Carmen de Mairena
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Born | Miguel Brau Gou 15 March 1933 Barcelona, Spain |
Died | 22 March 2020 El Raval, Barcelona, Spain | (aged 87)
Occupation(s) | Cuplé singer, actress, sex worker, television personality, politician |
Political party | Coordinadora Reusenca Independent |
Carmen de Mairena (15 March 1933 – 22 March 2020) was a Spanish
Biography
Early years
Carmen de Mairena was born Miguel Brau Gou on March 15, 1933, in Barcelona, Spain.[7] In 1959, she debuted as a variety artist in various venues in Barcelona allowing her to gain some fame as a cuplé singer. She had a sentimental relationship with singer Pedrito Rico, which made the Francoist regime detain them many times. In the 1960s, due to the mistreatment suffered in prison, she developed an illness that prevented her from working in show business for a year. During this period she worked as a laborer with her father in Gavà.[8] After recovering, she acted together with other cupletistas of the time such as Antonio Amaya, Miguel de los Reyes, Pedrito Rico and Tomás de Antequera.
Transition and television fame
In June 1978, she announced her intention to transition into a woman.[3] She began presenting as a woman and received liquid silicone injections (done clandestinely) in her face, chest and hips, and she appeared in cross-dressing shows under the name Carmen de Mairena, in which she impersonated Sara Montiel and Marujita Díaz. This was not well received by her public, which prompted her to work as a prostitute in El Raval, where she lived a good portion of her life.[3][9] During the 1990s, she met then-interviewer Javier Cárdenas and she started a television career with him on shows such as Al ataque and Crónicas marcianas.[10]
In November 2006 and October 2008, she was detained in two macro-operations in
Death
Carmen retired in 2015 and moved to a
References
- ^ a b Fallece Carmen de Mairena a los 86 años de edad Archived 2020-03-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Carmen de Mairena muere a los 86 años por causas naturales (in Spanish)
- ^ ISBN 978-84-122617-2-1.
- ^ La risa entra en campaña (in Spanish)
- ^ Carmen de Mairena, una mujer "extra ordinaria" (in Spanish)
- ^ Carmen de Mairena: una vida llena de momentos agridulces y situaciones excéntricas (in Spanish)
- ^ "Copia archivada" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
- ^ Pierrot Memorias Transexuales. "Capítulo 1.º: El nacimiento de un imperio. Entrevista a Carmen de Mairena." (in Spanish)
- ^ Maltrato, abandono y prostitución: la desgraciada vida de Carmen de Mairena in El Mundo (in Spanish)
- ^ El pionero de la basura in elperiodicoextremadura.com (in Spanish)
- ^ "Los proxenetas del Raval comerciaban con mujeres rumanas 'vendidas' por sus novios." in elmundo.es. (in Spanish)
- ^ a b Congostrina, Alfonso L. (22 March 2020). "Muere la artista Carmen de Mairena a los 87 años". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 January 2021.