On Saturday, May 14, 2022, for reasons that have not transpired, a new point of light in the Morente Carbonell saga died. The family sings seguiriyas again due to the disappearance, at the age of 92, of bailaora Rosario Muñoz, matriarch of the clan, wife of guitarist Montoyita, mother of the versatile Aurora and grandmother of cantaores Estrella, Soleá and Kiki Morente.
Many artists have echoed the news on social networks, thus joining the mourning of the Morente, in which those of the Flores family (Lolita) stand out for the friendship that united them during their life in Madrid, when, in their home Close to the Rastro, the two clans grew up together, where Rosario Muñoz and Lola Flores cultivated an enduring friendship.
On the other hand, Rosario was the one who fought with her family to get Enrique (a payo, separated from a previous marriage) admitted into the Carbonell family, thus uniting two illustrious surnames in the history and art of Granada. Flemish.
We remember, in Estrella’s last concerts, that she went arm in arm with her grandmother, assigned her a preferential seat and dedicated the concert to her. What’s more, her album ‘Copla’, recorded in 2019, in the midst of a pandemic, was not only dedicated to her, but also recognized that her grandmother, Rosario, was a source of inspiration, that without her “the Her work would have been different. “Well,” she confessed in an interview with Ideal last September, “since I was little, she has shaped that love, that veneration for the classics, for the details from before, the rudeness, the expression and the way of communicating that couplet”.
In one way or another, the Flemish family is in mourning again, due to the loss of one of their children, an endearing companion of the community.
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