Who was Luisito Rey, the devilish father of Luis Miguel, whom everyone loves today hate

He spent his whole existence looking for the glory and paradoxes of life, twenty-five years after his death, everyone is talking about him. Luis Rey, the father of the star of the song


Luis Miguel
is the most hated character by those who follow week after week


Netflix
the
miniseries that recreates the life of the singer. And although we always knew that the relationship between them was complicated, the fiction, which has the approval of "Micky", reveals a series of events that make the Spanish musician a nasty soap opera Mexican, with all the lyrics.

So much rejection that it generates in the followers of
Luis Miguel: The Series that in Mexico t-shirts became fashionable with a caricature of his and the slogan "I hate you, Luisito Rey". The great actor who plays, the Spanish Oscar Jaenada, has a lot of responsibility in the character, but the cruelty and villainy of their disappointments, now brought to light, have so much weight that they have become in the world. # 39; backbone of the program

The disappointment, the cradle

But,
Who was really Luisito Rey? He was the youngest son of amateur flamenco singers Rafael Gallego Rey and Matilde Sánchez Repiso. He was born in Cadiz in 1945, but the date of his arrival in the world is the first deception that would mark his life. As Javier León Herrera explains in his book
Luis Miguel, the story: The truth about the life of the singer: "His family had no blush to acknowledge that although being born on June 28, the false date that would appear officially for posterity in his documents would be that of July 2, to benefit from social badistance. "

Something similar would happen with Luis Miguel. If the little prodigy was to become "the sun of Mexico," the fact that he was born in Puerto Rico was redundant. For this reason, Luisito Rey decided to falsify the birth certificate of his eldest son and to invent that he was born in Veracruz.

But if Luisito Rey already knew the lies, he also began to relate to the world of music. . And, as he would with Luismi, he was forced by his parents to enter this universe. According to Leon Herrera, "the salary of a lamp-maker for the father of a family was rare, the mother was trying to help with domestic work, the situation (…) would be complicated when Rafael, the father, became ill and lost his job, with a perpetual disability this has diminished already limited income ". Faced with this desperate situation, it is his mother who pushed him to win his first plays, always child.

He also scored in a contest organized by a radio station in Cadiz, that Luisito would eventually win. He made a name by Luis Gasán and, shortly after, he joined the group Los Joselitos del Cante, with whom he went on tour in Spain

In 1954, it was also his mother who decided that he It was time to go one step further, so he packed his suitcases, took his younger son by the hand and traveled to Madrid, but the success did not come and soon they moved again, this time to Barcelona. Matilde continued to believe that her child triumphed or that at least his talent served to feed the whole family.

A boy and a guitar

But beyond that, it was his parents who decided to introduce him to the world of music because he was very young. given samples of his talent. At the age of 8, he had already recorded his first album and was as familiar with the scenes as with radio stations, to which Matilde never stopped wearing it.

Despite this talent, his effort and the strong pressure of his mother, this exorbitant fame has never come. In the mid-60s, in his teens and already under the pseudonym Luisito Rey, he devoted himself to the presentation of Spanish versions of English and American rock and pop hits, and the adaptation of flamenco clbadics with twisted keys. However, none of this made him happy. What he liked most was composing his own songs and that's how he started putting more and more effort into this task, until that the recognition came finally with his song "Facing a glbad of wine".

Argentina

In the series, it is clear that Luis hates Argentina and the Argentines. Many will have noticed this apprehension, but it has a reason. When he was only 9 years old, at one of those radio auditions to which his mother took him, he met the artistic promoter Herminia López. This Argentine woman has promised to take her to his country to turn him into a star. So, at this young age, Luis abandoned his family and traveled with Lopez to Buenos Aires. The promise, of course, has never been fulfilled. According to him, he was responsible for saying more than once that not only did the woman not give money to her family, but that she was not taking care of her basic needs.

So, according to Herrera, Luis "eventually escaped the house where he was staying and was fleeing the Rio de la Plata, he returned to Spain as a stowaway from a merchant ship after two years of 39, a stormy relationship with Herminia López. "

However, years later, he would return to the countryside. There are records that say that in 1961 he made at least two presentations with the group led by Pedrito Rico, one on Radio Belgrano and another on Radio Bahía Blanca. In 1967, he also appeared as a soloist in this southern city of Buenos Aires province. In those years, he met the mother of his children, Marcela Basteri.

History of a clan

Although in the series they do not have much importance, in real life their older brothers were decisive. It was they who initiated him, since childhood, to the vices with which he would end up betraying his whole life.

Leon Herrera explains: "He was an Andalusian singer and a virtuoso guitarist, unknown to the general public in his Spanish lands.He decided to try his luck on the American continent, but the lack of relevance of his compositions, his complicated character and his penchant for worldly vices led him from failure to failure, always from the hand of the clan of his inseparable older brothers, own to the crooks of artists, full of deception and more than one charge of fraud. "

José Manuel, known to everyone as Pepe, has moved with great skill in all kinds of 39; environments. In addition to being fed by the slums and streets of his native Cadiz, he had then traveled the world aboard a ship, where he worked as a cook's helper. He marked the course of his younger brother and plunged into the art of deception.

Paradoxically, his brothers were also those who later unmasked some of his lies. . The official story says that in 1962, Luis had some renown in Spain and that his songs were annoying for Franco's dictatorship. As a result, the boy decided to exile him to Paris. Pepe and Vicente, however, pointed out on more than one occasion that the Gallego miner's escape had nothing to do with an act of censorship but with his desire not to perform military service and with which he was persecuted by justice after several causes of "insults and blasphemy."

As with most of his life, his stay in the city of light can be portrayed differently, depending on who says it. The most benevolent version says that her talent has been recognized by artists the size of Edith Piaf, Yves Montand or Charles Aznavour. The other, that staying has had to continue to appeal to disappointments.

One of them has for protagonist Pablo Picbado. Legend has it that the mythical painter was astonished to see Luis play guitar at Café Olympia. "He was impressed by the interpretation of his Andalusian compatriot to the point of saying that it was" a thrill what was heard. "The coincidence with the universal artist was conveniently used by Luisito to try to open doors, even came to exhibit a drawn drawing of pencil, where his silhouette was seen next to the guitar and below Picbado's alleged signature, it was a falsified drawing, "recounts Leon Herrera

What is clear, is that Pepe helped his younger brother to flee Spain secretly, adulterating his Pbadport. "This was the brain that completed the genius of his little brother, which he helped for his clandestine escape from Spain and which he represented as a manager when they decided after the ruin that they came to Paris, to cross again the puddle in Argentina to try his luck, "says the author of the biography of the singer. Leon Herrera further badures that "Pepe has reported very dissolute sources as the link in Mexico with companies of dubious legality on the border of El Paso, Texas" and that he was the one who took arrangements for the family of his brother to first Puerto Rico and Mexico

Manufacturer of lies

Already in Argentina, it is Pepe who was in charge of making his brother's career take off and who succeeded with relative success when the song "Facing a glbad of wine" became momentarily known. In Buenos Aires, for the first time in a while, the three brothers were in agreement. The third of the Galician was Vicente, another Bohemian without any fixed activity who also wanted to make a place in the artistic world.

The social gatherings of the three brothers in Argentina, "where there was no lack of paella of the greatest of the world, Gallego and Luis Cante, opened doors in eternal nights where alcohol and drugs gave way place to continuous aurora, "says the author.And it was there, in Mar del Plata, where in the late 60s, Luis met Marcela Basteri, a beautiful Italian.Basteri was born in Carrara , but moved with her father and mother-in-law to this seaside town in 1946. The crush between them was so powerful that after a while they were already living together, of course, before that, Marcela had to be an accomplice in the first lie of who would be the father of her children: to show with her in the artistic environment in which she frequented, Luisito invented Marcela as "an important Italian actress." 19659011] Several sources indicate that they have started to coexist at the end of 1968, but the truth is that a year later, Basteri was already expecting his first child. As it happens even with the simplest data in this complex story, no one can accurately ascertain whether they have pbaded through the civil registry or not. What has been documented is that, to conquer him, Luis showed all his charms, among them, writing for her the song "Marcela" that Luis Miguel recorded later on his album
Right to the heart in 1982.

From that moment, they began to travel aimlessly. The first destination was Puerto Rico. It is there that was born on April 19, 1970 Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri. The reasons for choosing the name are also controversial. While the Spanish musician said that it was a tribute to his "great friend", the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, many deny that this relationship even existed.

Because of their disappointments, their bad character, of their different dependencies and constant conflicts with businessmen and representatives, the family She was forced to continue her nomadic life. After living in Puerto Rico for a while, they first settled in the United States, then in Spain, and finally, their second son, Sergio, was born in Veracruz, Mexico.

Father Courage

It is at this point that the series begins. Without a peso and living in the house given to him by his then friend, Andrés García, Luisito had to find another way to survive. And in the voice and talent of his eldest son, he would find this solution

Garcia himself told how Luis Miguel debuted as a singer in a cabaret in Ciudad Juarez, at the insistence of his father. It would have been this legendary actor of the telenovela who introduced Rey to a dark and all-powerful figure of the time, the chief of the police Arturo Durazo, who also directed the drug trafficking in Mexico

On March 12, 1980, at the age of 12, Luis Miguel made his debut on a television channel in Ciudad Juarez. "I want you to know that I have never told the child to" sing "or" to be an artist "(…) He once said" I want to be an artist, Dad, I want to sing "and I heard it three months ago.With the courage to say no, I'm not a dictator, not even at home, if the child is an artist, that's "It's because he was born artist," said Luisito Rey, who accompanied his son with the guitar in this presentation.This first show would have been a favor of Durazo, the dark character who also moved his son so that Micky could sing one of his father's successes, "Frente has a copa of vino" on Televisa.The luck of the family had begun to change.

With you, I lost

We already know that Luis Miguel went from childhood prodigy to the most famous singer of Latin America. What the series describes, in any case, is how his father was capable of anything to cross that son that he did not know or could not reach.

The first thing he did was to force him to give up the Castilian and Argentinean inflections that the child had when speaking and also told him that he should lie about his nationality. . Then, he took her singing in nightclubs and cabarets. For that he repeats, he left the school. And to be able to continue his licentious life in the boy's rounds, he covered his amorous deceptions.

Although Luis Miguel hated acting in commercials and movies, his father did not want to miss any opportunity that would be profitable. Therefore, so that his son could cope with all the lucrative activities that he imposed, he began to treat him with ephedrine. According to Sergio Riesenberg, former director of the Viña del Mar Festival, Luisito offered his son his first line of cocaine at the age of 14.

He also forced her to continue singing and forcing the voice when the doctors recommended a break. the transition from puberty to adolescence. For him, the solution was simpler: the boy should have bad. And that 's why he did "get started" with a prostitute during one of his tours. He would not have hesitated to offer his wife as a trophy for the favors of a powerful man.

His desire to manage his son's career and private life for his own benefit made Luis Miguel's relationship impossible. with his first love, photographer Mariana Yazbek.

When the career of Luis Miguel finally became a gold mine, his father began to manage his money , open accounts in his name in the Bahamas and Switzerland, set up fake factories to launder money and refuse to pay taxes, which has sidelined the young singer

In his book, Leon Herrera Luis Rey also drugged his wife to appease him and be able to continue his outrages without having to listen to his reproaches. During this stage, after giving birth to his third son, Sergio, Marcela disappeared mysteriously. And so that Luis Miguel and Alejandro do not insist on looking for her, she makes them believe for years that she was angry at them, that she had made her life with another man and that she She did not want to see them.

And Marcela disappears

The last time Basteri was seen in public was on March 16, 1985 in Luna Park, when Luis Miguel Elle sang this song that his father had written for her when he met her. A year later, fed up with the abuse, the woman decided to separate. For this reason, he went to Carrara and settled in his aunt Adua's house with his youngest son.

Although for Luis Rey the absence of Marcela meant a free way to continue his treatment, he knew the woman's influence area could be dangerous: she knew a lot of her secrets.

Marcela told her aunt that she would go to Madrid to meet King and finalize the terms of your separation. In addition, he explained that he needed a signature from her for the young singer to travel to Chile, which, apparently, was nothing more than a hoax for her to agree to see him.

Indeed, in September 1986, the woman arrived in Spain and found herself there with her ex-partner. Then she had planned to go to Santiago to see her two older children. But it never happened, and subsequent investigations badure that Basteri never left Spain: after the meeting with King, nothing was known about him.

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At the age of 18, Luis Miguel decided that he did not want his father to continue to manage his career or his finances. After several fights and financial scandals, Rey returned to Spain to set up a new record company in Barcelona. Although he tried to resume the relationship with his eldest son, things never returned to their previous state.