“And we continue”: Raphael celebrates his 80th birthday with his wife, the aristocratic Natalia Figueroa who noticed the modest messenger and whom he married in a discreet wedding in Venice

Spanish singer Raphael has a birthday. This July 5, he completed eight decades of life, five of which he lived in the company of his first and only love Natalia Figueroa, who also became the mother of his three children.

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Miguel Rafael Martos Sanchez, his first name, he started his career in 1960 and to this day has no plans to retire. He is still active, planning concerts where he will conquer the public with his incredible voice and remember songs like “Yo soy aquel”, “Cuando tú no estás” and “Como yo te amo”.

Soon, exactly on July 12, he will enter into a 51-year marriage with a journalist and writer Natalia Figueroa. On this very same date, but last year, Raphael He left a tender tribute to his life partner on his Instagram profile.

“Today, July 14, 50 years since our big day! And here we go!” he wrote on the occasion of the celebration of their golden wedding anniversary with a photo of both of them standing hand in hand at the end of the ceremony held in Venice, reports La Nación.

The love story is surprising because of how it has lasted over time, so much so that the journalist The Pillar of Eyre He didn’t hesitate to review it on his blog “It’s not bad” published Lecturas, where he compared the fidelity of the Spanish artist with the fame of Julio Iglesias as a ladyboy and conqueror, to whom biographers attribute 2,300 wives.

The beginnings of Raphael and Natalia Figueroa

The journalist took advantage of the arrival of Raphael’s 80th birthday to recall his beginnings with Natalia Figueroa in 1970, an aristocratic intellectual, the daughter of a marquis whom he met when he already had at least a ten-year career as a singer behind him, although he came from a humble background who at the age of 10 worked as a deliverer.

“I have not seen a more intimate and tight couple in the art world,” Eyre said on his blog where he expressed the couple’s feelings out loud. “I fell in love with him because he is the most feminist man I have ever met,” Natalia admitted to the communicator in a pleasant conversation in the 80s.

According to the publication, Figueroa was a “modern girl in Madrid” who was credited with many romances “but nothing serious”, because she did not want to get married or lose her freedom, Pilar recalls today.

Since they met, the differences were noticeable because Raphael admitted from the first date that he doesn’t visit the house he has in Marbella because he doesn’t like the sun, but she loves him more than anything in the world. He admitted that he was about to get up and leave.

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Despite this, her interest in being an artist kept her going and they had a two-year courtship without anyone suspecting it. He sent her postcards from his tours in other countries and she patiently waited for his return.

Like any couple, they faced arguments followed by reconciliations until they finally decided to take the step together, and they did it with a discreet wedding in Venice so as not to “make a show”.

And indeed, that’s how they’ve maintained their relationship for five decades, in strict privacy and without giving much of a story.

They were never publicly known to have any disagreement or infidelity, which Natalia would never forgive, according to what Pilar admitted. (AND)