Maria Jimenezwho died this morning at his home in Seville, will take a posthumous ride in a horse-drawn carriage through his Triana neighborhood, with which his family will fulfill one of the last wishes of the artist.

This has been indicated by the Seville City Council, where the Apeadero Hall is being conditioned to install the funeral chapel. The family of María Jiménez is now deciding when this walk will take place, before or after the placement of the coffin in the City Hall. The church of Santa Ana de Triana, The neighborhood where the artist was born and died, will host a mass for María Jiménez, the Sevillian singer, dancer and actress who died this morning at the age of 73 at 12 noon this Thursday.

The artist died at her home in Triana and the mortal remains were transferred to the SE-30 funeral home in Seville while the funeral chapel is being prepared in the consistory. María Jiménez was recognized in 2022 with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.

Politicians and artists remember María Jiménez as a “brave woman”

The singer, recognized in 2022 with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, has been remembered by the acting Minister of Equality Irene Montero as the woman who gave voice to “it’s over” – alluding to his popular song – in the face of machismo “when it was not easy at all, survivor of gender violence, strong, brave and joyful. It leaves open paths for us and a valuable example for many women. May Maria Jimenez fly high.”

In the same sense, the Acting Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero has lamented the death of the Sevillian artist María Jiménez, whom it has described as “a brave and free woman”, who was “an icon of the transition and the defense of Andalusia”, a “genuine voice and an indomitable Triana woman who leaves a musical and human legacy that will last forever.

The writer Lucia Etxebarría He recalled the “wonderful autobiography of María Jiménez in which she recounts a life that I don’t know how many would have endured” and noted that she was an example of a “resilient woman. Olé ella”.

The singer pitingo She details her pain on her X account (formerly Twitter). “I spoke to her not long ago while on tour and I asked her how she was, she told me “Very good, and you my gypsy?” She made me call her by video call and sing it, I I knew I was very sick, but he never told me I’m sick, he didn’t want to worry anyone”. The artist assures that she is “one of the strongest and bravest women I have met in my life and already as an artist, what can be said, a great, unique, unrepeatable and brilliant woman, she was an artist’s artist”.