Raphael Biography

It is unlikely that when this boy was born, who, according to his father, “shouted as if he had seven pairs of lungs,” someone believed that he would become the pop idol of Spain, Latin America, and then conquer the whole world. When Rafael was still very small, his parents moved to Madrid, to the apartment of his father's aunt. They lived very modestly. In addition to Raphael, the parents had three more sons: two elders and one youngest.

The father’s earnings were not enough to give good education to all children. Already at four years old, Rafael spoke in the choir of one of the parish schools in Madrid, where his parents gave.

Here he was allowed to study for free, his magnificent voice was the study for study. Here Miguel Rafael Martos Sanchez has always salted the full name of our hero and demonstrated outstanding vocal abilities. True, he was repeatedly excluded from school for pranks, but immediately returned back, because even then his voice attracted many parishioners and brought a considerable income of the church.

The parishioners, visiting the temple of God, were now guided by the desire not only to pray to the Lord, but also to listen to the voice of a gifted boy. When Rafael was only 9 years old, he took first place at the international competition in Salzburg, where he received a prize for the best children's voice. At sixteen, he firmly decided to become a singer.

At first, the parents were against it. But after some time they retreated, having come across the adamance of his son. Soon, the father himself, as a true Spaniard, an artist in his soul, taught his son to accompany the songs with the movement of his hands, that is, the art of plasticity. A year later, Rafael had already earned his bread with singing. First, speaking in night cabarets, then in small concert halls.

Soon he was offered to star in the cinema. The first film is Gemini. The role is small, but it doesn’t matter, he believed. The main thing is to appear on the screen! The first great success came to him in the year. Rafael took part in the 4th competition of the Spanish song in Benidorm, which is extremely prestigious at that time. He performed several songs, and with the song “Llevan” he won the prize of the best performer.

The remaining songs received the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th 9th place, respectively. Before that, no one had ever given solo concerts in Spain. For the first time, Rafael did it. It was the move of the Va-Bank. All the savings of Raphael went to his organization. Many “well -wishers” said: “This solo concert of Raphael is the beginning of its end. He will fail. " But he did not fail.

The crowded hall chanted Bravo. The concert was held with a complete full house, and this success was the absolute fact of the biography in the film "Cuando Tu No Estas". Then the successes that brought him great glory and years, his speeches at Eurovision contests, followed. He did not take first place, but these were honored 7th and 6th place. For Spain, he became a national hero.

Pretty soon interesting proposals, contracts, projects followed. He is still invited to act in films. In total, Rafael starred in ten films, nine of them are musical. The film “Let them talk” had a tremendous success in our country. You can find out about all films with the participation of Raphael, watch personnel from them and get acquainted with the plots here. During his life, Rafael recorded almost a hundred discs with his discography on our website, many of which were published repeatedly in many countries and became golden several times.

Currently, Rafael is the owner of hundreds of golden discs more than dozens of platinums of more than 50, and in the year the artist was awarded a unique “uranov” disk - for 50 million. Among Raphael there are many national and international awards. You can find most of them on this page. Here we will say two words about the most important, in our opinion. Four prizes “For the best concert of the year”, awarded by the Association of Theater Critics of New York.

Rafael is the first Spanish-language artist who was dedicated to the Honorary Star on the Boulevard of Glory in Miami. Rafael’s no less honorary awards include the fact that some theaters in different countries of the world prefer to open precisely by the performance of Raphael. Four times, Rafael was awarded an invitation to the most serious song festival on the entire American continent in Vinya del Marie.

At the insistence of this audience -Mostruo, Raphael was awarded the highest prizes of the festival -3 silver and 5 gold torches, and in and in the GG. Usually this prize is not intended for invited artists, but for the contestants, but in the year, the audience of the festival, the hall holds about 20 thousand. If we talk about Spanish awards, it is impossible to list them, of course.

First of all, we need to recall the two cities whose streets are named after Raphael. One of the streets of this city was named after him. And in the summer of the same year on the house where he was born st. DOCTOR, 4 installed a sign with the inscription: "Association of friends of Rafael ...". This is not only a place for Rafael's friends, but also a kind of museum dedicated to the beloved artist.A year later, in July, in another city - ASTIPON, the coast of Costa del Sol was also named after Rafael.

In Rafael, he became a man of the year in his dear Linares. The man of Spain in November in November, the Mexican National Lottery released a lottery ticket dedicated not to a citizen of Mexico, but a foreign artist for the first time! This ticket is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the artistic activity of Raphael - the big anniversary, which Rafael, notes in the year.

Rafael is an artist to the brain of bones. Records of discs, television and radio broadcasts are only one side of his artistic activity. The main thing for him is perhaps live concerts. Every year, Rafael gives dozens, or even hundreds of solo concerts with which he travels to different countries of the world. It is in concerts that he manifests himself not only as a singer, but also as a true actor, since each of his songs is a real small performance.

Rafael performs many of his songs, offering the audience his own dance arrangement. He dances perfectly, in Spanish incendiary. In addition, a complete return and relaxed communication with the public always impresses the audience. The main role of Raphael was the very famous director Luis Ramirez. Rafael played this very difficult role and sang simply brilliantly. The press and the public appreciated the artist’s skill very high.

A year later, the performance was shown in Barcelona, ​​and then in Valencia. The same performance with the participation of another artist in the leading role in Spain did not have such success, and the idea to resume his show again with Raphael can be fully implemented. Kroma, thoughts about participation in another, no less vivid musical performance, also originated in the artist’s head.

Apparently, he already has a worthy offer. By the way, is Rafael a name or a pseudonym? Both. His name is Miguel Rafael Martos Sanchez. His family: Natalia Figeroa, his wife, from the aristocratic family of the Marquis, a journalist by profession. They have been married for more than 35 years, since July the wedding was held in full a secret from all outsiders. It did not take place in Spain, but in Italy, in Venice, in one of the favorite cities of Raphael, where he from time to time goes for several days to relax with his family if free time falls.