Years pass, and the wrinkles have long since started to gain ground on his face, but Raphael, inaccessible to despondency, maintains an extraordinary passion, at 66, allows you to still be on the ball.
Toured almost two years to celebrate their golden wedding with music.
Will be held May 13 when his fifty years on stage in Murcia.
Raphael will perform at the Auditorio Victor Villegas Regional at 21:30 pm in Room Narciso Yepes, where will all these great successes, which have made him one of the great Spanish music.
"It was in 1960 when I looked to get the press card," says Raphael taking a look back half a century.
"I remember my first performance.
I went by bus to Leon to open a show of Juanito Valderrama.
There I began to struggle. "
In 2010, on tour and on stage, Raphael turns 50 in the world of professional music, although the story says that just four years and sang in scholae and nine won the award for "best child's voice in Europe "at the Salzburg Festival (Austria).
Half a century making a living on stage that also held with the album Raphael: 50 years later, which brought together a cast around artistic impossible to overcome.
There are 21 artists who sing a duet with Raphael 20 Songs undeniable and whose relationship is amazing, Alejandro Sanz, Joan Manuel Serrat, Ana Belen, Victor Manuel, Miguel Bosé, Rocio Jurado, Ana Torroja, Adamo ...
Raphael did not want the prizes, as he said in a recent statement only want to work the best.
"My best time is coming.
I have no retirement or expiration date.
The day I come on stage and can not give what I can now, I will leave for vacation, without drama, "says he would like to be remembered as" a good hard worker. "
Raphael has recorded over 50 albums in Spanish, Italian, French, German, English and Japanese, among other languages.
Has 326 gold albums, 49 platinum and one of uranium (over 50 million copies sold).
To celebrate this love affair with music, will undertake a tour in 2009 that will take you through a handful of countries.
The tickets can be purchased at the box office of the regional audience, phone 968 343 080 or online at www.auditoriomurcia.org
Source: Mar de Musicas