This culminating year was marked by the crisis that the pandemic generated in many activities, including those in the middle of the show, which was not saved.
Far from being saved, it was a gray year for theater, music, cinema and other artistic expressions, which were darkened as great figures lost their lives.
Mexican singer and actor Óscar Chávez lost the battle against the coronavirus last April. Other musicians who also died in 2020 were Luis Eduardo Aute, Yoshio, Little Richard, Pau Donés (Jarabe de Palo), Eddie Van Halen, Neil Peart (Rush) and Ennio Morricone, genius of music for the cinema.
In the seventh art Chadwick Boseman (‘Black Panther’) died unexpectedly, which shocked Hollywood since for several years he kept the secret of his colon cancer.
Sean Connery (the great James Bond), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Ian Holm (‘The Lord of the Rings’) and Kirk Douglas, were three other actors who died in the last 12 months.
In Mexico, the death of two great national television and film personalities: Héctor Suárez and Manuel ‘El Loco’ Valdés, the comedy was in mourning. The director Gabriel Retes, the star Wanda Seux and the ‘Stylist to the stars’, Alfredo Palacios, also lost their lives. Also, the Mexican singer and actress Flor Silvestre and the producer Magda Rodríguez.
Other celebrities who left the earthly plane this year were Quino, Mafalda’s father, basketball player Kobe Bryant, Naya Rivera (‘Glee’ actress), and Argentine soccer star Diego Armando Maradona.
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