María del Carmen García Galisteo was born in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain on October 16, 1931. Born in the Heliópolis neighborhood of Seville, she was the daughter of composer Antonio García Padilla and Florentina Galisteo Ramírez, and the eldest sister of three siblings. Decades later she stated that her year of birth was 1931, as she had to add an extra year to her age to be able to work earlier and comply with labor regulations. After the Spanish Civil War, the family moved to Madrid, where her father and grandfather worked as lyricists for the films of Concha Piquer and Imperio Argentina.
She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s. In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter, working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
As an actress, she had leading roles in numerous films, including “Imperial Violets” (1952), Academy Award nominee “Vengeance” (1958), “Don Juan” (1956), and “Searching for Monica” (1962). She also had supporting roles in English-language epic films including “King of Kings” (1961) and “Antony and Cleopatra” (1972). As a singer, she released over fifteen studio albums and numerous singles and compilations.
Carmen Sevilla married composer and conductor Augusto Algueró, whom she met in 1956 during the filming of “The Taming of the Shrew”, on 23 February 1961 in the Zaragoza's Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar. Their only son, Augusto José, was born in 1964. The couple divorced in 1974. Carmen Sevilla remarried in 1985 to Vicente Patuel, whom with she settled on a farm near Herrera del Duque until Patuel's death from a heart attack in 2000.
On June 26, 2023, it was made public that Sevilla had been hospitalized in serious condition at the Puerta de Hierro hospital in Majadahonda (near Madrid) on June 25, 2023, where she died on June 27th from complications of Alzheimer's. She was 92.
Carmen sang four songs and starred as Reyes Mendoza in the 1966 Euro-western “The Warriors of Pancho Villa”.
SEVILLA, Carmen (aka Carmelita Sevilla) (María
del Carmen García Galisteo)
[10/16/1931, Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain – 6/27/2023, Majadahonda,
Madrid, Spain (Alzeheimer’s] – actress, dancer, singer, daughter of composer
Antonio García Padilla sister of cinematographer, cameraman José García
Galisteo married to composer songwriter
Augusto Algueró (Augusto Algueró
Dasca) [1934-2011] (1961-1974)
mother of composer, Augusto Algueró Jr. (Augusto José Algueró
García) [1964- , married to farmer Vicente Patuel
[19??-2000] (1985-2000).
The Warriors of
Pancho Villa – 1966 [sings: “Carmen de Espana”, “La cruz de mayo”,
“La adelita”, “Jesusita en Chihuahua”]
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