Carmen Sevilla

**María del Carmen García Galisteo** (16 October 1930 – 27 June 2023), known professionally as **Carmen Sevilla**, was a Spanish actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s. In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter, working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

A matsayinta na 'yar wasan kwaikwayo, tana da matsayi a fina-finai da yawa, ciki har da Imperial Violets (1952), wanda aka zaba a matsayin mai ba da Kyautar Kwalejin Vengeance (1958), Don Juan (1956), da Searching for Monica (1962). Ta kuma taka rawar gani a fina-finai na Turanci ciki har da King of Kings (1961) da Antony da Cleopatra (1972). A matsayinta na mawaƙa, ta saki fiye da goma sha biyar studio albums da kuma mutane da yawa da kuma tarawa.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi María del Carmen García Galisteo a unguwar Heliópolis ta Seville a ranar 16 ga Oktoba 1930, 'yar mawaƙa  da Florentina Galisteo Ramírez, kuma 'yar'uwa ce ta' yan uwa uku.[es] Shekaru da yawa daga baya ta bayyana cewa shekarar haihuwarta ta kasance 1931, saboda dole ne ta kara karin shekara ga shekarunta don ta iya aiki a baya kuma ta bi ka'idojin aiki. Bayan Yaƙin basasar Spain, iyalin suka koma Madrid, inda mahaifinta da kakanta suka yi aiki a matsayin mawaƙa don fina-finai na Concha Piquer da Imperio Argentina . 

Yayinda yake yaro, Sevilla ta riga ta janyo hankalin zane-zane kuma nan da nan ta fara raira waƙa da rawa. A zahiri, tana da shekaru goma sha biyu, ta tafi kan mataki a karo na farko tare da Estrellita Castro, tare da wasan kwaikwayon Rapsodia española, tare da Paquita Rico.  Castro ta zama uwargidanta mai fasaha, wacce ta sadu da ita lokacin da Carmen ta tafi ta dauki wasu wasikun mahaifinta zuwa gidan wasan kwaikwayo. Ba da daɗewa ba ta zama wani ɓangare na kamfanonin wasan kwaikwayo na El Príncipe Gitano da na Paco Reyes .  A cikin shekarun 1940, ta fara karatunta a Conservatory of Music da kuma a cikin aji na rawa.

## Ayyuka

Sevilla ta fara fim a 1946 tare da shirin fim din Hombres Ibéricos kuma tare da rawar da ta taka a Serenata española a 1947.  A wannan shekarar ta shiga gasar Miss Spain. Ta fara taka rawa a fim din 1948 a Jalisco Sings a Seville .  Ta tashi zuwa shahara ta zo ne tare da rawar da ta taka a cikin The Troublemaker (1950) tare da Tony Leblanc .  Daga nan sai ta zama daya daga cikin shahararrun kuma mafi yawan taurari na fina-finai na Mutanen Espanya.

A shekara ta 1952, ta fito a cikin Imperial Violets tare da Luis Mariano .  Sevilla ta fito a shekarar 1958 a fim din Juan Antonio Bardem Vengeance, fim na farko na Mutanen Espanya da za a zaba don Kyautar Kwalejin don Mafi kyawun Fim na Harshen Ƙasashen waje. Ta kuma buga Maryamu Magadaliya a fim din Nicholas Ray na King of Kings (1961). 

Ta kuma kafa kanta a matsayin mawaƙa godiya ga waƙoƙin da ta yi a fina-finai. Ta fito da kundin studio sama da goma sha biyar, tare da waƙoƙi da yawa da mijinta na lokacin Augusto Algueró ya kirkiro, gami da coplas, Boleros, da tangos, kuma ta yi su a kan mataki da talabijin. A ranar 3 ga watan Janairun 1965, ta fara fitowa a gidan talabijin na Amurka a kan The *Ed Sullivan Show*, inda ta yi waƙoƙin "Mis noches de Madrid" da "Estando contigo", dukansu Algueró ne ya kirkiro.

Godiya ga shahararta, ta kuma fito a cikin manyan kamfen ɗin talla, gami da tallan talabijin na farko na Coca-Cola a Spain da kamfen ɗin kayan gidan Philips inda ta raira waƙar flamenco-Yeyé jingle.

A shekara ta 1972, ta buga Octavia a fim din Charlton Heston na Turanci *Antony da Cleopatra.* . Ta kuma fito a cikin No es bueno que el hombre está solo (1973), Nadie oyó gritar (1973), da *Beatriz* (1976).  Ta yi ritaya daga yin wasan kwaikwayo a ƙarshen shekarun 1970, inda ta yi fim na karshe a fim din Rostros na 1978.

## Rayuwa da mutuwarsa

Carmen Sevilla ta auri mawaƙa kuma mai gudanarwa Augusto Algueró, wanda ta sadu da shi a 1956 yayin yin fim na The Taming of the Shrew, a ranar 23 ga Fabrairu 1961 a cikin Cathedral-Basilica na Zaragoza na Our Lady of the Pillar .  An haifi ɗansu guda ɗaya, Augusto José, a shekara ta 1964. Ma'auratan sun sake aure a shekara ta 1974. Carmen Sevilla ta sake yin aure a 1985 ga Vicente Patuel, wanda tare da ita suka zauna a wani gona kusa da Herrera del Duque har zuwa mutuwar Patuel daga ciwon zuciya a shekara ta 2000.  

A shekara ta 2012, an sanar da cewa tana cikin "mataki mai zurfi" na Cutar Alzheimer, wanda aka gano ta da shekaru uku da suka gabata. A shekara ta 2015, an ruwaito cewa ba ta san gidanta ba. A shekara ta 2015, ta tafi zama a gidan kula da tsofaffi a Aravaca, Madrid .  A cikin 2022, ɗanta ya ba da sanarwar cewa cutar Alzheimer ta mahaifiyarsa ta riga ta kasance a irin wannan matakin da ba ta san shi ba kuma ba za ta iya tunawa da aikinta na fasaha ba.