In The music of my life we pay homage every week to a renowned artist and in this program it is the turn of… Sara Montiel! Beside Inés Ballester We have made a journey through his musical and cinematographic career, as well as through his intense life.
Her real name was María Antonia Alejandra Abad. Sara Montiel the artistic. An artist who, in addition to releasing thirty records and appearing in nearly sixty films, became the erotic icon of the fifties and sixties, capable of making intellectuals like León Felipe, Miguel Mihura or Severo Ochoa fall in love.
Sara Montiel: “I have had nights of love where it burned to the mattress”
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Sara Montiel brought the cuplé back into fashion with her deep, sensual voice and performed boleros that became music history, such as I learned with you and Kiss Me a lot. Some songs that made the society of the time enjoy and that had a common scenario: Madrid, its streets and its people.
The artist’s bond with the capital is eternal and few people from Madrid resist humming these songs without getting the best out of each one of them, just as Sara did in her time.
“La violetera” by Sara Montiel: an anthem for the women of Madrid
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Women found in Sara Montiel a feminine and different image at a time when there was no divorce and when women could not have a checking account, among other discriminations. The artist showed them the way to follow: she was a free and unique woman, ahead of its time and without complexes or prejudices. The most universal manchega.
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