Music producer and promoter Tomás Muñoz has left a million dollars in inheritance for the residence where he spent the last two years of his life. “We expected something, but not this,” they point out, between surprise and happiness, from the Jesús Nazareno Residence-Hospital in Villanueva de Córdoba. Muñoz is a native of this town in Cordoba, where he also died last August at the age of 88 in the aforementioned center.

In the residence in question, they still keep some of their things in their room, like a photo together with other artists. But what circulates the most are his anecdotes. Like that time she called the residence a certain Julio Iglesias… “He said I’m Julio,” says Tomás Buenestado, deputy director of the Jesús Nazareno Residence-Hospital.

Gabriel Duque, mayor of Villanueva de Córdoba, affirms that the producer “has been much described throughout his life“. The million dollars they inherit from him they will use it to improve and expand the residence. José Ignacio Gómez, member of the Jesús Nazareno Hospital Foundation, explains what they will do “small apartments for married couplesbecause people ask for it”. To the same thing that they already dedicated the half million more that he left them in life.

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Tomas Munoz He was born in Villanueva de Córdoba on April 24, 1934. After studying Humanities and Philosophy, At the age of 21, he settled in Paris. In 1958, residing in Mexico, he joined the music industry as co-founder of the independent firm gammaspecialized in the exploitation of national repertoires, of which he became general director two years later.

He was a music industry mogul. Promoter in Mexico of successful artists in the 50s. “In December 1969 I started the foundation of CBS Spain,” Muñoz recounted in an archive video. And it is that since 1970, he is the founder of CBS Spain and then Sony arrived.

He is the launcher of artists as important as Ricky Martin, Chayanne and Miguel Bosehe was the producer of Julio Iglesias, of Raphael, a friend of Lola Flores, Raffaella Carrá… But in his last years, he received the homage with a bust in Villanueva de Córdoba with the same emotion as in the middle of his career he had received those of these singers and the Latin music industry.