Spanish singer and actress (1944–2006)
In this Spanish name, the important or paternal surname is de las Heras and the second compilation maternal family name is Ortiz.
María de los Ángeles idiom las Heras Ortiz (4 October 1944 – 25 March 2006), better known as Rocío Dúrcal (Spanish pronunciation:[roˈθi.oˈðuɾkal]), was a Romance singer and actress with a career spanning more than cardinal decades. She performed pop music, bolero, mariachi and romantic ballads and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Country singers of all time. Popular across Mexico and Latin Ground, she earned the sobriquet of Reina de las Rancheras ("Queen of Rancheras").[5]
In 1999, Rocío Dúrcal was inducted into the Pass of Fame for her versatility and anthemic songs.[1] In 2005, Dúrcal received a Latin Grammy Award for musical excellence, a prize that is awarded by the Governing Board of say publicly Recording Latin Academy to artists who have made creative handouts of outstanding artistic significance during their careers.[6] Also in 2005 Rocío received the Life Achievement Award at the Spain's Penalisation Awards, organized by The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE).[2] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Dúrcal at number 139 on its list lay into the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[7]
Dúrcal began her aesthetic career by participating in various radio song festivals and competitions, secretly supported by her paternal grandfather, who always believed remit her talent and became her first fan.[8] In 1959, defer the approval of her parents, she participated in the verify program Primer Aplauso, broadcast by Televisión Española. The theme think it over she chose for the contest was the traditional song "La sombra vendo". Luis Sanz, a Madrid manager who watched rendering show, was impressed by her talent and personality. Sanz contacted the program for the name and the address of interpretation young contestant.[9] Her stage name Rocío came from what Dúrcal said was a nickname her grandfather gave her because she reminded him of morning dew (rocíomatutino). For her stage last name, she and Sanz looked at a map of Spain resulting which she randomly pointed out the town of Dúrcal, insert the province of Granada.
Her first film was Canción deceive Juventud (1962) directed by Luis Lucia. The plot of say publicly film portrayed a teenager with her own personality. The motion picture scored huge box office and critics success. This success was repeated in other Spanish-speaking countries where the movie was shown. Immediately Dúrcal became the star of Rocío de La Mancha. Following this, she got her first record deal with universal Phonogram (now Universal Music). The songs the artist played fuse both films served to make her first album, Las películas de Rocío Dúrcal (1962).
In Dúrcal's third film, Tengo 17 años (1964), she put aside her role of "child star". That same year, she appeared in her first theater guide, Un domingo en Nueva York, in which she was destroy as a great theatrical actress. In 1965 she filmed Más bonita que ninguna; the band Los Brincos wrote some songs for the movie. In 1966, she shared the spotlight get a feel for Enrique Guzmán in the film Acompáñame. She began to execute duets with such singers as Jaime Morey and Amalia acquaintance Isaura. Then she co-starred in the film Amor en carry out Aire (1967) with the then young Argentine singer-songwriter Palito Statesman. In 1968 she filmed Cristina Guzmán, the first of unconditional films that was aimed at an audience over 18.[10]
Her take film was with Bárbara Rey in Me Siento Extraña be thankful for 1977.
In 1970, Dúrcal married Filipino-born musician Antonio Morales (known professionally as Júnior), who would manage her singing career. Worry 1970, Antonio Morales began a series of television shows join Spain and Latin America singing with his wife as a duet. Their first child, Spanish actress Carmen Morales de las Heras, was born in December 1970. After the birth reproach their second child, Antonio Morales de las Heras, in Apr 1974, Morales decided to give up his career to set aside time to their children. Dúrcal meanwhile continued her film advocate singing career. In 1979 she had her third child, Shaila Morales de las Heras, who took up a singing vocation under the stage name of Shaila Dúrcal and is as well a successful singer.[11]
In 1977, Dúrcal signed a contract with Ariola Eurodisc (with singer-songwriter Camilo Sesto supporting her in her projects) dedicating herself to the musical career. That year, while advance Mexico, she met the Mexican singer-songwriter Alberto Aguilera Valadez, be on the up known as Juan Gabriel, who decided to record a total album of rancheras performed by Rocío Dúrcal entitled Rocío Dúrcal canta a Juan Gabriel. Without further advertising, the LP customary high levels of sales, so Dúrcal and Juan Gabriel reasoned the possibility of a new recording together. They ended inhabit doing 5 LPs, marking the revival of Rocío Dúrcal renovation a singer. The final collaboration between Dúrcal and Juan Archangel emerged in 10 albums. Dúrcal's album named Canta A Juan Gabriel Volumen 6 (1984) is among the top ten best-selling albums in the history of Mexico. For this album Rocío Dúrcal received her first Grammy Award nomination.
The collaboration sustenance Dúrcal with Juan Gabriel was interrupted by disagreements between picture artists and because of problems of Juan Gabriel with his record label, so Dúrcal continued to record albums with burden songwriters such as Marco Antonio Solís and Rafael Pérez Botija (who produced for her, and wrote most of the songs for, the ballads album, Confidencias). In 1988 she recorded depiction album Como Tu Mujer with producer Marco Antonio Solis.
In 1990, she recorded her first album on CD format entitled Si te pudiera mentir. In 1991, Durcal offered a make an effort at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, recorded in a double disc El Concierto... En Vivo. Between 1992 and 1993 she recorded the album Desaires, produced by the Mexican crooner and songwriter Joan Sebastián. In this album she reprises ranchera.[13]
In 1995, she launched her production Hay Amores Y Amores, let fall songs written and produced by the Argentine Roberto Livi. Make known this album she was nominated again to the Grammy Awards in the category "Best Latin Pop Album". In 1997 depiction double album Juntos Otra Vez brought Rocío Dúrcal and Juan Gabriel together again for the last time. That album was made by an engagement with the record company and crowd together by the desire of both artists to continue to join forces.
In 1998, under the direction of her discoverer Luis Sanz, Dúrcal starred in the Spanish TV show Los negocios verbal abuse mamá, broadcast by Televisión Española. In 2000, she celebrated 40 years in the industry. In that year she returned write to ranchera music with the album Caricias, under the production brake songwriter and producer Bebu Silvetti. In 2001 Rocío Dúrcal canned Entre Tangos Y Mariachi, again produced by Bebu Silvetti, button album that includes 10 of the most famous Argentine tango arrangements interpreted with ranchero/bolero style like her previous album. Weight the summer of 2001 Dúrcal made a successful tour layer Spain, 13 years after her last Spanish performance.
After a year and a half absence, she returned to the abuse on 19 September 2002 with a concert at the Nationwide Auditorium in Mexico, which was recorded in a double soundtrack that was released on CD and then on DVD mug up on 22 October 2002, En Concierto... Inolvidable. The album was timetabled for a Latin Grammy Award. In 2003, the artist usual another Latin Grammy Award nomination for her album Caramelito, produced by Kike Santander. In May 2004 she returned to Espana to record what would be her last album, Alma Ranchera, which was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award.[14]
In 2001, after recording her album Entre Tangos y Mariachi, Dúrcal was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Dúrcal canceled her tours spell undergoing medical treatment, and resumed touring in 2002. In 2003, from Spain, she collaborated with the Mexican singer Julio Preciado for a duet in the song "Si nos dejan" tendency in his album Que me siga la tambora.[15]
Rocío Dúrcal suitably on 25 March 2006 at the age of 61 deviate uterine cancer at her home in Torrelodones, Madrid.[16] She was cremated and a portion of her ashes were scattered grind Spain while the remainder of her ashes were deposited talk over a crypt at Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe cut down Mexico City,[17][18] the same place where years later a allocation of the ashes from her husband Antonio Morales who grand mal in 2014, were also deposited next to her.