Few artists have marked a country like Manolo Escobar to Spain. The singer became a symbol for several generations thanks to his songs and his natural sympathy. Despite the fact that in his work he already left several brushstrokes about his private life, his daughter Vanessa Escobar has explained in an interview on the COPE network the curious story of her wedding.
Manolo Escobar married Anita, a German woman with whom he was more than 54 years. The wedding took place just six months after they met on the Costa Brava. Curiously, when they both met, they could hardly interact with each other, since Anita only spoke German and Escobar Spanish. However, that was not an impediment for the couple to fall in love and form a tandem that would never be separated again.
Also, when the two first met, Anita had her hair dyed jet black, something that was fashionable in Germany at the time and which hid her true blonde hair. “My father used to say ‘my wife cheated on me, she thought she was marrying me to a brunette,'” Vanessa explained with a laugh.
However, when Manolo Escobar met the one who would become his wife, he was already engaged. The artist had a girlfriend for 6 years, which almost ended the wedding aspirations. Finally, the couple got married in Germany and returned to Spain for the singer to continue his musical career, which would ultimately become successful.
Years later, the couple adopted Vanessa and thus the family was formed that Spain fell in love with for so many years. In 2023, it will be 10 years since the passing of the iconic singer. To celebrate, the family is about to open a tribute museum to the artist.
“Many people continue to come to the house in Benidorm because they want to take a photo in the place where he lived. They write to me through networks to find out where they can leave flowers for him,” Vanessa Escobar pointed out in the interview. In addition, she has explained that he keeps the ashes of his father and his mother: “My father wanted his ashes to be thrown at the Camp Nou. But my mother told him no”, she has confessed between laughs .
