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Ángela Molina, lessons on the art of remembrance

Did you live among the great figures of the twentieth century, is there any characteristic that unites them?
«The passion for life, and the commitment it entails. That kind of vision you have when you want to discover the deepest part of yourself “.

What is the meeting that has marked you the most?
“Definitely the one with my father.”

Your favorite Antonio Molina song?
«Tell me what reasons do you have. It is recorded with guitar and the rhythm marked by the heels of a flamenco dancer. Dad has a tone in his voice that I’ve never heard in any other piece, he’s unique. That moment and that precise need. Every time I hear it it breaks my heart. It is magnificent. I also like them very much Hazel water e A white dove…».

Would it have been welcomed at home not to devote himself to art?
“Everything was well seen if one felt it in his own way, and it made him feel good.”

When did you realize you wanted to be an actress?
“I really don’t remember it anymore.”

Her memory goes back as far as possible, to the point of remembering herself «as a child, very fond of poetry, of the classics. I read Colette, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov or Cervantes, with very few tools to understand them. And yet, I let my head fill my head with those people who were giving me the opportunity to know them, and to know myself through worlds that I felt unknown, but that I knew were real, because they were human ». A passion, that of reading, which he inherited from his mother, Ángela Tejedor. “She was a woman with a great sense of justice. Intelligent, enterprising, he knew he had to be responsible for the family, because my father was dedicated to his audience, and he succeeded in his brave and, at the same time, a bit naive way of functioning “, reveals the actress, the which she believes that the love story of her parents, who met when she was 14 and he was 17, “would be perfect for making a series or a few movies.”

Antonio Molina, one of the most popular singers of the 50s and 60s of the twentieth century thanks to hymns such as I am a miner O Goodbye to spain and movies like The fisherman of couplets, Juan Simón’s daughter e That voice is a mine, based on his own story, it took him six months to walk to Madrid from Málaga. Before triumphing in the world of song he worked as a milkman, upholsterer and bricklayer, even though he has always dreamed of being a bullfighter. “Like so many fathers of humble origins, without training, and who then suddenly have the right means, he wanted to give us an excellent education, a culture. Just think that he learned to read at 17, when he started dating my mother, thanks to the teachings of the mayor of Fuencarral, my maternal grandfather. The truth is that my father was taught everything quite late, except to breathe. So, as a reaction to this, I was reading the Don chisciotte when I was eight, without understanding anything, and I was studying French and I had a private teacher who guided me in reading », continues the actress. That teacher was Tona Radeli, the prima ballerina of Antonio Molina’s company. «An elegant and very cultured woman who once a week taught me about the classics. I came back from school very tired, I just wanted to have a snack, to pee, and instead she was waiting for me with The thousand best poems of the Castilian language. Tirso de Molina and Quevedo were his favorite authors. I also studied classical and Spanish dance, my younger sisters Paula and Mónica piano and solfeggio ». “All the sons of Antonio Molina spent their days learning things,” the writer Vicente Molina Foix revealed at the time.

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