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Stroke: The couplet

"Being times couplet" . = "The year of Maricastaña" or "older than the cough." Wikipedia defines it thus: "The" couplet "is a musical style, light and popular, it can sometimes be quite rude and hot. The word comes from French couplet. Spelling couplet remained in Spain during the first quarter of the twentieth century, until adopted Hispanization of couplet. " We are therefore talking about a musical form that gained a great popularity in Spain and is distinguished by the double meaning of his letters, highly erotic, so this genre is also known as "peep couplet." Consuelo Portela, known as "Bella Chelito" became fashionable peep one of the most emblematic couplets: "The Flea," whose lyrics was rather trivial and no rough. The most important was the staging of the song. "La Bella Chelito" managed to raise the public of their seats for their special interpretation: the sensual shape with the moving on stage. While searching the flea, who allegedly had entered into a fold of her dress, "Beauty Chelito" is going to evolve little by little something from her dress, already transparent. Imagine the reaction of repressed men of the era, packed theater, before such shameless antics. The success was such that all employers are required as the artists who hired, he soon emerged on stage countless bad copies of "The Flea".

cuplés The letters were moving between the bold and brazen, between eroticism and obscenity, depending on who was his interpreter and what kind of audience were directed creations. Of course, to that success was resounding, the couplet had to be represented by a sensual, beautiful woman, and that the whole function was based more on the brilliance of body cupletista in his skills as a singer.

Besides "La Bella Chelito", there were other artists who came to surpass in fame, some of which even had a beautiful voice, like Consuelo Bello, "La Fornarina." While undoubtedly, the best known was Raquel Meller, more like what we now know as "popular singer" than a cupletista, because their songs were about more than love and had much less mischief than the old couplets. Raquel Meller acted in the best music halls in the world and said his Cache was even higher than that of Carlos Gardel. His greatest successes achieved with the two songs that have survived: "The violetera" and "reliquary" (the latter is still part of the repertoire of any self-respecting tonadillera). But it was a beautiful Mancha, Sara Montiel, which in 1957 got back popularize the couplet in Spain with the film "The final couplet." A fever attacked generations of young and not so young For almost two years were long queues at the premiere theaters in Madrid and Barcelona to see the film. By courtyards could be heard more or less successful versions singing maids while carrying chores. Although Sara Montiel had earned herself a name in Hollywood, our country became great star from "The last couplet, which, for better or worse, marked a watershed in his career.