series. To this we must add the role of presenter, which allowed him to finance his theatrical dreams.
For all this, Velasco is gone He died this Saturday at the age of 84In fact, one of the most beloved Spanish artists retired from the media limelight with not only years of professional success but also emotional ups and downs.
early career
He showed me the way even when I was a child. While studying classical dance, she made her debut at the A Coruña Opera Dance Association. She later appeared as a dancer in Manolo Caracol’s company and was also a magazine girl with Celia Gámez.
When he was only 15 years old, he started his cinema career with a role in the movie ‘La Reina Mora’. Her big success came two years later with ‘Red Cross Girls’, which made her one of the most popular faces in Spain.
Many films followed this bomb and in 1965 he shot ‘Television Stories’. After the movie was released, she forever became the ‘yeyé girl’, which is the name of the Augusto Algueró song she sang in the movie. His success in music allowed him to record eight more albums, although he never established himself as a singer.
He handled all genres with great ease: comedy, drama, musicals… He triumphed on television as the protagonist of various dramatic productions. (‘Teresa de Jesús’, 1984) and as a presenter, actor and dancer in variety shows (“Long live the show!”).
His good work and public love opened many doors for him and gave him the opportunity to make films under great directors such as Pedro Olea, Josefina Molina and Luis García Berlanga. left its mark on his floundering love life.
Loves and heartbreaks
The first love of your life was unrequited: He was the son of the great singer Manolo Caracol but was rejected due to his young age.
The first man to conquer it in years director José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, who is 28 years his senior. He signed her as the protagonist of ‘El indulto’ alongside Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz. “José Luis was a man I loved very much and from whom I learned a lot. but what He probably didn’t love me as much as I loved him.. He was not the person I needed,” Concha said in an interview, having spent at least 11 years with this man who was her first love.
In the early 70s he left Sáenz de Heredia and after acting in cinema Fernando Fernán Gómez – the actor whom Concha says is her platonic love and the best kisser in cinema– The actor took a leap into theater by giving a new direction to his profession.
Immediately after, Concha fell in love with the famous Sevillian artist Juan Diego. Together they starred in Antonio Buero Vallejo’s play ‘The Coming of the Gods’. They ended their relationship as good friends after three years, but He wanted to marry her and always thanked her for instilling social conscience in him.
According to Concha his great love Manolo Escobar, however, is married to Anita Marx. Although he was “very much in love” with the singer, he could never have a love affair with her. “I fell very in love with a man, but I decided not to fall in love and we became friends with his wife.” He has stated this many times, referring to the translator of ‘My Car’, with whom he has always had a great friendship.
Then the cinematographer entered his life. Fernando Arribas, another married man. ‘Tormento, Pim, pam, pum… fire!’ They starred together in many films such as. and ‘Blanca’s Vacation’. Shortly after, the woman from Valladolid ended the relationship.
Actor and director Adolfo Marsillach, with whom she worked many times, was the one who introduced her to the man of her life: producer Paco Marsó. “An earthquake changed my life,” the actor said in his memoirs.
On September 4, 1976, the artist’s first child, Manuel, was born. Interestingly, the artist did not make a statement until 2021 Who is the father of your son Manuel?. The actress had protected secretly identifying the biological father all these years in the program ‘Sábado Deluxe’ Manuel’s father Fernando Arribas.
Velasko She married Paco Marsó on April 18, 1977. It was an intimate wedding with a small number of guests.
Crises
The couple became parents of their second child, Paco, on April 5, 1979. He enjoyed success for years, but he also enjoyed failure, economic ruin, and infidelity.
His years of glory, marked by the founding of his own theater company and the successful television series ‘Spanish Musical Comedy’, were replaced by constant embargoes and debts.
After several crises and being completely devastated, the couple separated in 2005. Marsó ceased to be his representative and took care of the debts to the Treasury on his own. In 1998, the artist had to put his house in La Moraleja up for sale and soon moved to his old apartment in Madrid, which he also had to sell.
But he would still experience one of the worst periods of his existence. A year after their separation, Marsó became a regular on television shows and made public his gambling addiction and numerous infidelities during the 28 years he was with Concha. In 2009, he learned from the press that his ex-girlfriend had married a young Cuban woman with whom he would have children.
Upset and disappointed, she signed the divorce a year later and took refuge in her children and her job. However, despite all the pain he experienced next to him, In November 2010, she went to Malaga to say goodbye to the man of her life.