Concha Márquez Piquer

 

RIP Concha Márquez Piquer, Argentina born singer and actress Concha Márquez Piquer died in Madrid, Spain on October 18, 2021. She was 75. Born on December 31, 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was the daughter of the renowned bullfighting figure Antonio Márquez and the famous singer Concha Piquer. She was hired by Columbia records with which she recorded several albums. The following year, 1971, she wanted to present herself as an actress and for this she chooses a book about La Bella Otero, written by the author Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, its title: One million roses. It is a musical comedy, which it is presented at the Maravillas Theater in Madrid, remaining on the bill for more than six months. During the next four decades she focused her career as a singer touring Europe and Mexico but she never reached the popularity of her mother.

Concha appeared in one Euro-western “Yellow Hair and Fortress of Gold” (1984) as the gambling woman).