The tragic and mysterious life of Sergio, the "hidden" brother of Luis Miguel | Cuyo Newspaper

He witnessed, perhaps, the most difficult and important moments of Luis Miguel's intimate life. Although he was very small, he was still there. He was in the hotel room the day the artist had one of the last encounters with his father, the dreaded Luisito Rey, and after a great fight, they virtually cut off their relationship. He listened to arguments between his parents, who ended their relationship when he was only two years old. T was also present during Marcela Basteri's last trip to Spain, until she was no longer seen.

However, unlike Alejandro, the singer's other brother, Sergio Gallego Basteri had a life somewhat removed from the Mexican Sun and often seems to be somehow erased from his biography.

With the fury of the series produced by Netflix that reconstructs the life and work of The Unconditional performer, riddles around several members of his family multiply.

There are several episodes that show the mismanagement of the patriarch, the mistreatment that the mother receives and the adolescent intrigues of Alejandro, better known as Alex, while the figure of Sergio is virtually relegated.

The arrival of the world's youngest children Marcela Basteri and Luisito Rey was difficult. The couple was going through a great crisis that was developing parallel to the explosion of Luis Miguel's career.

They were in the mid-80s and the artist, with only 15 years old, had already achieved great success, with the hand of Discs Decide and Word of Honor. At that time, he had also starred in two feature films that, years later, he hated.

In the midst of this effervescence, Sergio arrived. A few days before her birth, Marcela Basteri had written a letter that reflected one way or another about how the family spent those hectic days.

"I am six months pregnant, I would have liked you to be with me but I do not know if you want to come (…) Alex is sending kisses, Micky is not going to be here. is never there, I'm with Alex and two girls working at my house, it's very big, it's two floors, "wrote the mother of El Sol de México to a relative who lived in Argentina.

"Shortly after sending this letter, an abortion attempt forced the entry of Marcela Basteri to the ABC Medical Center in Mexico City, also known as the" ABC ". English hospital, in Colonia Constituyentes, where she had an untimely birth, which brought Sergio Rey Gallego Basteri to the world, who with this name was registered in the civil register of the Mexican capital on May 17, 1984, with Paco Ibáñez and Roberto González as witnesses, "says journalist Javier León Herrera in his book Luis Miguel, history.

The newborn would take the name of his maternal grandfather, Sergio Basteri, a man who had never had a good relationship with Luisito Rey.

From this premature birth, the days of little Sergio would be accelerated and very hard. In 1985, the Gallego Basteri clan took advantage of Luis Miguel's trip to the San Remo Festival and his subsequent tour to visit Marcela's Italian parents. At that time, several relatives and close friends found the woman very deteriorated.

Because of his young age, Sergio went everywhere with his mother. Towards the end of this year, when the relationship between her and Luisito Rey was broken forever, the woman returned to Italy.

He stayed a few days and soon returned to Mexico. But nothing would be the same. After Luis Miguel turned 16 in 1986, the woman returned to Europe and never came back.

It was at this point that Luisito Rey began to circulate the rumor that his wife had gone away with another man

"She was with her family in Mbada-Carrara, where she came back with her young son, Sergio, and where she gradually recovered physically, "says Luis Miguel's biographer

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In August of the same year, Luisito Rey tried one last time to get closer to the mother of his children, who knew more and more his shady relationship with the money he was harvesting, while the success of Luis Miguel continued promotion.

Then he asked her to meet in Spain. Although the Basteri objected, Marcela decided to make the last attempt and travel to see the father of her children. From Pisa airport, he left, according to his family members later, with little Sergio in his hand.

Shortly after, already on Spanish soil, Marcela communicated with her parents. Sergio also spoke briefly on the phone with the Basteri.

"After that, he disappeared, the land swallowed, and since then, by the beginning of September 1986, there is not a single sign of life of the mother of Luis Miguel , "says Luis Miguel, the story.

Since then, the younger brother was in charge of Matilde Sánchez, his paternal grandmother. He spent his early childhood in Spain, far from his brothers and sporadically observing his father, who came and went with his eldest son.

When the working relationship between Luisito Rey and Luis Miguel was finally interrupted because the Mexican Sun was fed up with his father's manipulation, Sergio again saw a difficult scene when the star of the romantic song had already reached the majority

It happened during the summer of 1988, when they found the father and the son in a Madrid hotel to formalize the break in one way or the other way. ;another.

"Father and son remained alone in one of the compartments of the suite and Vesuvius broke out, and among the voices, a Luis Miguel was heard in front of his rooms, pronouncing sentences of pure pain ", explained the journalist Leon Herrera

Luis Miguel will seek since to visit his younger brother, avoiding at all costs to cross his father.

In 1992, after weeks of alcohol and drug abuse, Luisito Rey died in Barcelona. As we could see in the series, Luis Miguel was on tour in Latin America and finally traveled to give him his last goodbye.

Since then, Sergio was responsible for his paternal grandparents and, as we could see in the media, was somehow used by the Gallego, who started a brief war against Luis Miguel.

In particular, it is the uncle of the star, Vicente Gallego, who created a great scandal in the television programs of the time when he pointed out that the singer had forgotten his family . In October 1993, he took little Sergio in a magazine in which the boy sang a song of Luisito Rey, just as his older brother had already done.

With the use of Sergio's media, the fury of Luis Miguel and his relatives, who finally decided to make the arrangements for the boy to travel to meet his brothers on the American continent, was returned.

After the death of his paternal grandmother, Luis Miguel takes custody of his younger brother.

"But soon (the artist) realized that he did not have enough time to look after a 10-year-old child, so he asked Octavio Fonseca , aka El Doc, then his collaborator and family friend, who badumed the tutelage of Sergio, "informed the Mexican magazine Who.

Since then Fonseca has practically taken care of all the education of the young man, who pbaded between Mexico and Boston.

The boy was still in contact with his family and even went on holiday with the singer. But the bond cools and Sergio remains away from the media

In 2008, Sergio 's adventure in the world of music with the recording of a song under the title of Car Crash with a Mexican group called Decathlon

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Last year, the television show Despierta America conducted a survey and discovered that the youngest of the brothers Gallego Basteri lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, away from his famous older brother.

As explained by the magazine Who, Addis Tuñón, journalist of Despierta America, went to Sergio Gallego Basteri and who answered the call through a door was his guardian.

"Without giving reasons or giving precise dates, the doctor claimed that he had withdrawn all sorts of financial support from Luis Miguel's family, but he maintained that Sergio Gallego Basteri, 34, is a man." intelligent and hardworking, "detailed the publication.

"He studied here at the University of Guadalajara, at the School of Visual Arts, but he could not finish it because he had to work," said the doctor in the report.

"Sergio lives from what he can, from his work."

In the last few weeks, attention has returned to the forgotten Sergio.

In a new television interview, his tutor gave more details about the distance between the brothers when the child was about to begin tertiary studies.

"Sergio was already going to university, he was going to study law, even if he wanted to study anthropology, in one of those Luis Miguel had a situation with a partner (presumably Mariah Carey), Sergio and I saw a lot of things, it's that we have to agree with their partners, but we saw that there was not a hundred percent empathy between them, "said the doctor in reference to the singer with whom the Mexican Sun was in a couple.

From that moment, the artist and his brother would have distanced themselves and would have lost the fluid connection that they had formerly