Michael Romano He is going through a moment of deep pain due to the death of Mercedes Lopez Paredeshis lifelong partner and mother of his only daughter, Paola. According to what the renowned stylist had reported, meme, as everyone called his wife, was 85 years old and had been fighting a severe illness. His death hit the family environment as much as that of the show, which expressed condolences to the coiffeur and his inner circle.
Although his condition was delicate, the news came out from a publication of Graciela BorgesThe great Argentine actress, a friend of Romano and his family, uploaded a photo of Mercedes to her Instagram stories with a farewell message: “You will be in my heart forever, I love you“, wrote Graciela, mentioning the stylist and her daughter in the post.
In a recent interview, and while talking about his controversy with Susana Gimenez, his historical muse, Romano had referred to the delicate painting of Mercedes. “My wife is very, very sick. The two things add up to me. I continued working because I have a family to support, I have a daughter, a granddaughter. And I will continue working until the day she dies on me,” he emphasized weeks ago in statements to Very early in the morning (The thirteen).
In THE M (America), shared the information with a brief review of the love story that has been going on for more than 65 years and that was born by chance. She worked as a babysitter near a hair salon in Villa Urquiza. Unknowingly, she was about to enter a new life, in which she remained until the end of it. “A girl came and I told her ‘stay at the hairdresser, they’re going to do your hands.’ I cut her hair once, twice, three times and started dating her“, the coiffeur told Myriam Bunin on her program With style.
Mercedes started working as a manicurist but her beauty made the salon too small for her. The path to modeling or acting seemed inevitable. “We went to a contest that we listened to on a big radio station,” Romano continued. The magazines of the time were looking for Miss Photogenic and Meme was shortlisted from among 1,800 girls. Six months passed, she continued to go through the rounds and was among the ten who made it to the final. And when Miguelito He had lost hope, he heard his girlfriend’s name amid trumpets of joy.
Miguel and Mercedes never separated again, and their work opened the doors of fame for him, a path that began with Tita Merello and was then visible to everyone. meme She saw the most impressive figures of the national show business pass through her husband’s hands. Susana and Graciela, of course. But also Nélida Roca, Isabel Sarli, Moria Casán and the names go on. “Mercedes was never jealous of my work, she was always very humble,” she said. Miguelito to sum up his eternal companion.
Mercedes was born in Spain and arrived in the country at a very young age, fleeing the civil war, like so many compatriots of that time and with her family scattered. She first settled in Belgrano to kill time, until they all managed to join together in Villa Urquiza. And in an interview with La Nación, she gave her version of the encounter that changed her life.
“I worked as a nanny in a doctor’s house and at the same time, I started studying flamenco at a dance school. I loved that dance, I had been dancing the jota since I was very young and it was my dream to continue learning. One afternoon, in that same place, I ran into Miguel, who used to do gymnastics. We were two teenagers, he was 18 years old and I was 14. He asked me what he did, I told him that he took care of children, that he loved flamenco. ‘Come work at my hair salon,’” he told me.
She accepted and entered a world in which everything was yet to be written. While she was doing manicures, Mercedes admired the professionalism and passion with which Miguel worked. Soon they became a couple and never separated again. They married in 1958, and she witnessed how Urquiza’s improvised atelier mutated into the salon where the greatest names in show business paraded. And she was a key part of that machinery, which she maintained until she could no longer do so.
