In addition to being one of the voices of Spanish music of the last century (and of the last decades, since his last album is from 2020), Maria Jimenez He was also a regular face on television sets. So much so that the singer became the presenter of the program ‘blessed‘, which aired between 2006 and 2007 on Channel Sur.
“Blessed are those who seek compassion”
The program presented by María Jiménez was an interview program that began to be broadcast on January 23, 2006 and in its of seasons brought together on his set a multitude of “singers, politicians, characters from the social chronicle and comedians”. The program had a theme song performed by the artist, with the same name as the program, and in which one could hear: “life is killing me and I can’t find the reason, blessed are those who seek compassion. Blessed are those who wait for the sermon.”
The beginning of the program, with a María Jiménez angelic, in white and lots of feathers, also acting as a counterpoint with ‘Blessed’ himself and its set full of candles and its red cloth curtains, almost straight out of a fairytale witch’s house.
The first interviewee was nothing more and nothing less than John and a half, one of the best-known faces of the Andalusian public channel. And behind him, María Jiménez received Names tan acquaintances like Lidia Lozano, Chenoa, Chiquetete, El Arrebato, José Mercé, Marujita Díaz, Boris Izaguirre, María del Monte, Karmele Marchante, Those from the river, Pipi Estrada, Falete, Carlos Baute, Merche, Lolita Flores, Manolo Escobar o Dove St. Basil. In her last program, broadcast on May 1, 2007, the singer had José Ortega Cano and Dolores Abril as guests, as well as interviewing Juan Antonio Valderrama, singer Ana Fernández and comedian Manu Sánchez.
In its two seasons, the program also had time to have two special programs for Christmas y New Year (the ‘Blessed Christmas Special’) that counted on the presence of artists such as El Fary, Raphael, India Martinez, Remedios Amaya or Antonio Carmona.
In addition, during its broadcast the death of Rocio Jurado, who died on June 1, 2006. For this reason, ‘Bienventurados’ dedicated two programs to ‘The biggest’, a special divided into two parts, temporarily becoming ‘Blessed Rocío Jurado’.
In these two programs, María Jiménez received guests on set who wanted to pay tribute to the artist from Chipiona and that they recounted their experiences with her, as her niece Rosario Mohedano, but also vega passion, martha sanchez o Diana Navarro.
You can watch the complete two seasons of ‘blessed’ through South Channel More, the on-demand platform of the public chain.
2023-09-07 13:32:33
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