Concha Velasco With his death on December 2, he left behind an impressive career in the world of entertainment, seven decades looking back on how he went from Conchita to Concha until he ended up in Dona Concha. One of the most popular, prolific and beloved faces of the Spanish stage in its entire history, he has left thousands of representative images of his long artistic career in the collective imagination of the Spaniards.

A woman who turned everything she touched into success, an artist who broke the mold at every step. dancer and singer before becoming a film, theater and television actressfacets to which she also added those of host and producer.

Unclassifiable because he is multi-faceted, rebellious. Like some of the characters she played, a nonconformist who tests herself in any discipline, and an innovator in order not to lose her place, only health and age determined the vitality of the unique actress, as evidenced by her rich biography.

Since his debut on the big screen in Moorish Queen (1955), when he was barely fifteen years old, He took part in almost a hundred films, to which he added twenty television series.s, over thirty plays and recording a dozen albums.

He didn’t rest on his laurels, he took risks in every shoot, displaying a versatility that speaks to the incongruity of the characters he’s played over seven decades in films like Red Cross girls (1958); TV Stories (1965); Little girl from Valladolid (1973); Hive (1982); Paris-Timbuktu (1999); Moscow gold (2002); flow (2014); And Malasanya, 32 (2020).

Girl Ye, chulapa, prostitute, mystic, exemplary friend, exemplary wife, femme fatale, modern, progressive… turned to a huge number of records commissioned by directors of different generations, such as José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, Pedro Lazaga, Pedro Olea, Josephine Molina, Luis García Berlanga, Mario Camus and Jaime de Armiñan, together with Tony Leblanc, Manolo Escobar and Alfredo Landa are the actors he has met the most.

Restless and nonconformist, Concha Velasco played in all styles: from classical dance and opera to flamenco. as a dancer in the troupe of Manolo Caracol and in the music magazine, to which she came thanks to Celia Gamez as vice-tele, all this is the result of her vocation, as well as rigor and discipline both in training and in work. .

An indelible vocation and enthusiasm played a decisive role in this long artistic careerthe same ones that, almost eighty years old, did not stop her from getting up at dawn to study abstracts, “with a good memory but poor health,” as she explained many years ago in an interview Efe agency.

Film covers about Concha Velasco