Blanquita Suárez (1894 - 1983)
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"Ha muerto Blanquita Suárez"
Retrieved 16 February 2013 . was a Spanish singer and actress. She was the subject of several drawings and an oil painting by
Picasso.
Life and career
Suárez was born in
San Sebastián to family that had been in show business for several generations. Her father was a
baritone singer and her mother sang in a
zarzuela chorus. Her grandfather was a prompter at the
Apolo Theatre and her younger sister, Cándida Suárez, was a well-known
soprano whose career was at its height the 1930s and 1940s.
She began her stage career at the age of 12 when she appeared in
Puerto de la Luz. She worked as a cabaret singer as well as performing in
revue
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s,
operettas, and comic zarzuelas.
Rafael Adam Baiges (1886 – 1952) composed "El
fado
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Blanquita" in 1918 expressly for her.
Later in her life, she appeared in character roles in films.
Picasso may have first seen her as possible model for his paintings when she was performing in the theatres and cabarets of Barcelona which he frequented at the time. His sketches of her are conserved in the
Picasso Museum in Paris and his 1917 oil painting of her is held in the
Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
[Martín, Cristina (6 February 2013)]
"The inhabitants of the museum: Blanquita Suárez"
Official blog of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
She had a daughter, Teresa Mora, out of wedlock on April 5, 1928.
Teresa Mora was raised by her father Juan Mora in Barcelona, Spain. She showed a talent for singing at an early age and began singing professionally at the age of thirteen, went on to become an international singer through the 1940s and 1950s, and moved to the US in 1960.
Stage performances
*''El sobre verde'' with the song "Soy garçon, çon, çon… con el pelo cortao"
[Fundació el Molino]
"Blanquita Suárez"
Retrieved 16 February 2013 .
* ''La Blanca'' with the song "Moreno tiene que ser"
* ''Suspiros de España'' with the song "Ojos verdes"
Filmography
* ''Aventura'', by Jerónimo Mihura (1942)
* ''Rojo y negro'', by
Carlos Arévalo
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He won the silver medal in the Men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
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(1942)
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The Violet Seller
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'', by
Luis César Amadori
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(1958)
* ''La verdad'' (1917)
* ''La chica del gato'' (1943)
* ''Fútbol, amor y toros'' (1929)
* ''¡Che, qué loco!'' (1953)
* ''El Bandido generoso'' (1954)
* ''Fray Escoba'' (1961)
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Spanish musical theatre actresses
Spanish vedettes
1894 births
1983 deaths