‘Blood ties’ (La 1, 11:00 p.m.) dedicates its program this week to Raphael. The singer has been on stage for more than six decades and has no signs of retiring. “My mother gave birth to me as an artist, I will die on stage. I do not conceive my life in any other way than singing. I sing because I have to sing“It’s what I know how to do and not badly and people have a good time with me,” says the one from Linares. He is an artist and always has been. At just four years old he was already the star of the school choir.
During the broadcast of ‘Lazos de sangre’ there will be a review of the career of this musical prodigy, in addition to narrate the most unknown episodes of his personal life. Some that range from his marriage to Natalia Figueroa, the woman with whom he has raised three children, to his rivalry with Julio Iglesias. Others join the regular collaborators to give their testimony. Among these well-known faces are Abraham Mateo; the politician Carmen Calvo; the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla; the model Remedios Cervantes and the journalist Rosa María Calaf. Also José Bonohis ex-in-law.
The relationship between the former president of the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha and former Minister of Defense and the singer comes from afar. Raphael’s son, Manuel Martos, and José Bono’s daughter, Amelia, were married on June 27, 2008 in a grand wedding. It was celebrated in the church of the Tavera Hospital in Toledo. Between the almost 700 guests who attended the meeting, there was the best of politics and music. At the banquet, which was held at El Cigarral del Santo Angel Custodi, were the actress Lola Herrera, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, the Palatchi (owners of Pronovias), Manuel Colonques (Porcelanosa), the Chavarri sisters, Toni Acosta…
Together They formed a large family of four children, Jorge, Manuel, Gonzalo and Jaime, with whom they made José Bono and Raphael grandparents. Although they have always shown that they love each other, Amelia Bono and Manuel Martos separated amicably after a impasse former. Then, the politician’s daughter was with another man.
They tried give yourself a second chance, but things did not go as they expected. Now, they are well-matched exes. “We are all really a big family. There is no problem and everything is going to be fantastic. We get along wonderfully. We love each other very much. Let’s continue as we are and how we are, we are phenomenal. Happiness is lived as each one wants in his family“, expressed Manuel Martos before the press.
Much more than in-laws
These two great families were already united long before they fell in love. They even spent summers together. In fact, everyone wanted there to be something more than just a courtship between Amelia Bono and Manuel Martos. Raphael himself said this when José Bono accompanied him to the opening of his House Museum in El Pósito. He assured that they would soon become “lucky in-laws.” “I’m so excited. Also, this museum It will continue to grow because I am still active. It is a great detail that Pepe has been with us. We were friends before and now, we are family. We are ‘lucky’ in-laws, as he says,” said the man from Linares before his families joined together.
The separation has not made a dent in the close relationship they maintain. They remain as intimate as ever. As a curiosity, both José Bono and Raphael share the same hair specialist to maintain their hair. They go to one of the best hair clinics in Spain: the Serrano Medical Unit center, located in Madrid.
José Bono, one of Raphael’s pillars in his worst moment
Raphael not only has him as a family and they share grandchildren, but he will never forget that he was by his side in one of the worst moments of his life. She accompanied him when he had a kidney transplant in 2003 as a result of liver cirrhosis that almost cost him his life. “I have to say that Pepe was one of the most constant people in my house when I was in the process of waiting for an organ. He was going to see me a lot. I have always been very grateful to him. He behaved wonderfully,” he confessed in ‘Interview with the letter’ from RTVE.
