Una vez dicho esto hay obituarios dedicados a Camilo en toda la prensa anglosajona desde el New York Times al People, sólo cuando se muera Julio o Plácido (tan en boga ultimamente) se hará algo similar.
Camilo Sesto, Spain’s Romantic Hitmaker, Is Dead at 72
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Camilo Sesto in 2009 at a news conference in Mexico City. He sold millions of records worldwide and had more than 50 No.1 hits.CreditCreditGregory Bull/Associated Press
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Jon Pareles
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Camilo Sesto, a Spanish songwriter, singer and producer whose romantic songs have sold more than 180 million copies worldwide, died on Sunday in Madrid. He was 72 and lived in Madrid.
His manager, Eduardo Guervós, told the Spanish public broadcaster TVE that he had died in a hospital after suffering two heart attacks, The Associated Press reported. In recent years he had also struggled with kidney problems.
With a tenor voice that could be gentle and imploring and then rise to impassioned peaks, Mr. Sesto became a pop superstar across the Spanish-speaking world in the 1970s. In hits like the wall-of-sound 1978 pop production
“Vivir Así Es Morir de Amor” (“To Live Like This Is To Die of Love”), he sang about romance, longing and heartache. He garnered more than 50 No. 1 hits worldwide. Mr. Sesto wrote nearly all of the songs he recorded on more than two dozen albums, and he also wrote and produced hits for Spanish and Latin American pop singers including Miguel Bosé, José José and
Ángela Carrasco.
Camilo Blanes Cortés was born on Sept. 16, 1946, in the town of Alcoy in the province of Alicante. As a child he sang at weddings and christenings. In the mid-1960s, he joined Beatles-style rock bands that brought him to Madrid:
Los Dayson and
Los Botines. He started a solo career with the producer and songwriter Juan Pardo as a mentor, changing his name first to Camilo Sexto and then to Camilo Sesto; “sexto” is Spanish for “sixth,” and he was the sixth Camilo Blanes in his family.
“Algo de Mi” (“Something of Me”) became Mr. Sesto’s first No. 1 hit in 1972, inaugurating a two-decade outpouring of hits, including
“Algo Más” (“Something More”),
“Perdóname” (“Forgive Me”),
“¿Quieres Ser Mi Amante?” (“Do You Want to Be My Lover?”),
“Donde Estés, Con Quién Estés” (“Wherever You Are, Whomever You’re With”) and
“Amor Mío, ¿Qué Me Has Hecho?” (“My Love, What Have You Done to Me?”).
In 1975 he starred in a Spanish-language adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” in Madrid, financing the production and playing the title role, bringing Broadway-style musical theater to Spain and demonstrating his abilities as
both singer and actor. His touring circuit expanded to arenas worldwide, including a devoted following in Japan.
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He never married. “A life like the one I have had, jumping from one place to another, cannot be endured by anyone, let alone a woman,” he told the Spanish newspaper
El País in a 2018 interview. But in 1983 he had a son with the Mexican actress Lourdes Ornelas: Camilo Blanes, who survives him.
Despite health problems, including a liver transplant in the early 2000s, Mr. Sesto had remained active. Last year he released a retrospective album,
“Camilo Sinfónico,” which placed new, transformed orchestral arrangements behind vocals from his hits. Although he played a two-year farewell world tour from 2009 to 2011, he had scheduled a new United States tour in October.
Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister of Spain,
wrote on Twitter that Mr. Sesto was “one of the most beloved and universal artists,” adding, “his melodies will always be part of our memory.”
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 9, 2019, Section A, Page 28 of the New York edition with the headline: Camilo Sesto, 72, Spanish Pop Star With Over 50 No. 1 Hits.
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Latin Pop Icon Camilo Sesto Dies at 72, Days Before Release of New Album
"His melodies will always be part of our memory," Spain's prime minister wrote on Twitter
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Claudia Harmata
September 08, 2019 02:30 PM
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Spanish singer and songwriter Camilo Sesto has died at the age of 72.
Sesto, who was born Camilo Blanes Cortés, died early Sunday morning, according to his manager Eduardo Guervós, who confirmed his death with Spanish
public broadcaster RTVE. Guervós said the famed singer died after suffering two heart attacks after his health “deteriorated” following his kidney complications last year.
Sesto died at the Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid.
His death was also confirmed with a post to his official Twitter account, originally written in Spanish.
“Dear friends We are very sorry to inform you that our great and dear artist Camilo Sesto has just left us,” the statement read. “Rest in peace.”
Sesto rose to popularity as a powerful voice and superstar of in Latin pop in the 1970s and 1980s. He was still musically active, with a new album set to release on Sept. 13, according to
Billboard.
He was also scheduled to tour the U.S. this upcoming fall, with his opening performance at Coliseo de Puerto Rico on October 3. The “Perdóname” singer then had six more October dates, including October 25 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
“Spain and all of Latin America mourn the loss of Camilo Sesto,” Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, tweeted in Spanish. “His melodies will always be part of our memory.”
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