Posted on 06/24/2019 7:00:08 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
EVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Maria Rosario Pilar Lorenza Emilia Eugenia Martinez Molina Baeza De La Osa Rasten — you know her as Charo — was walking through her home looking for her husband, singing, “Good morning, good morning,” when she found him. He had shot himself. Kjell Rasten was 78 when he died in February. Charo has said that he had been suffering from a rare disease called bullous pemphigoid, which is characterized by terrible blistering of the skin, and that he had become depressed. “My husband put a bullet in his head,” Charo said. “I have an invisible bullet in my heart.” In the month after his death, Charo retreated to her bedroom, where she cried, but did not pray. “I was empty,” she said. After 30 days of isolation she emerged. She came to understand, once she resurfaced, that while, as she put it, “my time as a woman has ended” — meaning her life as a woman who experiences romantic love — she has her son, and her sister, and her nephew, and God.
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I had no idea she started so young and trained under Segovia. Wow.
Well that explains it!! And to think all these years I thought it was the TV censors.
That's almost like having Mozart for a piano teacher.
She has dedicated her whole life to perfecting her guitar playing.. No wonder she can do it so well.
That said, she seems to be such a cheerful, sunny person, who makes everyone smile.
God bless her and comfort her.
There were episodes where you did.
Guitar Player magazine voted her best flemenco player two years running in the early 70s. No mean feat.
In 1976 Charo said, “thees year America is celebrating the Bisexual Century!”
She was a student of the great Andres Segovia.
... and one had black hair and the other one was a blonde!
Saw an interview with her back in th 80s-90s where she said she practiced three hours a day...every day.
Those of you looking up her guitar playing might want to check out the vid where she’s playing Malaguena. It’s pretty amazing. (But not quite as good as Roy Clark’s version)
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