Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez ( Spanish: Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez , born May 5, 1943, Linares , Spain ), known as Rafael (Raphael) - Spanish singer with a wide range of voices and a peculiar manner of performing songs [ what? ] .
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| Birth name | ||
| Full name | Miguel Rafael Martos Sanchez | |
| Date of Birth | May 5, 1943 (aged 76) | |
| Place of Birth | Linares , Jaen Province, Spain | |
| A country |  Spain | |
| Professions | singer | |
| Genres | latin american pop | |
| Aliases | ||
| Labels | Hispavox , EMI , Sony Music Entertainment | |
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| raphaelnet.com | ||
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Filmography
- 3 Bibliography
- 4 See also
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Biography
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| Raphael's performance at the 2014 Vigna del Mar festival on YouTube | |
Born May 5, 1943 [1] in the city of Linares ( Jaen Province, Andalusia ). In 1946, his family moved to Madrid .
One of the first contemporary singers in Spain to enter the pop stages of the world. Rafael began to sing at the age of three, at the age of four he sang in the choir. In his homeland he is called the Nightingale and Divas of Linares . At the age of nine in Salzburg ( Austria ), his voice was recognized as the best in Europe .
Raphael gained immense popularity in Latin America . In 1975, he hosted his own television show, where he met and sang with prominent stars of the world. Together with his wife Natalia Figueroa, he also had his own radio program. He and his wife gave birth to children Jacobo, Alejandra and Manuel.
The music film “ Let They Speak ” ( 1968 ) brought the singer great popularity in the USSR. After such success, the Melody company, licensed by Hispavox (Spain) , released the double album Rafael Sings (C 04603-4, C 04605-6) in 1974, which was in high demand .
In addition, he holds 49 “platinum”, 327 “gold” discs and one “uranium”, symbolic keys to New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Miami .
Raphael continued his creative activity for many years. In 2009, he began a many-month tour of the world with the program "50 years on stage." As part of this tour, he also visited Moscow . Discs with the recording of this program became platinum in a number of countries .
Filmography
| Year | Russian name | original name | Role | |
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| 1963 | f | Twins | Las gemelas | singer |
| 1966 | f | When you are gone | Cuando tú no estás | Raphael |
| 1967 | f | At sunset | Al ponerse el sol | David Alonso |
| 1968 | f | Let them talk (film, 1968) | Digan lo que digan | Rafael Gandia |
| 1969 | f | Tomboy | El golfo | Pancho |
| 1970 | f | Angel | El angel | Angel |
| 1971 | f | Not saying goodbye | Sin un adiós | Mario leiva |
| 1973 | f | Born again | Volveré a nacer | Alex |
| 1974 | f | Raphael in Raphael | Rafael en raphael | |
| 1978 | from | Where does the road end | Donde termina el camino | Manuel |
| 1993 | tf | ¡Dale Loly! | ||
| 1999 | core | Mi novio es bakala | welder | |
| 2015 | f | My big night (in the Russian box office “Slaughter Light” ) | Mi gran noche | Alfonso |
Bibliography
- Raphael. What tomorrow? (in Russian). - Demeter, 2014.
- Alfredo Tocildo. Su nombre es Raphael (His name is Raphael). - 1969. - 288 p.
- Raphael Rusia y yo (Russia and I). - 1971. - article in the journal La Actualidad
- Jordi Cierra y Fabra, Martin J. Louis. Mitologia pop española (Mythology of Spanish Pop). - 1973.
- Raphael ¿Y mañana que? (What about tomorrow?). - Plaza & Janes Editores, SA, primera edición octubre, 1998 .-- 569 p.
- Raphael Quiero vivir (I want to live). - Ediciónes Temas de Hoy, SA (TH), 2005 .-- 220 p.
See also
- Raphael vuelve por Navidad - New Year's concert in 1969, TVE
- “El mundo de Raphael” - the first of five television programs of the series “Raphael World” (1975), TVE
- Rafael television series - interviews with the creators of the series, episodes of the film ( Antena3 TV company, 2010)
Notes
- ↑ At the beginning of his career, Rafael often called in an interview a different date - 1945. But in the book Linares y sus famosos (Linares and His Celebrities), published in 1971, a photocopy of Raphael’s birth certificate was published, showing his real date of birth, 1943. The same document can now be seen in the Raphael Museum in Linares.
Links
- Official site of the singer
- Website of Spanish singer-songwriters
- "My Raphael" - the first Russian site dedicated to Raphael, in Russian and Spanish.
- "Viva Rafael" - an encyclopedia site dedicated to the work of Raphael, in Russian and Spanish.
- Translations of Raphael's songs.
- Raphael Museum in Linares - a virtual tour.