Rocío Jurado

Maria del Rocio Trinidad Mohedano Jurado (born September 18, 1946 in Chipiona , Cádiz province , † June 1, 2006 in Madrid ) was a Spanish singer and actress .

Jurado was married to the boxer Pedro Carrasco . They had a daughter together. After her divorce from Carrasco, she married the torero José Ortega Cano and adopted two children.

Career

Rocio Jurado began her career in a show by the singer Principe Gitano with the song Tengo Miedo . In 1962 she had her breakthrough with the film Los guerrilleros on the side of Manolo Escobar . She later starred in the film Proceso a una estrella in 1966 and in Una chica casi decente in 1971 . In the meantime she lived in Argentina and appeared in the musical La zapatera prodigiosa , which was based on the work of Federico García Lorca . Through the collaboration with the composer Manuel Alejandro , Jurado became a popular figure in Latin American music and was best known for the music titles Muera el amor and Señora .

In 1990 she sang with Lola Flores in the music show Juntos por primera vez . In 1992 she sang with Juana Reina , María Vidal and Imperio Argentina in the musical Azabache which was arranged for Expo92. It is called La mas grande (the greatest) in Spain . In 2004, she announced her cancer disease to the public at a press conference. In 2005 she made her last CD Rocio ... siempre in which she sings with David Bisbal , Raphael and Chayanne . In 2006 the last interview will be broadcast on Spanish television. After a short stay in the USA, she returns to Spain to die in Madrid on June 1st. When stepping on Spanish soil, she is awarded the "medalla al merito del trabajo" (Spanish medal of honor for life's work) with immediate effect. Her death causes mass hysteria in Spain. Artists such as Pedro Almodóvar , Carmen Sevilla , Joaquín Cortés , José Mercé , Paquita Rico , Marujita Diaz and Julio Iglesias , as well as her husband the bullfighter José Ortega Cano appear at the funeral. Alongside Lola Flores, she was the most important singer in the Copla andaluza .

Discography (selection)

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1979	Señora	IT32 platinum (13 weeks)IT	Chart entry in ES only in 2005
2004	Volcan de amor y fuego	IT21 (11 weeks) IT	Chart entry in ES only in 2006
2006	Rocío ... siempre	IT3 platinum (52 weeks)IT
	Esencial	IT7 (12 weeks) IT
	Senora (La Antología Completa De Sus Grandes Canciones)	IT10 gold (8 weeks)IT
	Oro	IT62 (7 weeks) IT
2007	30 canciones de amor	IT31 (6 weeks) IT
	La copla	IT8 (9 weeks) IT
2008	flamenco	IT4th gold (32 weeks)IT
2009	Única	IT33 (6 weeks) IT
	El amor más grande (Las grandes baladas)	IT47 (13 weeks) IT
2016	El legado de Rocio Jurado	IT99 (1 week) IT

More albums

• Rocío Jurado (1969)
• Proceso a una estrella (1970)
• Rocío Jurado (1971)
• Rocío Jurado (1974)
• Cupid Marinero (1974)
• Soy de España (1975)
• Rocío (1975)
• Rocío Jurado (A que no te vas) (RCA 1976)
• Rocío Jurado (Columbia 1976)
• De ahora en adelante (1978; ES:gold)
• Canta a México (1979)
• Por derecho (1979)
• Ven y sígueme (1981)
• Canciones de España (1981; ES:gold)
• Como una ola (1981; ES:gold)
• Y sin embargo te quiero (1983)
• Desde dentro (1983)
• El amor brujo (1985)
• Paloma brava (1985; ES:gold)
• Hasta La Última Gota (1987; ES:gold)
• ¿Dónde estás amor? (1987; ES:gold)
• Canciones de España (Ineditas) - A mi querido Rafael de León (1988)
• Punto de partida (1989; ES:gold)
• Rocio de luna blanca (1990; ES:gold)
• Nueva navidad (1990)
• Seville (1991)
• Como las alas al viento (1993; ES:platinum)
• La Lola se va a los puertos (1993)
• Palabra de honor (1994; ES:gold)
• Con mis cinco sentidos (1998; ES:gold)
• La más grande (2001; ES:platinum)
• Yerbabuena y nopal (2003)
• Romances (2013)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		IT	Latin
1979	Ese hombre Señora	IT50 (1 week) IT	-	Chart entry in ES only in 2009
1986	Vibro Paloma Brava	-	Latin8 (6 weeks) Latin
	Paloma Brava Paloma Brava	-	Latin45 (1 week) Latin
1987	Donde estas amor Donde estas amor	-	Latin43 (1 week) Latin
	Quien Te Crees Tu Donde estas amor	-	Latin14 (12 weeks) Latin
	Esta Noche Gano Yo Donde estas amor	-	Latin28 (9 weeks) Latin
1988	Amor De Noche Donde estas amor	-	Latin10 (21 weeks) Latin
1993	Cupid Callado Como Las Alas Al Viento	-	Latin20 (10 weeks) Latin	with Ana Gabriel
	Amigo Amor Como Las Alas Al Viento	-	Latin24 (5 weeks) Latin	with José Luis Rodríguez González

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Filmography

• La Lola se va a los puertos (1993)
• Sevillanas (1992)
• El amor brujo (1986)
• La querida (1976)
• Una chica casi decente (1991)
• Lola la piconera (TV film, 1991)
• En Andalucía nació el amor (1966)
• Proceso a una estrella (1966)
• Los guerrilleros (1962)

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Spain (Promusicae)	12 × gold12	4 × platinum4th	960,000	promusicae.es ES1 ES2 ES3 ES4
All in all	12 × gold12	4 × platinum4th

Web links

• Rocío Jurado in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Spanish flamenco biography ( Memento from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: ES US